Introduction Quotes

Morning Glory's introduction to the magical ways of the Goddess, manifest in our time, has enlarged my understanding of Pagan ways, enriching my spirit and imagination.

In English, we were still on the Introduction to Poetry Unit, and I'm not lying, if I ever meet Percy Bysshe Shelley walking down the streets of Marysville, I'm going to punch him right in the face.

All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.

My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.

I grew up listening to everything, and when I got signed to a record deal out of Nashville, that was my introduction to what was happening in country music.

Absolutely, 'Rabbit Hole' gave me a nice first introduction into film acting.

My introduction to photography and a lot of how I developed aesthetically was through '50s and early-'60s fashion magazines like Harper's Bazaar and Vogue.

The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England.

Diligence in employments of less consequence is the most successful introduction to greater enterprises.

Who Was Jesus? Fingerprints of the Christ just might be the best short introduction to Biblical scholarship yet.

[Heresy is] the dislocation of a complete and self-supporting scheme by the introduction of a novel denial of some essential part therein.

The best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time.

In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do.

An excellent introduction to the rise and fall of the British Raj, accurate, succinct, and engaging.

After this happens again and again, we reach a point were there is nothing but satori, which is what nirvikalpa samadhi is like.

My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the 'Pata Pata' album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice.

The introduction of resistance in form of sand and hill is too important to be ignored.

Ever since the introduction of psychoanalysis there have been too many terms to excuse behavior and phrases that can be [used] to explain everything.

Were most of your stars out? Were you busy writing your heart out?

I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.

The introduction of Harriet Tubman is going to be very exciting, she's a real life superhero so for us to be able to feature her this season is groundbreaking for a television series.

Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.

I assume I don't need an introduction.

Maybe that's why I don't like religion because the first introduction to it was, you don't get to do that thing you just discovered that you really enjoy.

The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that was more fully human.

As the old saying goes, for somebody as famous as you, you don't need any introduction.

I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.

My first introduction to fashion probably came through television: I was obsessed with Elsa Klensch, who used to cover fashion for CNN.

This is Zen, and in Zen, as we all know ... anything goes!

Zen is about breaking out of your ideas and experiencing life and not ideas.

Zen is meditation, the actual experience of life directly, immediately with no buffers.

We see signs of it perhaps for 28 das or 34 days, then it goes away. Yet we are different.

Zen is the way of splitting the self again and again, untilt there is nothing left.

People who practice Zen correctly are not spaced-out or unrealistic. They are balanced and grounded.

Old Zen is the way of nothingness, the way of having a good time.

Old Zen was the reduction of concepts to absurdity.

The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self or that we are anyone in particular.

The way of nothingness is the way of Zen. It is just a term. The contemplation of nothingness or everythingness is where everything starts.

Zen is the path that focuses the most upon meditation. It is almost exclusively a path of meditation.

In Zen you are learning how to make new realities, to build things inside your mind.

I am intentionally avoiding the standard term which, by the way, did not exist in Euler's time. One of the ugliest outgrowths of the "new math" was the premature introduction of technical terms.

When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,--none of the servants.

I was raised in Washington, DC, very violent place. I grew up with violence. My introduction to music was violent. The years I've spent on tours, some of that was extremely violent.

I was once on a panel where we concluded that the only things you couldn't have in YA were boring and beastiality. Now with the introduction of shapeshifters, I'd say just boring.

If I ever saw him again,he was going to get a proper introduction to Tasey.

I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel.

English life is seventh-eighths below the surface, like an iceberg, and living in England for a year constitutes merely an introduction to an introduction to an introduction to it.

I loved 'Fantasia' as a kid because it filled me with wonder, enchantment and awe. It was my first real introduction into classical music. It was totally inspiring to me.

Apparently deciding Charles’s brief introduction wasn’t good enough, his brother reintroduced himself. “Dr. Samuel Cornick, elder brother and tormentor. Very nice to meet you, Anna—