Example quotes

Explore a collection of thought-provoking and inspiring quotes in the Example category, inspiring you to live life to its fullest and embrace every opportunity that comes your way.

There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else.

- Ed O'Brien

And when it is done, we ought to follow the example by disarming ourselves.

- George William Norris

Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don't hurt anyone on the way up. I don't think I did that.

- Dawn Fraser

I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.

- Andrew Greeley

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.

- Arthur Wellesley

I'm very much a lead by example person.

- Alexandra Paul

Well, there's that girl on the Internet - although this isn't an example of someone who doesn't know they're on - but there's a girl on the Internet who posts one photograph every two minutes from her bedroom.

- Peter Weir

For example, I wouldn't hesitate to sit somebody down if he wasn't performing, even if he was the No. 1 player in the world. I've been sat down before.

- Payne Stewart

Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.

- Edmund Husserl

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

- Rebecca West

There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring.

- Marilyn Hacker

There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive.

- Ralph Merkle

Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.

- Phaedrus

I'll give you an example. Henry, the old black guy who cooks the corn bread, he worked on the railroads for about 20 years so he knows how to lay and build track.

- Marc Singer

If, for example, all the codons are triplets, then in addition to the correct reading of the message, there are two incorrect readings which we shall obtain if we do not start the grouping into sets of three at the right place.

- Francis Crick

Why do I jave to be an example for your kid? You be an example for your own kid.

- Bob Gibson

Let's take flight simulation as an example. If you're trying to train a pilot, you can simulate almost the whole course. You don't have to get in an airplane until late in the process.

- Roy Romer

And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their services.

- Robert McChesney

I think the greatest way to learn is to learn by someone's example.

- Tobey Maguire

The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton