Stem Quotes

For many phenomena, 80% of consequences stem from 20% of the causes.

. . . [R]estlessness usually stems from pride and from being discontented with one's lot in life.

Love thou rose, yet leave it on its stem.

My greatest ideas stem from running.

The thing that my parents have always taught me is that beauty comes from the inside, and also that beauty stems from health.

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.

Flower and thorn are in the same stem.

This idea of the body as a feast, it stems from Giuseppe Arcimboldo, moves to Viennese artists like Günter Brus, and then you have Salvador Dalí of course, then much later, Marina Abramović and Ulay, with their nude series in Italy. It's an ongoing conversation. There was nothing cruel about Méret's Oppenheim piece.

Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.

What we do stems directly from what we believe.

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

When I was in high school I was 250 pounds.

When I was in high school, I was voted most likely to succeed.

I'm a geek, I like to code, I even like to use spreadsheets when I cook.

Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have just what everyone else has and to have what no one has.

Confidence in oneself stems from the trust one has in knowledge.

True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness

Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it

All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.

Sometimes I see movies and I get almost angry - because I'm like, I can never make that movie. It stems from a jealousy, but from a good kind of jealousy. It's inspirational.

I think me getting into performance stems from my mother's inability to do those things. I guess you have these things you want your kids to do that you couldn't do, and you have to start early to do them.

I would say my relationship with my father has had a bigger impact on me than I knew. Even with the things that I love, the things that I am attracted to. A lot of it stems from the things that I've seen in my life as a child.

Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.

We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience.

That's the original problem from which the escalator mess stems. There's just too many of them.

To keep myself anonimys in the press is that I felt was the right thing to do, in terms of making music. It's just about letting people hear it and then deciding for themselves whether they want to find out more and discover it for themselves. Everything stems from that.

The possibility of pain is where love stems from