Formula Quotes

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. (Theodore Roosevelt)
The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions. View quote
Paulo Coelho
We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void. View quote
Emil Cioran
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace. View quote
Joseph Conrad
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can. View quote
Cary Grant
A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God. View quote
Donald Knuth
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God. View quote
Maria Mitchell
I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you're going to fail big or you're gonna win big. View quote
Sylvester Stallone
The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions. View quote
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody. View quote
Herbert Bayard Swope
I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas. (Ron Paul)
The formula for water is H2O. Is the formula for an ice cube H2O squared. View quote
Lily Tomlin
My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil. View quote
J. Paul Getty
In business the 80/20 principle is behind any innovation, any extra value. It is an entrepreneurial principle, a formula for value creation utilized not only by entrepreneurs, but by most managers and organizations. View quote
Richard Koch
At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They're all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they're all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That's a formula for getting news. View quote
Bob Schieffer
To race Formula three is very high risk and I am not going to take a chance. Thank god I am not doing it! View quote
Emerson Fittipaldi
The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula. View quote
Herbert Croly
They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera. View quote
Michael Zaslow
We are made of emotions, we are all looking for emotions, it's only a question of finding the way to experience them. There are many different ways of experience them all. Perhaps one different thing, only that, one particular thing that Formula One can provide you, is that you know we are always expose to danger, danger of getting hurt, danger of dying. View quote
Ayrton Senna
The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form-knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration. View quote
Henry Moore
We believe that the elements in the chemical formula of our creative work, problem, invention, and art, correspond to the challenges of our age. (El Lissitsky)
The banks don't have anything - no rights whatsoever. The banks are shareholders of SLEC, and SLEC has no rights. ... I am the CEO of Formula One Management and Formula One Administration, which runs the business in F1. From this point of view, I own F1. View quote
Bernie Ecclestone
By such literalism, fundamentalism, religions betrayed the best intentions of their founders. Reducing thought to formula, replacing choice by obedience, these preachers turned the living word into dead law. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings. View quote
Arthur Rubinstein
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends upon what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascod, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley