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It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation. -- Gaston Caperton
He manages to balance Rigor and Mercy. -- Paulo Coelho
Rigor is not a substitute for imagination. -- Gary A. Klein
Rigor is always appropriate when investing in markets, whatever the ultimate conclusions may be. -- Robert Rubin
The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation. -- Marquis de Custine
Rigor pushed too far is sure to miss its aim, however good, as the bow snaps that is bent too stiffly. -- Friedrich Schiller
Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it. -- George Washington
Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license. -- George Chapman
A lot of bands have intense names, like "Rigor Mortis" or "Mortuary". We weren't that intense, we called ourselves "Injured". Later on we changed it to "Acapella" when we were walking out of the pawn shop. -- Mitch Hedberg
Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them? -- Anna Quindlen
Learning and sex until rigor mortis. -- Maggie Kuhn
Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death. -- Tom Robbins
Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth -- John Ford
The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics. -- Lawrence R. Klein
There is no question we need higher academic standards and at the local level the rigor of the Common Core state standards must be the new minimum in classrooms. -- Jeb Bush
Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or exert our minds. They require us to think. -- Oliver DeMille
The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach music with a serious rigor and, at the same time, with a great, affectionate joy. -- Nadia Boulanger
Quantification, experimentation, rigor, repetition, prediction - all of these are part of the experimental sciences. There's an iconography also namely man, and I do mean males in white coats who spin dials and wait for numbers to appear. -- Richard Lewontin
People in theatre work harder than anyone in the world - as far as I'm concerned - as far as sheer output of energy and the rigor and excellence that they maintain doing something every day, or twice a day. -- Jennifer Westfeldt
Mary was made Mother of God to obtain salvation for many who, on account of their wicked lives, could not be saved according to the rigor of Divine justice, but might be saved with the help of her sweet mercy and powerful intercession. -- Saint John Chrysostom
In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game. -- Benjamin Cardozo
Photography mirrored the [nineteenth century] will towards rigor, towards defining details, the need for miniscule description, the long-distance optics, for technology at the service of truth, for concepts of credibility, of objectivity, the need to archive, for the consolidation of institutions like the museum, in short, towards a need to control memory... -- Joan Fontcuberta
Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by numerous examples that the rigorous method is at the same time the simpler and the more easily comprehended. The very effort for rigor forces us to find out simpler methods of proof. -- David Hilbert
Clearly, one does not have to give up being an academic, retreat from rigorous research, or renounce the importance of specialization in order to address major social issues. I don't think you give up theoretical rigor by writing in a way that addresses major social concerns and is at the same time accessible to wider informed general audiences. -- Henry Giroux
I really can't claim ever to have had an exceptionally close relationship with a minister. I'm always there. I pay my pledge. I listen and observe with interest. I'm very sympathetic with the rigor and the aesthetic quality of what they do. Aside from that, I don't have a kind of personal experience with any of them that I could consider privileged, so to speak. -- Marilynne Robinson
Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like. -- Alexander Payne
The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs. -- Margaret Spellings
Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred; a flint will break upon a feather bed. -- John Cleveland
We just can't shake monogamy. It definitely demands a kind of rigor and discipline and selflessness. But it's also fun. -- Claire Danes
I've been a longtime admirer of Condoleezza Rice, because I like her articulateness and style - her toughness and rigor. -- Camille Paglia
You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage. -- Lindsay Duncan
Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness. -- Xavier Niel
The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the 'hard' sciences so brilliantly successful. -- Herbert Simon
The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics. -- Lawrence R. Klein
Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor - the discipline, the call to action. -- Camille Paglia
In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor. -- Morris Raphael Cohen
The comptroller of New York City ought to have all the characteristics of a major corporation's CFO - quiet rigor, obsessive care for detail, incorruptible judgment, an ability to work assiduously behind the scenes with the key stakeholders. -- Tina Brown
I can put together a pretty decent meal from whatever happens to be in the refrigerator and the pantry. I like the challenge of this sort of improvisation, the rigor of limitation and sometimes having to take a risk. -- Chang-Rae Lee
In my own life, when I was most inspired by a teacher, it always involved a real dialogue, a looseness and a real caring and compassion. It was not without rigor, not without discipline, not without standards, but all that was done out of love. -- Michael Goldenberg
I believe in the will. I believe in discipline. I believe in the organization. I believe in the rigor that gives us work. I believe in love as an engine of all things. I believe in the light. I believe in God. I believe in kindness. -- Edgar Ramirez
While many in the social enterprise space often qualify themselves as 'non-profit,' these organizations should instead treat themselves as 'for-purpose.' These organizations should focus on their mission to create social good, while still treating themselves with the same commitment to rigor and discipline as the best for-profits. -- Adam Braun
I started rocking and rolling when Guns N' Roses came out. It wasn't until Garth Brooks came around that I really got back to country. He made it fun again. To me, in country music, the rigor mortis was setting in and it just wasn't fun anymore. Garth brought everyone back over to country and made it cool again. -- Christian Kane
The U.S. has a long history of walking up to the precipice of rigor and then walking away. As voters, let's support leaders who were courageous enough to make the hard decisions necessary to move our system forward. And as parents, let's put our faith in our educators, our children and tests that hold them to their highest potential. -- Wendy Kopp
Conscience is the most dangerous thing you possess. If you wake it up, it may destroy you. To live a life of total moral rigor is not necessarily the way to go. It's the path for very few people. Most people need to come up with some kind of middle ground that satisfies their practical, moral, and philosophical esthetic needs. -- John Patrick Shanley
I found my grandmother dead. It shook me up. I got up to make her breakfast, and I knew it was strange that she wasn't stirring. I went in to wake her, and she was laying in rigor mortis, and I'm done. I called next door, and the kid picked up the phone, and I was so wild, he dropped it. -- Gil Scott-Heron
Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor. -- Leonardo da Vinci
There is no rigorous definition of rigor. -- Morris Kline
Museum collections have given photography rigor, and mortis. -- Bill Jay
Goku: But I'm so hungry, I have rigor mortis! -- Kazuya Minekura
Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis. -- Robert Heilbroner
An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it. -- Edmund Burke
Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination, -- Antonin Artaud
What gets projects done for me is not inspiration. It's curiosity and rigor. -- Andrew Zuckerman
The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor. -- Leonardo da Vinci
How to teach rigor while preserving imagination is an unsolved challenge to education. -- Ralph W. Gerard
The use of mathematics has brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it has also brought mortis. -- Robert Heilbroner
Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don't embrace the status quo. -- Howard Schultz
...and we'll see what happens when we say Yes while this rigor mortis world screams No. -- Isaac Marion
But anything that can be called "rigor" is lost exactly where the things become interesting and non trivial. -- Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov
One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously. -- Carole Maso
Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it's dark -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
I reiterate that the rigor and credibility brought to the world by Monti's government are for us a point of no return. -- Pier Luigi Bersani
The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for it. -- Jacques Hadamard
I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest. -- Graham Hancock
A ground plan is important in terms of its rigor. If your plan is soggy and weak, your production will be soggy and weak. -- David G. Hays
You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time. -- William Blake
If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions. -- Richard P. Feynman
One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage. -- Emile Chartier
Some have argued that the Christian notion of Scripture is not epistemologically sustainable. It's not philosophically possible with rigor to uphold the Christian understanding of Scripture. -- D. A. Carson
Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its rigor. -- Henry Ward Beecher
In Necessary Marriage, I tried to repeat entire phrases without the reader noticing. My work doesn't have the rigor of music, but I hope it alludes to it. -- Dumitru Tepeneag
In intellectual honesty, we should be willing to study and explore the spiritual life with all the rigor and determination we would give to any field of research. -- Richard J. Foster
If you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists rigor, and yields to softness. -- Saint Francis de Sales
Once I really started to understand Frank Stella's work and follow it, there's a certain type of invention and playfulness and extreme rigor with which he kept going forward. -- Frank Stella
Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God's Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this life with consolation, strength, and uncompromising rigor. -- Albert Einstein
A habit of labor in the people is as essential to the health and rigor of their minds and bodies as it is conducive to the welfare of the state. -- Alexander Hamilton
But 'the physical level of rigor' is higher on certainty than the logical one, since reproducible experiments are more reliable than anybody's, be it Hilbert's, Einstein's or GÃ¶del's intuition. -- Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov
In the late 1960s, the New Classical economists saw the same weaknesses in the microfoundations of macroeconomics that have motivated me. They hated its lack of rigor. And they sacked it. -- George Akerlof
We have a lot of rhetoric today about "high rigor" and you often hear terms like that thrown about when discussing the Common Core. But the American education system historically has not embraced intellectual seriousness. -- Dana Goldstein

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