The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.
Steven Pinker

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.
Rupert Murdoch

Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end.
Charlton Heston

Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely.
Charlton Heston

Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.
Charlton Heston

And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.
Ulrich Beck

South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.
Thabo Mbeki

You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case.
Deborah Bull

There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.
Claude Debussy

We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.
Barbara Jordan

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.
Rebecca West

I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
Dean Acheson

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
William Feather

I'm very much a lead by example person.
Alexandra Paul

This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted.
Marie Windsor

There is no teaching to compare with example.
Robert Powell

You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.
Jeremy Rifkin

General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.
Mason Cooley

You're a good example of why some animals eat their young.
Jim Samuels

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