#formula

Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy. ↗

— Jet Li

#action films #arts #back #bad #bad guy

I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years. ↗

— Ed Wynn

#avoiding #calendar #care #day #every

The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#break #formula #give #give me #go

Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down. ↗

— Frances McDormand

#boring #breaking #car #chase #down

As we know from the work of certain fundamental physicists, people like Einstein were very dependent upon conjuring up visual images in order to imagine things which otherwise were not easily formulated. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#dependent #easily #einstein #formulated #fundamental

I've come up with another formulation about style: that it's essentially a manifestation of a certain habitual set of limitations. It's what a composer does NOT do that defines a style. ↗

— James Tenney

#another #certain #come #composer #defines

Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#answer #formulates #know #needed #only

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#develop #fade #formulate #hold #imagination

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. ↗

— J. Paul Getty

#early #formula #hard #oil #rise

The time has come to formulate guidelines for the ethical conduct of scientist, perhaps in the form of a voluntary Hippocratic Oath. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#conduct #ethical #form #formulate #guidelines