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Talcott Parsons Quotes

Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.

Talcott Parsons

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: sociologist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 13, 1902 - May 8, 1979

Topics

Direction Will First Structure Fact

I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.

Jill Clayburgh

Sitting Dressing Room Dressing Room

I loved animation and cartoons, even when it was not cool when you were in high school. I raced home to see the Bugs Bunny cartoons.

John Lasseter

Home School Cool High School Loved

Sometimes, we need an obstacle to challenge us and push us further than we would if things were always status quo. I'd say one example is the market crashing. It's like, just when we started to get into a rhythm, everything changed! But, it taught us a great deal about how we do business and how we can improve.

John Varvatos

Business Great Challenge Push Say

For years after 'The Last Waltz,' I got all kinds of silly movie offers - or, maybe, not silly, but parts that are not my calling... lots of offers to play some wonderful boyfriend.

Robbie Robertson

Silly Play Years Wonderful Got Last

I never think too hard about a look. When you consider an outfit too much, that's when it goes wrong.

Rita Ora

Think You Look Outfit Too Much Hard

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

Joyce Kilmer

Nature Tree Think Never Lovely See

There is no finish line to leadership.

Julia Hartz

Leadership Finish Line Finish Line

I just think my life's been really blessed, because being in show business, I've met wonderful people, and I've traveled all over the world.

Debbie Reynolds

Life Business People Blessed World

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.

Christopher Hitchens

Wife People Book Say Never Absurd

Age is just a number. Life and aging are the greatest gifts that we could possibly ever have.

Cicely Tyson

Life Age Aging Greatest Gifts Just

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

William James

Attitude Beginning Will Difficult

Men are what they see and judge; though some do not fill up their light, yet none go beyond it.

William Gurnall

Light Men Judge Go Beyond See