Underlying Quotes - page 9

One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression. (Jack Dee)
There's something really interesting about having those close friends that you've had incredible times with but growing up and away from them. The underlying tensions, the shifting in the group dynamic, the little lies you tell to big yourself up: it's something that happens to us all. View quote
John Simm
On first listening, Joni Mitchell's 'Court And Spark,' the first truly great pop album of 1974, sounds surprisingly light; by the third or fourth listening, it reveals its underlying tensions. View quote
Jon Landau
I used to think that it didn't make any difference how far you ran if you had a good, strong musculoskeletal system and no underlying cardiovascular problems. View quote
Kenneth H. Cooper
I believe photos is one of the underlying things in every social network that becomes successful. View quote
Kevin Systrom
The underlying part of any comprehensive immigration bill is family unit. View quote
Luis Gutierrez
The overall experience Skype provided was superior to other folks because of the underlying architecture and the ability to provide a superior experience. View quote
Danny Rimer
Alan White and I spent the next two or three years working together on this. We developed what is known a stochastic volatility model. This is a model where the volatility as well as the underlying asset price moves around in an unpredictable way. View quote
John Hull
Because contemporary paganism is essentially so new, its underlying ethical structure is not particularly sophisticated. View quote
Liz Williams
The only way one should buy stocks is if you understand the underlying business. You stay within the circle of competence. You buy businesses you understand. View quote
Mohnish Pabrai
With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations? (Nathan Myhrvold)
The fact that Obama is getting criticism from the left and the right might reflect his understanding of the underlying political dynamics. View quote
Ron Fournier
In the underlying bill, I think the authors of the legislation, those in support of it, understand the use of the Mississippi River. Yes, there is commercial navigation on it, and there will be tomorrow. View quote
Ron Kind
French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community. View quote
Stephen Gardiner
American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture. View quote
Tom Hooper
Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future. View quote
Bourke Cockran
In more recent times, religious and racial diversity - in Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, Iraq, or contemporary Nigeria - has resulted in chaos and, occasionally, genocide. True, some nations have been able to incorporate different tribes, as in the United Kingdom's unification of the various peoples of the British Isles, but usually after hundreds of years of fighting and only when there were underlying racial and cultural affinities that could trump tribal differences. View quote
Victor Davis Hanson
Fundamental analysis seeks to establish how underlying values are reflected in stock prices, whereas the theory of reflexivity shows how stock prices can influence underlying values. View quote
George Soros
The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior. View quote
J. Philippe Rushton
When the underlying reality is particularly unpleasant, we minimize-numbing ourselves to the actual extent of the real story. We say, "Things can't possibly be as bad as people tell us,” because we don't want them to be that bad. This is a form of magical thinking, a way of shutting our eyes. Surely if things were that bad, somebody would do something about it. Withdrawal can take the form of removing our interest (another horror story about furry pets, yawn, yawn); or our wandering attention (understandably, since we are besieged by other equally pressing images of horror). Of course this reaction can be genuine: not everyone need become an activist in the cause to end animal suffering. And becoming a vegetarian may seem like going too far. In fact, it is not such a difficult step and could be legitimately seen as the very best form of activism. View quote
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Self-determination is now recognized as a principle of legitimacy underlying modern international law. (Alfred de Zayas)
My entrance into the field of abstract art came about as the result of a visit to the studio of Piet Mondrian in Paris in 1930. I was particularly impressed by some rectangles of color he had tacked on his wall in a pattern after his nature. I told him I would like to make them [Mondrian's flat painting] oscillate, he objected. I went home and tried to paint abstractly - but in two weeks I was back again among plastic materials. I think that at that time and practically ever since, the underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from. View quote
Alexander Calder
We live so much of our lives in chaos. Human history can be viewed as an endless search for greater order: everything from language to religion to law to science tries to impose a framework on chaotic existence. The existentialists, sometimes wrongly described as disbelieving in an underlying order, saw the risks and the foolishness of the obsession with creating one. Hitler showed the risk, as did any number of populist tyrants before him. I teach my students that law, too, shows the risk, when we try to regulate a phenomenon-human behavior-that we do not even understand. I am not arguing against law...but against the Panglossian assumption that we can ever do law particularly well. The darkness in which we live dooms us to do it badly. View quote
Stephen L. Carter
Then came the political campaign of 1920 with its bitter personal feuds, as a result of which the real underlying issues were obscured by passion, misrepresentation and downright falsehood. View quote
Kirby Page
The problem for many people is that we cannot point to the underlying biological bases of most psychiatric disorders. In fact, we are nowhere near understanding them as well as we understand disorders of the liver or the heart. View quote
Eric Kandel