Quotes of: Extent Keyword

Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

Horace Walpole

To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that.

Aldrich Ames

Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.

William Ellery Channing

We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.

Walter Gilbert

Joy in your Job is possible to the extent you're willing to choose it.

Becoming The Fulfilled Leader

The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles.

Larry Gagosian

Not every one of us are born or made free of our own prisons to the extent of ourselves.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.

Paul A.M. Dirac

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.

Paul Muldoon

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

Sigmund Freud

You can force students to learn, to a certain extent, but students aren't happy and employers aren't happy.

Sugata Mitra

The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.

Swami Sivananda

I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent.

Sharon Tate

I'm a technophobe. I can't crack the iPhone, and the extent of my multitasking is being able to talk while I make a drink.

Len Goodman

Our brains renew themselves throughout life to an extent previously thought not possible.

Michael Gazzaniga

Don't degrade your soul to the extent of believing in curses. No man can curse you except your maker.

Michael Bassey Johnson

It is just completely disgraceful that someone can go to the extent of morphing my face onto someone else's body to create a sensational video.

Mona Singh

September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.

Geraldine Brooks

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

Jimmy Carter

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

Christopher Hitchens