Application Quotes

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
H. L. Mencken

Love, Democracy, Adultery

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
Peter Drucker

Knowledge, Manager

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.
Bill Gates

Between, System, Line

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
Frederick Douglass

Done, Greatness, Ability

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
Pablo Picasso

Love, Beauty, Art

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men, Rather, Succeed

There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Impossible, Means, Few

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
Karl Marx

Together, Labor, Among

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
William Wordsworth

Beauty, Mind, Human

There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.
Scott Adams

Through, Cannot, Problems

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Truth, Nothing, Fine

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
Richard M. Nixon

Sympathy, Philosophy, Learn

For the first time we're allowing developers who don't work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That's a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.
Mark Zuckerberg

Work, Time, Business

One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.
Danica McKellar

Love, Art, Amazing

Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
Jack White

Home, Thought, Put

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.
Marya Mannes

Control, Reason, Emotions

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
Miguel de Cervantes

Wise, Found, Wealth

The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application.
David Hume

Philosophy, Secret, Influence

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
William Glasser

Knowledge, Focus, Thinking

The application of military force, or the prospect of such application, inhibits terrorist violence.
Benjamin Netanyahu

Violence, Military, Force

In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet application was approximately $150,000 a month.
Marc Andreessen

Company, Internet, Partner

The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business.
James Cash Penney

Business, Rule, Golden

There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.
Leon Trotsky

Car, Impossible, Question

We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue, bring some sanity back into the financial sector, and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way.
Eliot Spitzer

Government, Give, Here

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.
Howard Nemerov

Work, Business, Why

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
Jean Genet

Revolution, Object, Liberation

I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application.
George Saunders

Good, Short, Whatever

Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
Fay Weldon

Mind, Practice, Manifest

There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own people.
Paul Harris

Today, Political, Nothing

Whenever I write about mental health and integrative therapies, I am accused of being prejudiced against pharmaceuticals. So let me be clear - integrative medicine is the judicious application of both conventional and evidence-based natural therapies.
Andrew Weil

Health, Write, Against

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