Combination Quotes - page 4

No vision issue today is bigger than the question of efficiency versus some combination of innovation and customer service. (John Kotter)
The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has produced precisely the system of boondoggling, luxury-consumption, and status. View quote
Paul Goodman
The de-eroticization of the world, a companion to its disenchantment ... seems to result from a combination of causes our democratic regime and its tendencies toward leveling and self-protection, a reductionist-materialist science that inevitably interprets eros as sex, and the atmosphere generated by "the death of God" and of the subordinate god, Eros. View quote
Allan Bloom
Progressively higher levels of organization are attained as catalytic cycles on one level interlock and form hypercycles: these are systems on a higher level of organization. Thus molecules emerge from a combination of chemically active atoms; protocells emerge from sequences of complex molecules; eukaryotic cells emerge among the prokaryotes; metazoa make their appearance among the protozoa and converge in still higher-level ecological and social systems. View quote
Ervin László
Venereal: From Venus, the goddess of love, this word refers to the reality of desire. With the rise of Protestantism and science, the word "disease" was tacked on in a revealing combination of categorization and moralizing. "Which disease?" View quote
John Ralston Saul
The Nazi Party was, in the early 1920s, but one among many nationalist and volkisch radical political groups. It was catapulted to prominence with the onset of economic recession in the late 1920s... The Nazis owed their spectacular to a combination of two discrete sets of factors: first, their distinctive organisation and strategy; and secondly, the wider socio-economic conditions which created climates of opinion and sets of grievances on which the Nazis could prey. View quote
Mary Fulbrook
He was not used to the smell of dragon breath, which is best described as a combination of the stench of burning rubber and the stink of old socks, with overtones of a hamster cage in dire need of a cleaning. View quote
Angie Sage
In any commersial setting time comes in three forms. There's real time, there's perceived time, and there's a combination of two. View quote
Paco Underhill
A broken heart, too much cold beer, ocean waves and a willing man were never a good combination, no matter what the country songs said. View quote
Patti Callahan Henry
It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it. View quote
Penelope Lively
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe. (Peter De Vries)
Every combination of two or more human beings has both a useful aspect and a political aspect. View quote
Robert Shea
The combination of rumination and negative mood is toxic. Research shows that people who ruminate while sad or distraught are likely to feel besieged, powerless, self-critical, pessimistic, and generally negatively biased. View quote
Sonja Lyubomirsky
If computers remain far worse than us at image recognition, a certain over-confident combination of man and machine can elsewhere take inaccuracy to a whole new level. View quote
Tom Chatfield
The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself. View quote
Walter Jon Williams
In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow. View quote
Henry Cloud
The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: do more of what you do. View quote
David J. Schwartz
I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination. View quote
Dennis Rodman
I know I'm famous and irresitible - a combination whose properties closely resemble radioactivity - and I know that you in this room are helpless against me. View quote
Jennifer Egan
A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two. View quote
Will Eisner
When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society. (K.d. lang)
The most important question we have to deal with, is a combination of population control and the control of our environment - how to utilize the world in as effective a way as we can for the future of mankind. View quote
David Packard
I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
It didn't take a trauma to make you wear a mask. It didn't take your parents getting shot... or cosmic rays or a power ring... Just the perfect combination of loneliness and despair. View quote
Mark Millar
The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.--Ameila Peabody. View quote
Elizabeth Peters