Formula Quotations

When you are allowed to study different disciplines, you redefine your idea of success. You learn to appreciate multiple disciplines simultaneously and you learn that there is no one formula to anything.

I don't know what my formula is. I only know I like my characters to walk in clouds. I like a little bit of the fairy tale. Let others photograph the ugliness of the world. I don't want to distress people.

If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari.

American people are very patriotic, but there is no driver to get behind and support. I don't see why Formula One cannot be something America is a part of. I wouldn't say it's too European at all.

Everything in Formula 1 has been sterilised now, the whole thing is controlled too much.

Everybody who knows Formula 1 knows McLaren and knows that it is the greatest team in Formula 1.

Some days, I know beauty techniques like it's my job, and other days I can't do my makeup for the life of me. So I find it easiest to just put on mineral veil and a little mascara and call it a day. I use Physician's Formula and Bare Minerals every day of my life.

I never think about a shoot before I do it. Because there's no formula for people. What I try to do is to strip everything away rather than go in with preconceived notions. If I do that, I might miss a gem or a jewel that the person is offering me.

I'm an extremist so I'm either hated or loved. I think it's down to when I first got to Formula One not always knowing what I was saying, saying things that mean one thing but people were taking the other way and then people don't forget.

Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.

Formula creation is magnitudes harder for computer algorithms than actually executing within a formula. But once the genre is created and the formula is known, then the computer can do the repetitive task of executing within the genre.

Simple formula for the actor: prove you're creative enough to get the job, sane enough to keep the job, and hungry enough to give up everything else to keep them happy.

Caterham realises corporate America and the American consumer market... is the largest consumer market in the world and it is something that needs to be part of Formula One.

Corporate America doesn't really have an interest in Formula One because there is nothing American in it at this point. It is European and all made by Europeans. Until that changes, the interest isn't going to be at the level it needs to be.

I have a lot of great racing memories growing up in Europe as a young boy - playing with car parts on my dad's desk, watching the races on Sunday afternoons to try and spot him on TV, even having the chance to go to Formula 1 races where he was working.

One of my main problems with music is that the basic formula is always the same: verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, verse, chorus, chorus, chorus, end. One of the bands that changed that was The Beatles. If you listen to 'Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey.' It's three verses, bridge, end.

When Governor Romney was out here, I told him, I said, 'we are following the formula of streamlining regulations, being job creating friendly, balancing budgets, cutting taxes, and, you know, using common sense. And if you get to be president, we are going to do more of that.'

There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.

Beginning runners come in all shapes, sizes and pre-existing conditions, so there's no magic formula for determining exactly how much basic running is needed before you start speedwork. Most experts, though, recommend three or four months of preparation.

I enjoy playing golf, but no, I don't think golf helps driving. It does take my mind away from driving, though; every time I play golf, I don't think about Formula 1.

There's no formula for success in this business. You just do the best you can.

Age, style, where you come from, where you were born, it's different every time, which, to me, is refreshing because it says that there isn't any one thing, one formula or kind of character that makes a great comedian. Everybody has had a different approach.

After karting in Venezuela, I came to Europe in 1998 to compete in international kart races, which was great for me to get experience racing outside my country. After consistently being at the top, I decided to move to Italian Formula Renault.

Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.

If Quebeckers want Jean Charest, well, they can choose him. It's never a winning formula to divide Quebeckers.

You should never get away from where the real foundation of Formula One has been, which is Europe. Of course, there is nothing wrong with the expansion to countries like Asia, China, Malaysia.

People equate patents with secrecy, that secrecy is what patents were designed to overcome. That's why the formula for Coca-Cola was never patented. They kept it as a trade secret, and they've outlasted patent laws by 80 years or more.

There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.

Even though people involved in racing think that it has a big sporting stage, it is a minority sport compared to some of the other high-profile events: football, Formula One or golf.

Sometimes I try to sell shows with a female lead to networks, and that isn't something that's been a proven formula for them, so they reject it. I do feel like men get the funniest roles in movies.

One of the things that's pretty unique about nu shu, when you look especially at these old letters and stories that have been saved, is that there are certain lines that are very standard that are used again and again. It's almost like a formula in a sense, so that these certain lines come up again and again.

Although there is no solution that is easy, and there is no one formula that will work for everyone with a heartache or a concern, there is One who cares very much about your situation, and He knows what you should do. That is our Father in Heaven.

Openly speaking, the only formula that will save Greece's future is more trade with Turkey and more investment with Turkey.

Whether you are from Minnesota, Wisconsin or any other Northern tier state, you are not going to like the reimbursement formula. The problem we face is that we wouldn't have that formula if a majority of the states didn't like it, and they have the majority of the votes.

Less revenue, more people, more freight, more gridlock - that is not a formula for success.

There is no magical formula for winning a Nobel Prize.

When I turned 16, I got my driver's license like the rest of my classmates, but I also got an extra present: a two-day practice session in a Formula Ford: my first open-wheel racing car and the first step on the ladder toward becoming a professional driver.

For anybody to say well this is not Hip Hop and that's not Hip Hop, that is not the way the formula was laid down. It was for the people who were going to continue take anything musically and string it along.

There is a real formula to writing music, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. It's very formulaic. The subject matter that you can address in pop music is somewhat restricted. It just doesn't allow that same emotive quality that you can put into poetry.

You arrive at Formula One being very skeptical, how far can your talent deal with all this, and then you understand those guys are human and pretty reasonable, and finally succeeding in winning your first race, in circumstance as such, it was just an amazing moment.

There is so much more demand for Formula One than it can supply. You have governments investing in circuits all over the world, and the private sector sometimes has a tough time competing with that.

After the comedy boom of the '80s, there was a certain formula that comedians had to do and could do in order to be successful touring comedians, and those were mainly observational comedians who had a very strict structure of what made an act, and I think it was very performance oriented.

We didn't want to worry about the formula that has been implanted into our brains - this verse/pre-chorus/chorus format. When we were writing 'The Papercut Chronicles,' we had no idea about any of that. We didn't know how to count bars or how to write what's considered a well-formatted pop song.

I think that some people still think that the formula other than gospel still is not strong enough to get that crossover appeal to people enough that they would play it all the time, or nonchurch people would accept it, but I disagree.

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

You've got these big studio films and these tiny independent films now. It's very much either/or. With the independent films, it's always a beautiful risk - it might never be seen. With the studio films, you're conforming to the formula of what's always been in place.

I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.

First time I looked at a Formula One car in person, I just stared at the cockpit, figuring I'd never get in there. The drivers wear the whole car like a tight-fitting suit.

The simplest formula for the new conception of morality, which is beginning to be opposed to the moral dogma still esteemed by all society, but especially by the women, might be summed up in these words: Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

When, in any ethical department, unity is attained between outer demands and inner desires, between nature and conscience, between the needs of society and the individual, the moral formula is void because inner necessity then makes it psychically and physically impossible to break the outer law. Thus, true morality is attained.

If I walk up to a can of Red Bull, I'm thinking about Formula One; I'm thinking about incredible athletic performances. And it helps me choose that can over something else to either side of it.

Monza is Formula One's oldest circuit and a favourite amongst the drivers', ... It has a very special atmosphere and provides a real challenge with its combination of long corners and very fast straights.

One of the issues that I've raised on the Foreign Relations Committee, and I raised it when Secretary Locke came for his confirmation hearing, is, you know, it is in our benefit to develop a workable, positive formula with China.

Pontiac congratulates Rhys Millen and RMR for their unrelenting fight and the well-deserved championship title. Pontiac was the first American brand to enter Formula D competition and we're extremely proud to have the GTO quick reach the leadership position in 2005.

Only time will tell if it is a good day for Formula One or a bad day for Formula One, but unfortunately, and I don't like to say this, I don't think it will prove to be a good day.

I wish there was some paradigm shift in the economics of independent music and we could afford to keep this going for longer. It's just kind of expensive. As long as we're still having a really good time and as long as we're good friends, this seems like the perfect time to not necessarily quit but change the formula a little bit.

Nobody came out of Indianapolis with anything positive and perpetuating the negatives was clearly not constructive to Formula One,

When I began to drive Formula I in the 1970's, the odds of surviving was 7 to 1. Incredible high risks. The odds of surviving now are like 800 to one.

When I came to Formula One the first year, he came to me and he said, 'No! You really made it! I remember you,

Make no mistake, that formula (which significantly discounts the revenue streams upon which the residual is based) is clearly not applicable in this case.

One mistake I've made in this business was passing on Dan at an early time in his career, ... Obviously, he has the history, has shown he can adapt very quickly to this formula of racing, and is very comfortable racing at the front. I think it's going to be a great team.

One little pit stop in a Formula 500 race. It's just profit taking.

No exact formula can dictate a resolution in fact-intensive cases such as this,

I don't have a formula for it. You give it your all, and you prepare in between. Half the battle is understanding that.

I don't have a formula for it. You just prepare every day and try to be ready. We had lost three in a row, and I wanted to help out. I'm just glad the day went well for us.

I'd like to come back. I'm certainly not finished with Formula One.

If this is a formula that's going to carry us the rest of the season, I don't know. It's a pretty good formula for us. We'll see if we can keep it going.

I don't know what happened, the emotion. Like Fernando said before, he was thinking about what happened in 2005. I was thinking about what happened in my 15 years of Formula One. I think I needed some privacy,

Let's put it this way: I am not even sure at the moment we will be in Formula One in 2008.

Since winning the Formula One World Championship back in 1992 and eventually retiring in 1995, I have spent valuable time with my family.

She has no room in her life for self-pity. She's about the business of what she's doing. It's a formula that works for her.

So it's based on the formula that you can only get smarter by playing a smarter opponent. Who is the ultimate opponent? Yourself.

So far this year at least, we have been turning the ball over and we have not been getting turnovers. That formula will kill you.

The only part of the formula they have going for them right now is some of our people are ethically challenged, ... The rest of it doesn't fit--they don't have ideas, they don't have people on our side retiring.

Kim Green discovered Dan when he watched him through Formula Atlantic and Indy Lights,

Gibby and I have felt each other out the past two years and came up with a formula that works for me.

From a prestige standpoint, the U.S. needs to host Formula 1. And I think Formula 1, they know they need the U.S. as well. So many companies that are global are based in the United States support Formula 1.

I feel good about our chances. I also feel good that in our league, 17 wins has been a formula (for the NCAA tournament).

I came up here for my first Formula Atlantic race in October of 1974 and watched that car win the race, and I thought, 'Man, there is nothing better than that,' ... I dreamed that when I got to Formula One I could drive a car like that.

If you are at all romantic about racing, it is so much fun to drive these cars and to really appreciate what they were like in a great era of Formula One,

Formula One comes to America once a year. I think that is the fact that's going to limit the exposure here. Formula One's not big in America to the major public. For any driver growing up, it's a dream to make it to Formula One. It was a dream of mine as a kid. Fortunately I'm living it now.

Formula One is a strange world but if you have clear values, you can maintain the separation between truth and fiction. If people praise you, you cannot let it go to your head, because at the next race you could be criticized.

I don't think Americans embrace Formula One like every other country embraces Formula One. You really don't get the support like a driver from, say, Germany would. It's a lot more difficult for sure.

I don't want Indian youngsters to go through what I experienced, hunting for sponsorships and trying to find my way up. Ten years ago, most people would have laughed at the thought of an Indian making it to Formula 1. But I've changed that and I believe I've paved the way for Indian youngsters. We're a country of a billion people and I'm sure a lot more racing talent can be found here.

I don't think we're going in with any formula with this game, ... I think you could see as few as two or as many as four. How it's going to come out, I really don't know.

I don't think we're going in with any formula with this game. I think you could see as few as two or as many as four. How it's going to come out, I really don't know.

I have been fighting formula fights all year. We can't make the mistake that only large urban areas are at risk.

I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.

I have a lot of admiration for Fernando Alonso, our careers are fairly similar because he also came very quickly into Formula One,

Today, ABC advised the guild that it intends to pay residuals to performers based on the videocassette formula -- a formula that does not apply to this new platform. ABC's actions are flatly inconsistent with our collective-bargaining agreements and with labor law obligations and fail to fairly compensate performers for the use of their work and images.

To find a career to which you are adapted by nature, and then to work hard at it, is about as near to a formula for success and happiness as the world provides. One of the fortunate aspects of this formula is that, granted the right career has been found, the hard work takes care of itself. Then hard work is not hard work at all.

What we will do is publish the 2008 regulations and there will be a Formula One World Championship in 2008,

With me it was F3000 and Formula One. I don't really see that transition being made very easily now.

We've expressed our readiness for further negotiations and reaching a formula for solving this problem.

We've got to look at that budget and we've got to look at it in places to cut. When you have 14 more administrators than the formula ... I want to cut some administrators.

I agree in the sense that the real problem of the funding formula is the shrinking pie.

We mentor the merchant on how to successfully sell online, and we think we have the formula for driving local shoppers to local businesses.

He could become dehydrated from not having formula made the proper way or given the amount he needs or the amount of times he needs to feed a day.