Degrees Quotations | Page 5

We are not determined by our experiences, but are self-determined by the meaning we give to them; and when we take particular experiences as the basis for our future life, we are almost certain to be misguided to some degree. Meanings are not determined by situations. We determine ourselves by the meanings we ascribe to situations.

Sade has a curious ability to render every aspect of sexuality suspect, so that we see how the chaste kiss of the sentimental lover differs only in degree from the vampirish love-bite that draws blood, we understand that a disinterested caress is only quantitatively different from a disinterested flogging.

Insight occurs when, and to the degree that, one knows oneself.

In truth, the degree of anyone's success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no.

Dell is to a degree in the penalty box because expectations and probable results have gotten ratcheted down.

I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.

Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives

We're not all evil or all good, and we all make mistakes to one degree or another.

Our Phoenician ancestors never left anything they undertook unfinished. Consider what they accomplished in their days, and the degree of culture they attained.

The satisfactions people derive from what they do are determined to a large degree by their self-evaluative standards

I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.

I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'.

To some degree, you control your life by controlling your time.

In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.

Hurling looks a bit like a cross between lacrosse and second degree murder.

You get the software you pay for. In every sense. To the nth degree. That's the way the world works.

Normally, I'm a very controlling director. Directors ARE controlling. It's part of the job, but there's various degrees of it and the constructs I normally work on are very controlling constructs.

a college education I would never propose - a bachelor's degree won't even keep you in clothes

All of our lives are governed by a certain degree of faith in bullshit.

Only someone obsessed with sexual fidelity to an unhealthy degree places a higher value on preserving the ideal of monogamous marriage over preserving an actual marriage.

Composing demands a degree of isolation.

There are now college degrees in game design and interactive media, so if I were starting now, I would probably do that. When I started, you had to break into design from QA or programming or art, but it's really not true anymore.

Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

The degree of customization possible through your Preferences screens is awesome.

There are hardly any schools giving four-year bachelor's degrees in automotive, and that creates a dilemma because you are asking for a person with technical experience and academic experience at a level that the majority of the people you are trying to employ don't have.

There are a number of studies published that report on varying degrees of effectiveness. But there are also a lot of studies that point to the fact that the vaccines are effective in preventing the serious complications that lead to hospitalizations and death, and that's an important note that we should never lose sight of.

With our film, we were trying to show a group of people who have experienced degrees of fame and it's either been fleeting or they're trying to regain it.

Two sets of railways will be laid so nearly level as not in any place to deviate more than two degrees from a horizontal line, made of wood or iron, on smooth paths of broken stone or gravel, with a rail to guide the carriages so that they may pass each other in different directions and travel by night as well as by day; and the passengers will sleep in these stages as comfortably as they do now in steam stage-boats.

Fans make it feel like you are 3 to 4 degrees cooler by virtue of the air on skin, which produces a cooler effect.

We've had varying degrees of negotiation and we are closer in some cases than others. We exchanged figures and we have a second round of negotiations coming.

We've had some people get to 106 degrees and not have symptoms and some get to 102 and have symptoms. Some guys' core temperature rises after they come off the field and stand around, and other guys it goes down when they come out. It depends on the individual.

We all have our ambassador that we send forward into the world. We all have people we are varying degrees of real with. There's a public face we all wear. As I get older and more comfortable in my skin, I am trying to combine the two so the real me is there all the time.

Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women more than it does to men.

Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.

Theoretically, with this antifreeze protein we might be able to store an organ at 21 degrees Fahrenheit. Hopefully, it would be able to last longer so that you would have longer to do tissue matching to get the organ to the patient and just increase the shelf life of organs.

The records reveal a large, two to five degrees Celsius temperature change in the subtropical Atlantic Ocean. That's comparable to the total change between the ice age and the present day at the same location.

We found that you can go down to 70 degrees and people will not complain. In fact, they won't even notice.

We have a 31,000 module about 30 feet long, 14 feet in diameter, and we have to have it within 2 degrees of wobble to being perfectly lined up or it won't work.

Twenty degrees is perfect for us. When it gets into the high 20s and the sun is out, it starts to affect the ice.

We went from 20 degrees above normal to a colder than normal weekend.

We try to slow them down when we get them to 100 degrees or so, so we don't over-cool them,

You feel warmer in your home if the humidity is at the right level. Add a humidifier to your home and you'll feel warmer even with your thermostat set a few degrees lower.

We think that the answer is love and care at the end of life and not eliminating patients. This turns (care) 180 degrees and asks doctors to be complicit in something we find morally offensive.

We have deserving students who are kept out of college or have difficulty completing their degrees because of a lack of money. With increased competition abroad, this is exactly what we can't afford to have happening in this country.

We do not think that investors have given up on the equity markets and we remain bullish over the next few months, ... the beginnings of an economic tailwind, the probability of needed incremental upward earnings revisions, reasonable valuation and relatively strong degrees of skepticism amongst investors we talk to.

Both my mother and my father grew up in Asia, in a time of political instability. They'd earned college degrees before setting foot in the States but had to work menial jobs early on in order to make ends meet.

Earth is warmer in 1988 than at any time in the history of instrumental measurements, The warming of a few degrees is going to take us to a world that is perhaps as different from today as the last ice age is from today.

Everybody who gets promoted to general understands the position carries much higher degrees of conduct,

Everyone's so dedicated to making sure that whatever happens is in the best interest of the city and its residents, which is obviously 180 degrees from Sprint's view.

Everything can be broken -- there's no such thing as perfect security. There's only degrees of insecurity.

Every position has its pros and cons, its degrees of difficulty. It's completely different from playing the infield.

Every computer model predicts significant warming over the next 100 years, but is it going to be 3.5 degrees Fahrenheit or 9 degrees Fahrenheit?

Every April is sort of like Christmas. Opening Day comes and the changes in the park every year seem to be better and better, and this year is by the far the biggest and best yet. To have a beautiful, sunny day and 65 degrees to show it off is just extraordinary.

Farther west temperatures will be even higher. In St. Louis temperatures are expected to rise to 80 degrees tomorrow. They have a shot at the record, which is 81 degrees.

The results suggest the threshold is close to the end of this century, and it could come sooner. The Arctic is already warming much faster than we thought it would. To think we're not going to get 4 to 5 degrees warmer in another 50 years is wishful thinking.

The track here is not suitable to prepare them for the Games and the whole idea is to make them accustomed to the smaller, tighter track. This is 47 degrees at its steepest and calls for a lot more control and concentration so we want to make them comfortable on that type of surface.

The water temperature up here was 57 degrees over the weekend. That's just about bedding water. The fish here don't know what to do. And with the cold weather settling in this weekend, they will probably go deep again, until it warms up.

The scientists say that it's going to be five to 10 degrees warmer by the end of this century, the 21st century, than it is today.

It was, you know, probably 80 degrees out in L.A., and my dad took me outside and there was snow. At the time, I thought, 'Every kid doesn't have snow in their backyard on Christmas?'

It was about 50 degrees and windy. But it was OK.

The shop contributed funds to our programs with varying degrees of success, until the last four years, which have seen steadily declining sales.

The single biggest thing customers can do is turn down that thermostat. Wherever you had it set normally or in past winters, try to turn it down 5 degrees below that. That will easily get you the 10 percent savings.

The spiritual (i.e. the supersensory) has many degrees; thus, the term 'spiritual' is used both for the scale of degrees away from the physical towards the spirit, but also only for the spiritual proper.

The temperature reached as high as 2,500 degrees Kelvin during the tests. High temperatures mean high acceleration.

The temperature of the gulf, which I believe is 1 or 2 degrees higher than normal, clearly has been a factor for the power of these hurricanes, and it seems to be spurring discussion about what we need to do to address sea-level rise, coastal storms and a future that could be the result of global warming,

The temperature gets up to 85, 90 degrees and it gets pretty ripe in there. You're not in there reading the paper, that's for sure.

The sunshine stays today, but the 70s don't. Temperatures will be about 20 degrees cooler today than they were yesterday.

The sort of people you meet in a Japanese company will be the best English speakers with a couple of degrees and possibly a greater knowledge of the English language than yourself.

Sophomore year was a total 180 degrees from my freshman year. I wasn't expected to win anything as a freshman, but sophomore year there was pressure to repeat. I like that kind of pressure.

Temperatures will drop another five to 10 degrees over the next 24 hours. Winds will pick up and race through the Gorge. Gusts at the west end might reach 50 mph. Wind chill temperatures will drop to dangerous levels, -10 to -20 degree levels.

Temperatures throughout Northwest Europe have dipped below normal. Temperatures in England, northern France and Germany will be 4 to 10 degrees below normal on Friday and through the weekend. The cold looks set to continue further out as well.

Temperatures in New York have been averaging about 8 degrees above normal so far this month. Temperatures will get closer to the norm later in the week before warming up for the weekend.

Temperatures have been running 20 to 25 degrees above normal. We're knocking on the door of one of the 10 warmest Januarys.

Russian women like to be feminine. Even if it's minus-10 degrees and snowing, a Russian woman will still be in her stilettos.

Rather than thinking about it mechanically, I can go with my instincts. I'm 360 degrees since the day I started last year.

Our customers count on us to keep the lights on and the natural gas flowing, no matter if it's 90 degrees or 9 degrees outside. That is a responsibility that we take very seriously. These investments enable us to keep those promises and deliver quality service to our customers.

Other concerns are snakes and bugs, ... It's 92 degrees with 100 percent humidity. They are praying for no rain for a while.

People get concerned when temperatures at night get very high. With temperatures being 10 degrees higher, nightly minimums will get high as well, and people find that uncomfortable.

Officers seek masters degrees, enlisted people seek associate degrees, bachelor's degrees and some master's degrees.

The most interesting thing going is that it will be 10 degrees below normal by Friday and going into next week.

Some sailors are education junkies. A lot have earned college degrees because of programs like PACE.

Once you reach a certain temperature, it feels the same whether you're in Oregon at 32 degrees or North Dakota at 32 below. It's an opportunity to get an education free, a chance to go someplace different.

That thou mayest win to the sweetness of God's love, I set here three degrees of love, in the which thou shouldst be aye waxing.

You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.

You need to dress for running or cycling like it's 10 to 15 degrees warmer than it is. Because once you get out exercising ... heart rate up, your blood pumping, you're going to feel warmer than you felt when walking out the door.

This is a wide angle endoscope - about 100 degrees - a new way which gives an extremely sharp image. This is what I call a revolution in endoscopy.

The Whole Foods store in Toronto is using it in their seafood section. They've actually increased the lights on their fish and reduced the amount of heat on them by 10 degrees using one of our systems.

This feels like 80 degrees here. I'm from Ohio, and I played at Minnesota. I've played in cold weather.

This arrogance thing... I've had that my whole life. I flip between, 'Oh really? Oh, thank you. Wow. That's amazing' and, 'Yeah! Of course I am.' They're both varying degrees of a self-defence mechanism. It can be from minute to minute that I change.

A lot of people with technology and business degrees are unemployed or working in garment factories, way below what they're educated for.

They finally all played well. It was 20-25 mph winds and it was 48 degrees when it started. But the team played well and persevered.

This is what we should do when it's 54 degrees in Chicago in January.

They're calling for 28, 29 degrees for an hour or two. We're going to be in good shape.

There's been a pattern change and we are looking at temperatures in New York which will average 6 to 10 degrees below normal. Things will bottom out on Wednesday when temperatures should fall to 18 degrees when the normal low is 34.

According to preliminary data, 2006 fell just three-tenths of a degree short of the record average of 40.7 degrees set in January 1933. However, many areas of the state did break local records, including Kansas City, Joplin, Rolla, and West Plains.

It's a beautiful day outside but we know the weather is going to change. Our meteorologists are closely monitoring the weather conditions. We recognize that just a few degrees difference in either direction will make a difference in what kind of precipitation falls.

It's 65 degrees and it's beautiful outside today. It's just like spring.

It's 180 degrees different than what it was in the '60s.

It was cold last night when we walked out to the bullpen before the game, and when we walked in after the game, it felt 20 degrees colder.

It was really staggering to stand there on that slab on what was their City Hall and you look around 360 degrees and you see nothing there that could be salvaged.