Quotes and Sayings About Example

The professionals must set a good example.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti

#Example

The Lord has different names according to His different activities. For example, His name is Madhusüdana because He killed the demon of the name Madhu; His name is Govinda because He gives pleasure to the cows and to the senses
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

#Names #Giving #Example

Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what's going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten.
-- Abdallah II

#Country #Example #Different

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
-- Abraham Cahan

#Men #Fire #Example

When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise, for the redress of which, no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say, that, although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still while they continue in force, for the sake of example, they should be religiously observed.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Mean #Law #Example

The peoples of Islam will always be closer to us than, for example, France. (2nd April 1945)
-- Adolf Hitler

#Islam #Example #France

Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.
-- Adrian Bejan

#Two #Design #Example

Example is the best precept.
-- Aesop

#Wisdom #Example

A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Years #Example #Construction

My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target. The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
-- Akio Morita

#Creativity #Example #Apollo

Just because something happens to be legal does not make it moral, ethical or right. Abortion is perhaps one of the most dramatic examples of a situation where something is legal, but is very much a sin against God.
-- Al Barry

#Abortion #Example #Doe

It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
-- Alan Cooper

#Technology #Discipline #Example

For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing out here.
-- Alan Cumming

#Thinking #Missing #Example

Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.
-- Alan Dundes

#Children #Grandparent #Example

Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
-- Alan Kay

#Real #Tiny #Example

What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.
-- Alan Watts

#Real #Ideas #Example

Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.
-- Alan Watts

#Example #Philosopher #Failing

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.
-- Albert Einstein

#Teacher #Example #Way

There are, for example, exemptions in FOIA in which the government can withhold certain kinds of information, and the courts have recognized that there is certain documentation that do deserve protection, that certain privileges do apply and do deserve protection.
-- Alberto Gonzales

#Government #Example #Documentation

Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree - and there will be one.
-- Aldo Leopold

#Tree #May #Example

There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist.
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Men #Mind #Example

Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind!
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Example #Human Nature #Virtue

If you're worried about safety, you might like to follow my example and put on that seat belt." "The what?" Xavier shook his head in disbelief. "You worry me," he muttered.
-- Alexandra Adornetto

#Safety #Worry #Example

Furthermore, the Latin American nuclear-weapon free zone which is now nearing completion has become in several respects an example which, notwithstanding the different characteristics of each region, is rich in inspiration.
-- Alfonso Garcia Robles

#Latin #Inspiration #Example

To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges in self-accusations.
-- Alfred Adler

#Self #Example #Atonement

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
-- Alfred de Vigny

#Memories #Evil #Example

Children have a fastidiousness that time is slow to cure. It is to be wondered, for example, whether if the elderly were half as hungry as children are they would yet find so many things at table to be detestable.
-- Alice Meynell

#Children #Elderly #Example

Jesus did not come to live as an example of how to die as a martyr, but as a substitute, taking the place that we deserve in order that we might enjoy what we don't deserve. This is good news. Let us tell all our friends!
-- Alistair Begg

#Jesus #Order #Example

Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or as moral examples or agents.
-- Alister E. McGrath

#Spiritual #Teacher #Example

Historicism and cultural relativism actually are a means to avoid testing our own prejudices and asking, for example, whether men are really equal or whether that opinion is merely a democratic prejudice.
-- Allan Bloom

#Mean #Men #Example