Su-chin Pak

Conversations about money, culture, power, class - it's at the center of my identity. I think it's a combination of being born to immigrant parents, growing up relatively poor, and really living in a world where formal institutions, like banks and anywhere that you had to sign a contract, was really feared and avoided at all costs.

South Korean Journalist

Sean M. Carroll

Science is a way of getting knowledge. It's a method. It's a method that really relies on making mistakes. We propose ideas, they are usually wrong, and we test them against the data. Scientists do this in a formal way. It's a way that everyone can go through life; that's how we should be teaching science from a very young age.

American Scientist

Giuseppe Zanotti

Formal is formal. I can't wear sneakers all the time. Sometimes, I wear other shoes. It's not my challenge designing formal - it's so boring - but it's still important. I sell a lot of classic black sneakers made from every material because everyone loves black, and if you mix and match material, you get an opera.

Italian Designer

Preity Zinta

As an actress, I never went to film school, and I think if I had gone to film school, I would have started with a great advantage. If you have a strong intent to do anything in life, you can do it, but it always helps to have formal training.

Indian Actress

Philip Emeagwali

Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the cure for AIDS.

Nigerian Scientist

Khaled Hosseini

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing.

Afghani Novelist

Steve Allen

It often seems that, for whatever strange reasons, comedians, in addition to their formal performances, have more comic experiences in real life than other people do.

American Entertainer

Ken Jeong

Community' was a very important part of my growth as an actor. I see it as my acting school, not having a lot of formal acting training.

American Actor

Ozwald Boateng

Shirt collars are very important to me. Putting a very soft shirt collar with a formal suit doesn't work for me at all.

English Designer

Sharon Salzberg

What you learn about pain in formal meditation can help you relate to it in your daily life.

American Author

Used when specific, upscale clothing is expected or required for an event.

Dress Code

Indicates something is not casual or relaxed, and there's an elevated level of seriousness.

Not Casual

Highlights adherence to traditional customs or established norms.

Tradition

Suggests an environment where playful or informal language is inappropriate.

Serious Context

Conveys a sense of distance or respect, avoiding personal familiarity.

Professional Distance

Used when events are significant and involve official ceremonies or rituals.

Ceremony Significance

Used when an event calls for solemnity and respect, often in relation to traditions.

Solemn Observance

Relates to methods or procedures followed in a system, often in academic or official contexts.

Procedure Focus

Emphasizes form over the actual content or substance, valuable in some academic fields.

Structure Over Substance

 Many other factors come up for consideration, as well, including experience, personal loyalties, ethnicity, and gender. The candidates are then thoroughly vetted down to their tax records and payments to domestic help. Once the president interviews the candidate and makes a formal nomination announcement,

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 you need to be there you need to see the mistakes and failures of people around you and indeed as important as formal education is certainly the most important things that cities produce our entrepreneurial talent and measures of entrepreneurship which are crappy which are awful do a remarkable job of

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 after sacrificing his queen and both rooks. But the emergence of formal competitive play in the late 19th century meant that strategic calculation would eventually trump dramatic flair. And with the rise of international competition, chess took on a new geopolitical importance.

A brief history of chess...

 You know, he was brilliant. But he struggled within the world of formal academia. They didn't really know what to make of him. He was working in a patent office when he was making his breakthroughs, because he couldn't even get a teaching position.

Einstein's Escape from...

 others to steer traffic or advance political causes. But there's one whose main purpose is to help people. You may know it as the wheelchair symbol, or a sign for people with disabilities, but its formal title as maintained by the ISO

What does this symbol...

 through its doctrine, along with the required recipe for change that shapes a new member into a true believer. And most importantly, it uses both formal and informal systems of influence and control to keep members obedient,

Why do people join...

 on behalf of men all over the world who feel similar to me, please forgive us for all the ways that we have not relied on your strength. And now I would like to ask you to formally help us, because we cannot do this alone.

Why I'm done trying to...

 This is important, not only for formal contexts, but it also makes communication easier between non-native speakers from different backgrounds. Descriptivism, on the other hand, gives us insight into how our minds work

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 or the world? That's where impeachment comes in. Impeachment isn't the same as actually removing someone from office. Like an indictment in criminal court, it's only the formal accusation that launches a trial,

How does impeachment...

 a formal way attacking the very gonna tear these guys told me that poachers come from outside the area and recruit locals like them to help track the Rhino they were involved in poaching for 15