He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.
The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are.
No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven.
I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.
I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
Beck said he didn't believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent.
No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts.
There's a theory in gameplay, particularly in first person shooters, that sometimes you don't want to have that much of a character because then it destroys the experience of the player being that character.
In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either increased inflation or decreased economic growth.
Forget the conspiracy theories! God gave us the right to vote, and He gave the United States, and all of its citizens, freedom through democracy.
My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.
The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn't hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people would make decisions that lead to failure.
My theory has always been, if you take care of your business today, take care of the job you have at hand, whatever else comes down the road will be there for you.
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.
The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.
Something that confirms all fears and many conspiracy theories about government is finding out what our elected representatives would put into law if they could.
It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.
In my opinion, assassination theories will continue to revolve around these assassinations as they have around several other significant assassinations in American history. The assassination of President Lincoln comes to mind.
