Amber Liu

I was on an army show, and in the army - especially in Korean culture - there's a very, very strict hierarchy. Obviously, you would not talk informally or disrespectfully to your commanding officer. But me, in my limited Korean, I basically told my commanding officer, 'Thou shalt forget!' The Korean public thought it was really funny.

Taiwanese Musician

Anne Carson

I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life.

Canadian Poet

Arunachalam Muruganantham

When I speak a serious subject in an informal and humorous way, it has bigger impact. So much so, when BBC made a small documentary, they first thought of having a voiceover for me. The producer liked my English so much, he said they were retaining my original voice.

Indian Businessman

Seth Shostak

Judging by informal observation, most young Americans burn up their spare time buffing their emotional IQ and self-esteem with social media and non-stop texting. That's great for eye-thumb coordination, but what about the satisfaction of actually making something?

American Scientist

Richard Attias

Africa's informal economy is one of the most innovative and inventive environments in the world. Yet it is an environment with little regulation in which workers are often exposed to hard conditions and live without a safety net.

Moroccan Businessman

James William Middleton

If the bride and groom are relaxed and happy, everything flows from there. Big or small, formal or informal - there is no right way. The most important thing is that the couple feels loved and enjoys their big day.

English Businessman

Julian Treasure

Conscious listening is very largely overlooked in the mainstream of education. It's such an important skill in life. And yet we expect children to pick it up from home or from peers informally.

American

Heather Mac Donald

Ideally, informal social controls, above all the family, preserve public order. But when the family disintegrates, the police are the second-best solution for protecting the law-abiding.

American Editor

Letitia James

In today's world, access to the Internet is inarguably critical to function in informal and formal spaces - and the costs to digital segregation are rising.

American Public Servant

Laurence Fishburne

Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life.

American Actor

Used to show a situation is friendly and not serious.

Relaxed Interaction

Indicates that you can wear comfortable, non-formal clothes.

No Dress Code

Refers to events that are not planned far in advance.

Impromptu Events

Describes discussions that happen in private, not in the public eye.

Behind Closed Doors

Means there are no written records or formal documentation of the proceedings.

No Official Record

An informal arrangement doesn't legally bind the parties involved.

No Binding Force

Suggests rules can be bent or are not strictly enforced.

Relaxed Rules

Shows a preference for an individual's unique way of doing things.

Personal Touch

Allows for more creativity as it does not strictly adhere to conventions.

Creative Freedom

 Once you know your characters, you can figure out how they talk. At this stage, it's helpful to use anti-social skill number muttering to yourself. When you speak your character's words, you can hear whether they sound natural, and fix them if necessary. Remember, most people are usually pretty informal when they speak.

Three anti-social skills...

 the neighbor became very impatient, and he demanded that he be paid back. Unfortunately, Naghma's father didn't have the money, and so the two men agreed to a jirga. So simply put, a jirga is a form of mediation that's used in Afghanistan's informal justice system. It's usually presided over by religious leaders

Kimberley Motley: How I...

 aren't giving people in general information about the importance of business, strategic and financial acumen, how are men getting to the top? Well, there are primarily two ways. One is because of the positions they're guided into, and the other is because of informal mentoring

The career advice you...

 to shoot a documentary about life in the favelas. Now, we learned that favelas are informal communities. They emerged over the years when immigrants from the countryside came to the cities looking for work, like cities within the cities, known for problems like crime, poverty,

Haas&Hahn: How painting...

 from the inner workings. It claims to provide answers to life's biggest questions 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

Why do people join...

 had to become thousands so I moved to activism first informally by joining forces with other passionate people in the field later I co-founded them later I found that the campaign's program of the leading human rights organization in my home country

Fighting injustice with...

 it's a process. Moving from informal to formal for poor people is a journey. It takes time to accept and adapt. And when that choice is not given, it becomes like this, which I'm afraid, in future, these would become the slums.

What if the poor were...

 for new communities, formal or informal, and for the cutting down of firewood. I was deeply troubled and dissatisfied. It wasn't just the destruction of the trees and the hillsides that bothered me.

How to turn your...

 chapter and I think you'll find the sensibility of my mother best expressed just looking has two meanings one is in to them looking informal looking nothing important happening here just looking

The Life of a Photograph...

 Of course, this discourages business creation and promotes informal economy. In fact, econometric research has proved that if the process of declaring bankruptcy takes less time and less money,

Informal