Facility Quotes

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. (Thomas Beecham)
I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss. View quote
Dylan Moran
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation. View quote
Walt Disney
I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting. View quote
Gerry Mulligan
The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre to which they all converge. We may even judge the degree of perfection to which a science has arrived by the facility with which it may be submitted to calculation. View quote
Adolphe Quetelet
I am always amazed how much a certain facility with a special and apparently narrow technique can accomplish. View quote
Stanislaw Ulam
There are many ways in which the intuition can be drawn into activity, and one of the most useful and potent is the study and interpretation of symbols. Symbols are the outer and visible forms of the inner spiritual realities, and when facility in discovering the reality behind any specific form has been gained, that very fact will indicate the awakening of the intuition. View quote
Alice Bailey
I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee. View quote
Akio Morita
How to know, oh how to know! All is relative ease and facility in orthodoxy, yet how can it be denied that good is in itself undeniable? Absolutes are the most uncertain of all formulations, while the uncertainties are the most real... View quote
Jack Vance
The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together. View quote
Eric Hoffer
I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox. (Jack Osbourne)
A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant. View quote
Ralph Merkle
Goethe said that the worst thing in art is technical facility accompanied by triteness. Many an artist, like God, has never needed to think twice about anything. His works are the mad scene from Giselle, on ice skates: he weeps, pulls out his hair-holding his wrists like Lifar-and tells you what Life is, all at a gliding forty miles an hour. View quote
Randall Jarrell
The two most important functional aspects to be fulfilled in a transportation facility are ease of wayfinding and easy orientation. View quote
Santiago Calatrava
In many previously classified documents relating to activities at the base, the words 'Area 51' are conveniently blacked out. There's always a euphemism for it - like 'the test facility' or 'the base' - but never 'Area 51.' View quote
Annie Jacobsen
People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation. View quote
Ben Mezrich
I do mean this - I had the good fortune of being around a number of Alzheimer's patients in the last three years of my mother's life. She was in a care facility that was devoted to just people with memory-loss issues. I found those people engaging and generous in ways that I had not imagined. View quote
James Rebhorn
It doesn't do much good to have a quality image, whether it's with the facility or whether it's with the merchandise, if you don't have real quality people taking care of your customers. View quote
James Sinegal
As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility, which I do. View quote
Majora Carter
My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance. (Richard MacDonald)
My main idea was to create a sports facility for the basics. This is why I established the club. View quote
Sergei Bubka
Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on. View quote
Stockwell Day
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing. View quote
William Falconer