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I'm a big fan of outlining. Here's the theory: If I outline, then I can see the mistakes I'm liable to make. They come out more clearly in the outline than they do in the pages.
Cynthia Voigt
Mistakes
Big
Liable
Out
See
Outline
More
Outlining
Clearly
Come
Make
Big Fan
Than
Fan
Then
Pages
Theory
Here
The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. Search theory, which emphasized the need to gather information, was joined by models that featured asymmetric information, the case in which information differed across individual agents.
Dale T. Mortensen
Economics
Case
Area
Featured
Joined
Individual
Emphasized
Developments
New
Decade
Models
Information
Which
Agents
Across
Theory
Search
Need
Gather
What you present as the gospel will determine what you present as discipleship. If you present as the gospel what is essentially a theory of the atonement, and you say, 'If you accept this theory of the atonement, your sins are forgiven, and when you die you will be received into heaven,' there is no basis for discipleship.
Dallas Willard
You
Will
Say
Determine
Atonement
Accept
Gospel
Sins
Die
Forgiven
Heaven
Essentially
Your
Theory
Present
Received
Basis
Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.
Dalton Trumbo
Love
Truth
You
People
Matter
Neither
Take
Understand
Exist
Lot
Happen
Einstein
Them
Taxes
Theory
Now
Things
I have this theory that your first film is always your best film in some way. I always try to get back to that moment when you're not relying on things you've done before.
Danny Boyle
Best
You
Try
First
Before
Back
Way
Some
Relying
Always
Get
Done
Your
Theory
Moment
Film
Things
I've purposely stayed away from reading much about postmodern theory, and most everything I have read just bored me to tears. I don't think anybody's written about it, or very few have, with any verve.
Dave Eggers
Me
Tears
Reading
Few
Think
Everything
Bored
Stayed
Postmodern
About
Purposely
Written
Most
Read
Very
Any
Just
Anybody
Much
Theory
Away
I have never believed in the Wizard of Oz theory of consulting, that I am all-knowing and all-seeing, and that everyone around me is kind of a backbencher.
David Axelrod
Me
Everyone
Kind
Consulting
Never
Around
Am
Wizard
Wizard Of Oz
Oz
Theory
Believed
One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness.
David Bohm
Reality
Older
Kind
Some
Unbroken
Prevails
Sees
Features
Recovers
Abstract
Drops
Thus
New
Most
New Kind
Commitments
Essential
Which
Forms
Theories
Derived
Theory
Wholeness
Deeper
Basic
Needed
Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the world by perceiving one's sense-data, or something like that.
David Chalmers
World
Perception
Sense
Perceiving
Something
Data
More
Like
Because
Than
Controversial
Much
Theory
Associated
I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.
David Eddings
Science
Predict
Hesitate
Extreme
General
True
Period
Science Fiction
Opinion
Optimistic
Fiction
Whether
Mankind
Then
Theory
Popularity
It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.
David Gower
Best
You
Man
Suits
Responsibility
Own
Way
Give
Him
Accept
His
Question
Up
Then
Theory
Helping
Actions
Prepare
Quantum field theory was originally developed for the treatment of electrodynamics, immediately after the completion of quantum mechanics and the discovery of the Dirac equation.
David Gross
Field
Completion
Immediately
Developed
Quantum
Equation
Quantum Mechanics
Discovery
After
Theory
Mechanics
Originally
Treatment
The Big Bang theory is the idea that if we go back early enough in the history of the universe - and we can do this, of course, by looking at starlight coming to us from billions of years ago - we will see a very hot and dense period where the universe was much smaller, denser, and hotter.
David Gross
History
Will
Looking
Big
Universe
Enough
Back
See
Smaller
Hot
Idea
Hotter
Period
Course
Big Bang
Coming
Go
Years
Years Ago
Dense
Very
Bang
The History Of
Where
Us
Much
Theory
Billions
Early
When I was at Berkeley, the framework of quantum field theory could calculate the dynamics of electromagnetism. It could roughly describe the motion of the weak nuclear force, radiation. But it hit a brick wall with the strong interaction, the binding force.
David Gross
Strong
Field
Framework
Weak
Berkeley
Could
Calculate
Force
Quantum
Motion
Hit
Wall
Interaction
Dynamics
Radiation
Theory
Brick
Brick Wall
Describe
Roughly
Binding
Nuclear
The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science.
David Hilbert
Science
Construction
Harmoniously
Relations
Further
More
Developed
Between
Does
Mathematical
Branches
Hitherto
Proceed
Separated
Theory
A preoccupation with theory has been a defensive response by academic biographers in this country, I submit, to the condescension of traditional humanists and social scientists pervading higher education for many years.
David Levering Lewis
Education
Higher Education
Country
Submit
Defensive
Response
Has-Been
Higher
Academic
Scientists
Traditional
Been
Years
Social
Theory
Preoccupation
Many
There's a theory in gameplay, particularly in first person shooters, that sometimes you don't want to have that much of a character because then it destroys the experience of the player being that character.
David S. Goyer
Character
You
Experience
Sometimes
First
Destroys
Particularly
Because
First-Person
Person
Being
Want
Then
Much
Theory
Player
Gerald Jonas's book about stuttering is called 'The Disorder of Many Theories.' Back theory seems to suffer from the same 'Rashomon' effect: as with almost every human problem, there is no dearth of answers and no answer.
David Shields
Book
Problem
Every
Back
About
Seems
Almost
Stuttering
Answer
Answers
Dearth
Effect
Same
Human
Disorder
Theories
Theory
Many
Suffer
I used to have a theory actually that, if you've had a good childhood, a good marriage and a little bit of money in the bank, you're going to make a lousy comedian.
David Steinberg
Good
You
Marriage
Money
Good Marriage
Bit
Had
Comedian
Make
Lousy
Going
Bank
Childhood
Little
Little Bit
Used
Theory
Good Childhood
Actually
Many studies or theories by political scientists fit some subset of cases that a court decides, but literally no theory can account for all of them, particularly when it comes to studying a complex institution like the Supreme Court.
David Stras
Political
Complex
Some
Cases
Studies
Studying
Institution
Like
Particularly
Supreme
Supreme Court
Court
Scientists
Fit
Account
Literally
Decide
Them
Theories
Theory
Many
A valid scientific theory is predictive, verifiable, and replicable. To me, that's beautiful.
Dean Ornish
Beautiful
Me
Valid
Scientific
Verifiable
Scientific Theory
Predictive
Theory
I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.
Diane Cilento
Sometimes
Learn
Learnt
Still
Ambitious
Very
Movement
Which
Skill
Teach
Theory
Economic theory dictates that the value of a company is basically the present value of its future profits. To estimate Facebook's value through its future profits, we need to have a view on its user growth and how this will evolve in the next 10 to 50 years.
Didier Sornette
Future
Facebook
Will
Value
Evolve
Economic
Through
Economic Theory
How
Years
Dictates
Estimate
Next
View
Theory
User
Company
Growth
Present
Profits
Basically
Need
Evolution is a fact. It is the best explanation of what is known from observations. It's a theory as powerful as the theory of gravity.
Donald Johanson
Best
Evolution
Fact
Observations
Powerful
Known
Explanation
Theory
Gravity
As Development Secretary, I have seen in the developing world that climate change there is not a theory, is not a future threat: it is a contemporary crisis.
Douglas Alexander
Future
Change
World
Seen
Secretary
Crisis
Threat
Developing
Developing World
Development
Contemporary
Climate
Climate Change
Theory
And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world.
Douglas Sirk
World
Picture
Relativity
Physical
Only
Physical World
Remained
Remains
Attended
Still
Proven
Been
His
Lectures
Began
Different
Einstein
Really
Theory
Now
Suggested
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