Ingrained Quotations

The most important thing, the biggest love of my life, is my snooker. I've never been so emotionally ingrained in something - in a person, an object, anything - as I have in snooker.

I think prejudice has gotten to a point where a lot of people hold biases in their mind and don't even realize that they're doing it, because it's deeply ingrained in the fabric of what it means to be an American.

Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus.

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

I feel like that's so ingrained in so many children that you are so confined and repressed growing up that, anything you do, you have to rebel against it at some point.

The concept of surveillance is ingrained in our beings. God was the original surveillance camera.

The only way to make something cheaply today is to have it mass-produced. For example, you wear the same shoes as everyone else. If you had a fabber, you could custom-make shoes that perfectly fit your feet. Three-dimensional printing will help us move away from the mass consumption that is so deeply ingrained in our culture.

I've always been someone who's really tried to live in the here and now. My memory isn't very good so maybe that's why, but it just seems like I've been living this life, my current chapter, for a really long time and I don't really remember what it was like before. It's just been sort of ingrained in me. What I deal with day to day.

I can say pretty confidently that I am not the right guy to do a superhero movie, just because I was not a comic book kid. I don't know that mythology, and I don't have it ingrained in me in the way that a lot of these other directors do.

The importance of education is ingrained in Scottish history.

My mom is big on moisturizer and water. She always reminds me to drink a lot of water and wear sunglasses because I always forget them when I go out, even though they are one of my favorite accessories. She always reminds me about wrinkles, and always did, so it's kind of been ingrained into me.

My driving habits are so ingrained that the driving examiner would fail me in the first mile. That's provided he hadn't died of a heart attack by then.

I do not run late. Growing up on a farm, you're just not late when it's time to do chores or go to work. I grew up Mennonite, and so that work ethic and timeliness was just ingrained in me from a very young age.

It's been ingrained in me, from my parents and others, this idea of making a difference in the world.

People are mistaken to view cinema as some sort of gimmick. It's very much ingrained in the ways in which we understand each other.

Of course. I'm a very liberal-minded person, and I believe that all kinds of people should live in as much peace and harmony as humanly possible on this planet, regardless of their differences. I have always believed that, I was always taught that as a boy, and that's ingrained in my thinking.

Now we have much more ingrained training programs, and much more clearly defined paths of progression through our organization.

When you commit to a delivery alteration or different focus, which we've done with almost every single pitcher on the staff, it sometimes takes a while to get the consistent release point. It takes a while to be able to throw the baseball without concentrating on that alteration. Once it's ingrained in there to where they can throw without concentrating on that and put all of their focus on getting hitters out, then they pitch better.

Sentiment is somewhat ingrained now regarding bird flu, but there is not a sea change taking place. People suspect there are risks on the horizon but not so material just yet.

Simpler is better -- despite popular wisdom and a marketplace ingrained in the creation of products that are ever smaller, faster and more feature laden.

I would say it is not only an act of statesmanship but an act of faith. Both our countries were departing from something which has been well ingrained in the mind-sets of most of our people. We knew there was going to be significant opposition to change. Change is always viewed with suspicion and often viewed as subversive.

Greed is so ingrained in the human psyche. I don?t know how we can stop it.

Freedom of speech and freedom of expression are so ingrained in our society we rarely stop to think about it. I'm able to write what I want--dark fiendish plots without fear. . . . I can criticize the FBI, the CIA, the president and Congress without giving it a thought.

Hunting is deeply ingrained in our folklore and heritage. Just like Richard Nixon watched the Washington Redskins play football, here you go kill Bambi or some birds and you're part of one of the boys.

Textbooks often reflect one perspective. There's a lot more history than what the textbooks tell us. (Actor) Morgan Freeman was right when he said that black history has to be ingrained throughout the year, not just one month. We're starting to do that a little bit. Change is starting to come.

Surely those are the kind of things that are going to be more ingrained in the long run.

Though women are no longer barred from university laboratories and scientific societies, the idea that they are innately less suited to mathematical science is deeply ingrained in our cultural genes.

Web users are conducting more searches not because they can't find what they're looking for, but because search as a utility has become deeply ingrained into people's everyday lives.

cultural, yes, but a lot of it comes from the very deeply ingrained belief system here. And it's that belief system that motivates people to respond this way.

The whole 'starting with stories, ending with novels' thing, it's probably too ingrained in the industry and the psyche to change it.

We know that implementing the convention will not be easy, as smoking is an ingrained habit in China, but the government has made clear its commitment to take action.

We've had the biggest hits in the history of sports marketing with the U.S. Olympic apparel and the Canadian Olympic apparel. It's obviously ingrained in the public consciousness.

This brazen attack, carried out in broad daylight, ingrained impunity more than any other single act in recent Cambodian history. But that appears to have been one of its purposes.

In boys, it's ingrained in their heads that to dunk is just the highlight of basketball, whereas for girls, our shooting technique, making baskets and free throws is taught more. It's such a sexist approach to the sport sometime. Men aren't encouraging their little girls to try to work on their hops. They're encouraging them to work on their jump shots and the fundamentals of the game.

In our country there is that freedom of choice that's ingrained in people who want to have the opportunity to be able to select what's the very best for them.

The bottom line and you won't get any company to say it is that Wall Street and strip clubs are ingrained together and have been for a long time.

The notion of free shipping has become ingrained in people's minds, especially if you're talking about larger items or higher-price items.

Internet services are ingrained in Windows 2000 from the ground up: The integrated browser and Web server, XML, Active Server Page support, transaction support -- from soup to nuts, client and server.

The idea that wines get better with age is ingrained in our consciousness, whether we like it or not. But that doesn't mean it's true for all wines.

It's the way Costco built their business model, and now it's ingrained in their culture.

It's just ingrained into a player now. It's more famous here than anyplace else in the world, ... The only thing about it here is it's followed by, 'Let's score some runs!'

This unwillingness to admit guilt is traced back to the Garden of Eden. Adam blamed Eve and she blamed the serpent. It is an ingrained trait because of sin.

They're my favorite singers, and their style is my favorite, ... I always loved it, from early, early on. I can remember coming down the steps when I was 10 years old, and I'd here Sinatra in my house, or Bobby Drain, and my father would be playing them. It just kind of got ingrained in me, and it just grew on me.

I can't tell you what new mascot would be appropriate for us at this point. For the past seven years, I have been an Indian and that's ingrained in me.

I don't want to be stuck in one spot. My childhood was spent moving around. We were total nomads. Like gypsies, just moving from one place to another all the time. That's kind of ingrained into my psyche, into my being. I couldn't stand being in one spot for too long.