The preachers who gain mighty results for God are the men who have prevailed in their pleadings with God ere venturing to plead with men.
If you call on God to improve the results of a shot while it is still in motion, you are using 'an outside agency' and subject to appropriate penalties under the rules of golf.
Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.
Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.
Success in past U.S. conflicts has not been strictly the result of military leadership but rather the judgment of the president in choosing generals and setting broad strategy.
What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is in himself.
I'm more scared of parking by a parking meter than vampires because one of them is real and adversely affects my life and results in a $35 fine, and one is nonsense.
However, we do not lack anti-terrorist laws. I do not believe that the recent London bombs were the result of any deficiencies in our legal system.
There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
In spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from difficult times, becoming stronger, wiser and happier as a result.
Skating isn't about the medals or the results. I love what I do. It's much more fun to win, but you cannot every time.
A negative habit is a matter of frequent negative thoughts and beliefs in one's mind, but never a result of the complexion of one's skin.
Most businesses fail because they want the right things but measure the wrong things, and they get the wrong results.
My art is the result of a deeply personal, infinitely complex, and still essentially mysterious, exploration of experience. No words will ever touch it.
Keeping your space clean is as much a part of the end result as the dish being tasty.
By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
The studio is a laboratory, not a factory. An exhibition is the result of your experiments, but the process is never-ending. So an exhibition is not a conclusion.
The choices of roles I made had to do with educating and entertaining. And as a result I found myself working only every two or three years.
It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.
