Consists Quotes

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification.

My wardrobe consists of antique clothes, many of my designs, plus shoes and shirts from Brooks Brothers and Paul Stuart.

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished.

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.

It consists entirely of people who are not related by blood, many of whom can't stand each other.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.