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math numbers praying
Pray tell us, what's your favorite number? Abraham Verghese
math appreciate tears
And by the same token, I appreciate math, because I can't do math. If I have to read a map or figure out the tip on a restaurant bill, I might start to tear up a little bit. Thomas F. Wilson
math ideas i-can
Why do I act as I do? To tell you the truth, I have absolutely no idea why. It is simply my nature to act as I act, and that's all I can say. Raymond Smullyan
math science numbers
When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it. Lord Kelvin
math science numbers
I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.
math numbers violence
The introduction of numbers as coordinates is an act of violence. Hermann Weyl
math creative mind
Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.
math thinking essence
Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature.
math simple years
It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what that adds up to in a year, and it's a distressing figure. Graydon Carter
thinking proud bryan
Superman is there to unite us all, I think. I'm proud of Bryan for respecting that and not making it just about us. Brandon Routh
thinking bridges age
I was trying to get into the business from a young age, but I don't think I really realized how much I loved it until I booked my first movie and found myself in New Zealand for six months filming Bridge to Terabithia. Bailee Madison
thinking challenges would-be
I think a challenge for myself is to see how many times I can get above 9,000. That would be a good challenge. Ashton Eaton
thinking issues want
A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue. Azar Nafisi
thinking islam needs
I think Islam is in a sense, in crisis. It needs to question and re-question itself.
thinking looks alive
Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want—isn't that life itself? And who—in this damned universe—who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want? Ayn Rand
thinking religion trying
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed. Bertrand Russell
thinking too-much next
Every stage of my life set the scene for the next, and at each point all I had to do was say "yes" and not think too much about the consequences. Jane Goodall
thinking political needs
I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.' James Van Allen
skills people given
Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people. Sugar Ray Leonard
skills people needs
What you need to know to direct a movie is [of] such great variety. I've worked with people who were maestros, who know everything. I've worked with people who were empty and lost, who had no clue what they were doing. You wouldn't hire them to paint your apartment. And then there's everything in-between. There's no list of skills you have to have to sit in that chair. Tony Gilroy
skills people leader
There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills. Shiv Khera
skills waiting lines
She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is a thing curled deep inside, just waiting to be exercised, and at the slightest invitation it will stretch, shake itself, make itself known? Talent, it seems, is not so insistent. Gregory Maguire
skills littles sticks
Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have. Sarah Wayne Callies
skills like-being-alone people
Socializing is more positive than being alone, that’s why meetings are so popular. People don’t like being alone. That would be, however, an important skill to learn... Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
skills effort demand
Most enjoyable activities are not natural; they demand an effort that initially one is reluctant to make. But once the interaction starts to provide feedback to the person's skills, it usually begins to be intrinsically rewarding.
skills capacity
One must develop skills that stretch capacities, that make one more than what one is.
skills apples knives
Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer. Terry Pratchett