Primarily Quotes

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men
is primarily based on mutual trust
and only secondarily on institutions
such as courts of justice and police.
- Albert Einstein

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
- Irving Langmuir

The signs of outstanding leadership
appear primarily among the followers.
Are the followers reaching their potential?
Are they learning? Serving?
Do they achieve the required results?
Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
- Max De Pree

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in
business but above all...
good design must primarily serve people.
- Thomas J. Watson

Practically every environmental problem we have can
be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels,
primarily oil.
- Dennis Weaver

We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another,
but to see one another through.
- Peter De Vries

Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while
I toy with a few vegetables.
- Nat King Cole

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time.
So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.
- Lisa Bonet

I work primarily for the camera-it's not something
I really talk about a lot,
but it's part of the way I am as a movie actor.
The camera is my girl, as it were.
- Terence Stamp

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.
- Timothy Radcliffe

This will surprise some of your readers,
but my primary interest is not with computer security.
I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.
- Wietse Venema

I want to tell stories for everyone,
primarily.
- Morris Chestnut

I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing,
as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer,
so the audience is like a jury to me.
- Vincent Bugliosi

I am a teacher, and I am proud of it.
At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates,
and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught
first-year general chemistry.
- Roald Hoffmann

This might be the first generation where kids are dying
at a younger age than their parents and it's related
primarily to the obesity problem.
- Judy Davis

I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor.
I can work back and forth between French and English.
- Norman Spinrad

People have been killing because of racial differences
since the time of Adam and Eve,
but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.
- Bob Cousy

A service of worship is primarily a service to God.
When we realize this and act upon it,
we make it a service to men.
- Ralph W. Sockman

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
- Muhammed Iqbal

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone,
but primarily by catchwords.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature,
for entertainment.
It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.
- Steig Larsson

After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change,
but there's not much production in New York,
which is where I primarily live, so I just sort of drifted over to London.
- Alex Winter

Therefore, our fight must primarily be a political
mass struggle with revolutionary goals.
- Joe Slovo

Style is primarily a matter of instinct.
- Bill Blass

But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.
- Buddy Rich

Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive.
- Jean M. Auel

I think the art world...
is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond.
They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries,
primarily in New York.
- Thomas Kinkade

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -
I well know.
For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
- Georges Clemenceau

I used to ask Sean questions about acting.
He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information.
I work primarily on an intuitive level.
- Robin Wright Penn

I will be singing primarily all the songs from the
musicals that I have been in from over the years.
- Elaine Paige

If you're doing a drama that has some comedic elements
you can't forget that it's primarily a very serious
film that has some light relief.
- Robert Downey, Jr.

I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
- Jack Levine

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this,
then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante

This radical transformation of world power relationships
reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and
the USSR the growth of the productive forces.
- Earl Browder

I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is
primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul
that I seek the salvation of the body.
- William Booth

Primarily I'm a social commentator rather than someone
who's out to get the belly laugh.
- Jonathan Shapiro

Do not primarily train men to work.
Train them to serve willingly and intelligently.
- James Cash Penney

The opportunities that Gorbachev created for international
relations have also been missed,
perhaps even lost - here, however, primarily because of the United States.
- Stephen Cohen

I think in the U.S., the border fence is no longer
an immigration issue primarily;
it's a security issue.
- Duncan Hunter

Men are more accountable for their motives,
than for anything else; and primarily,
morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.
- Archibald Alexander

We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
- Gary Player

What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time,
is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in
the House of Commons to get them to support it.
- Stephen Harper

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains
about nothing to the end.
- George Santayana

Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad
primarily as an internal struggle to improve.
- Marvin Olasky

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot
in the world is useless if you don't populate them
with characters that readers can care about.
- Jeffery Deaver

My college training was primarily in theatre,
with an eye to becoming a director, actor,
or producer.
- Orson Scott Card

My book collection is primarily in America,
since that's where I've lived most of my life.
- Terri Windling

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking
what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that,
primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.
- Marilyn Hacker

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging
facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense
by establishing strict causal connections.
- Johan Huizinga

All good Literature rests primarily on insight.
- George Henry Lewes

I write my programs primarily for myself.
- Bill Budge

The reason the Jews hate Nazis is primarily because
they didn't come up with the idea first.
- Tom Metzger

Our marine terminals are invaluable commerce infrastructure,
not only to our country but also for the many foreign
manufacturers who sell primarily in the U.S.
market.
- Dana Rohrabacher

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
- Eric Hoffer

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport:
a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.
- Deborah Tannen

Our calling is not primarily to be holy women,
but to work for God and for others with Him.
- Charles Simeon

Because when we're in space, my job is primarily getting
us there and getting us back.
- Duane G. Carey

A man is not primarily a witness against something.
That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.
- Whittaker Chambers

Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.
- Tom Skerritt

I always have a lot of personal goals,
but primarily my main goal each year is to obviously win a Super Bowl.
- Michael Strahan

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses,
but from our illusions.
We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images
we have put in their place.
- Daniel J. Boorstin

Of course we are doing this primarily for ourselves,
but I know our fans dig most of it, too.
- Kerry King

I always thought that Bill Murray was one of the great
actors that I've worked with.
And I've worked with all kinds of people who are known
primarily for their dramatic work.
- Ivan Reitman

The department was set up primarily to protect us from
another terrorist attack from Islamic terrorists,
and yet they talk about everything but that.
- Peter King

I believe that we have been doing this not primarily
to achieve riches or even honour,
but rather because we were interested in the work,
enjoyed doing it and felt very strongly that it was worthwhile.
- Frederick Sanger

As far as the future for the Showtime episodes that have already aired,
we are sold into syndication so we'll be appearing
primarily on the Fox syndicated networks and then eventually the SCI FI Channel.
So, we'll be around for a while.
- Richard Dean Anderson

But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where,
if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic
or violent or sinister stuff in it,
you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier
than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work.
- Robert Downey, Jr.

Man is used to the fact that there are languages which
he does not at first understand and which must be learned,
but because art is primarily visual he expects that
he should get the message immediately and is apt to
be affronted if he doesn't.
- Edward T. Hall

The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations,
where most of the people, comprising more than fifty
percent of the total world population,
live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion
and fear of famine a continual menace.
- Norman Borlaug

Such being the nature of mental life,
the business of psychology is primarily to describe
in detail the various forms which attention or conation
assumes upon the different levels of that life.
- Samuel Alexander

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