Formula for success: Underpromise and overachieve.
You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil.
If I plug my estimates into the Magic Formula, and it comes out cheap, that's good.
There is not a formula for the way that God heals. There's not a timetable.
I like to try anything. . . You have to do the experiments to find out what the formulas are.
Crowds are influenced mainly by images produced by the judicious employment of words and formulas
Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.
I was carrying Jackie Stewart's bag! Formula One was pretty much the same back then.
I use mainly products by Dermalogica. They have specialized formulas to target specific skin needs, which I like. It works well for my sensitive skin.
I read to learn, tech myself stuff and teach myself math and do complex formulas, and it's very, very tough, but I enjoy doing that and keeping my mind active. It definitely comes in handy, I feel I have a pretty good grasp, at more than a lot of musicians, of the business and finance world.
. . . mathematics is very much like poetry. . . what makes a good poem -- a great poem -- is that there is a large amount of thought expressed in very few words. In this sense formulas like or are poems.
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
Rewrite formula: 2nd Draft = 1st Draft - 10%.
When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.
The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.
The best formula for revenge is success.
Trust me, there is no formula for most things that are not math.
Palmer's Cocoa Butter Formula Cream - you can use it everywhere.
Formula one is very one-dimensional in terms of what we do in the cockpit.
There is no perfect mathematical formula for pricing a business.