Contingent Quotes

A company`s success is contingent on the success of its employees,

There is a contingent of the digital-effects community to whom that is the holy grail - to create photographically real humans. To me that is the dumbest goal that you could possibly have. What`s wonderful about the medium of animation isn`t recreating reality. It`s distilling it.

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.

If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.

Russia`s membership in the G-8 remains contingent upon its commitment to enacting democratic reforms and respecting democratic values.

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.

Success in confronting terrorism on the regional or international levels is contingent upon addressing its root causes and protecting the right of peoples under foreign occupation to resistance,

This is all contingent on the weather.

If you look at the (Howard Street train) tunnel fire for instance, we evacuated a small contingent of people in that area, plus Camden yards on top of that. But if you were at the Inner Harbor having dinner, you didn`t even know the tunnel fire was going on,

The actual infinite arises in three contexts: first when it is realized in the most complete form, in a fully independent otherworldly being, in Deo, where I call it the Absolute Infinite or simply Absolute; second when it occurs in the contingent, created world; third when the mind grasps it in abstracto as a mathematical magnitude, number or order type.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.