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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
mentally
That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him. Tony Russa
men iron envy
As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man. Antisthenes
men religion useless
Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity. Baruch Spinoza
men desire tongue
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.
men simplicity fame
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men. Augustus Hare
men great-men
Great men can't be ruled. Ayn Rand
men together taught
Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.
men goes-on prometheus
And man will go on. Man, not men.
men ideas speech
No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.
numbers people gone
Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me. Alex Ferguson
numbers track together
I mix my own lipsticks, so I don't really keep track of the brand as it's usually a number of them I've smushed together. Alexa Chung
numbers needs certain
I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of. Alice Walker
numbers perfection limits
Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits. Richard Bach
numbers members stupidest
To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members. Robert A. Heinlein
numbers people stuff
Some people figure that if they're part of a gang then they have less of a chance of being killed, because they are in larger numbers. But the problem with this is that it will lead to people doing stuff that they wouldn't usually do. Ross Kemp
numbers diversity goal
A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus. Vernon Jordan
numbers risk needs
To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have small dribs and drabs of time at his disposal will not be sufficient even if the total is an impressive number of hours. Peter Drucker
numbers spontaneity infinite
Spontaneity is an infinite number of rehearsed possibilities.