#theory

I don't think Obama understands basic economics. Not economics that work. He may understand some theory that someone in Princeton sat and dreamed up, but it's not working. ↗

— Rick Perry

#dreamed #economics #i #may #obama

I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#i #inside #live #office #outside

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#form #more #often #practicality #than

Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#created #methodology #nonverbal #organized #should

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#does #earth #ground #life #live

I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it seems to make sense, you can then take your audience into an area that is relatively outlandish. ↗

— Ivan Reitman

#audience #call #domino #go #i

My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy. ↗

— Jay Roach

#comedy #commentary #commentator #criticism #disk

There's the theory that nudity doesn't really make something sexy; the characters and their relationship make it sexy. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#make #nudity #really #relationship #sexy

Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action. ↗

— W. Edwards Deming

#behavior #only #rational #reactive #reflex

Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself. ↗

— Walter Lang

#come #essential #everything #evolution #into