Certain Quotes

That way you can be certain to learn something you didn't know previously.

Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.

There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her.

In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to characterize the species.

There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.

I love the flow of the game. There’s a certain fluidity to basketball. I don’t enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.

Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble.

It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others may be content with us and with themselves.

What is certain in death is somewhat softened by what is uncertain; it is an indefiniteness in the time, which holds a certain relation to the infinite, and what is called eternity.

There are certain natures to whom work is nothing, the act of work everything.

Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation.

A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich.

The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.

Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.

To men of a certain type The suspicion that they are incapable of loving Is as disturbing to their self-esteem As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence.

Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.

If people tell me something is impossible, I just want to prove that. I want to know that that's for certain. I don't want to not do something because someone says I can't.

Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn't be triggered by a normal voice.

Actually, I love trying to figure out why certain books become hits while others, which may be just as good, have trouble finding an audience.

Teaching is the human thing, in terms of building the kids' self-confidence, so if we take the broad ways that we want to see society to be better, science can only provide certain pieces of that.

Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.

Every time you respond in a certain fashion, it gets easier and easier to respond.

Unless we as social change agents come from a certain spirituality, we're likely to create more harm than good.

When I was young I liked taking tests. I happened to be good at it. Certain subjects came easily, like math. All the science stuff. I would just read the textbooks in the first few days of class.

There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.

Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.

A certain degree of preparation for war . . . affords also the best security for the continuance of peace.

Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways.

I am certain that most Germans have instinctive liking for Italy, just as Italians admire Germans for their many qualities.

Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you.

It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment.

Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for.

You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way.

It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.

At a certain point in your career - I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one.

I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things.

Once you reach a certain age, you're either slowly dying or slowly being reborn. I want to choose the latter.

Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.

I can do a reddish-brown or brown lip, but not a bright red. I just don't look good in it. Over the years you learn certain things that don't look good on you, and that's one of them for me.

It may be regarded as certain that not a foot of land will ever be taken from the Indians without their own consent.

But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.

When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly.

There are certain artists and filmmakers who, I get the impression, are trying to show off how bad their characters can be, how immoral their characters can be.

It is certain that every class is interested in [educational] establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements, and to every Country its truest and most durable celebrity.

Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.

I agree, and a lot of people even within my own party want to give certain rights to people on watch lists and no- fly lists.

We discovered how much money influences certain things work in United States. How things might seem okay on the outside, but internally, they're corrupt.