Curves Quotes - Page 11

• Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.

  Patsy Kensit

  Mistake, Lessons, Life Is

  "'I've had enough passion to last me a lifetime': Patsy Kensit on why she'll never marry again". Interview with Olivia Buxton, www.mirror.co.uk. April 21, 2012.

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• The dumber a pitcher is, the better. When he gets smart and begins to experiment with a lot of different pitches, he's in trouble. All I ever had was a fastball, a curve and a changeup and I did pretty good.

  Dizzy Dean

  Smart, Different, Pitching

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• Through all the centuries of the worship of the mindless, whatever stagnation humanity chose to endure, whatever brutality to practice-it was only by the grace of the men who perceived that wheat must have water in order to grow, that stones laid in a curve will form an arch, that two and two make four, that love is not served by torture and life is not fed by destruction-only by the grace of those men did the rest of them learn to experience moments when they caught the spark of being human.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Love Is, Two

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• What do you want from me? Fine writing? Or do you want to see the sales curve stop moving down and start moving up?

  Rosser Reeves

  Moving, Writing, Want

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• Define excellence vividly, quantitatively. Paint a picture for your most talented employees of what excellence looks like. Keep everyone pushing and pushing toward the right-hand edge of the bell curve.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Hands, Excellence, Looks

  Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman (1999). “First, Break All The Rules: What The Worlds Greatest Managers Do Differently”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• In rallying every curve, every hill may be different than you thought. That makes it interesting.

  Kimi Raikkonen

  Interesting, Different, May

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• Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Moving, Matter, Spacetime

  John Archibald Wheeler (2010). “Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics”, p.235, W. W. Norton & Company

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• But the indeterminate future is somehow one in which probability and statistics are the dominant modality for making sense of the world. Bell curves and random walks define what the future is going to look like. The standard pedagogical argument is that high schools should get rid of calculus and replace it with statistics, which is really important and actually useful. There has been a powerful shift toward the idea that statistical ways of thinking are going to drive the future.

  Peter Thiel

  Powerful, School, Thinking

  "Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 13 Notes Essay". blakemasters.com. May 20, 2012.

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• One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day that will be an airborne life.

  Beryl Markham

  Stars, Future, Men

  Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

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• I'm cooler than a polar bear's toenails... bend corners like I was a curve, I struck a nerve.

  Big Boi

  Nerves, Toenails, Bears

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• I have worked to free shape from its ground, and then to work the shape so that it has a definite relationship to the space around it; so that it has a clarity and a measure within itself of its parts (angles, curves, edges and mass); and so that, with color and tonality, the shape finds its own space and always demands its freedom and separateness.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Color, Space, Demand

  Madeleine Grynsztejn, Ellsworth Kelly, Julian Myers, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002). “Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco”, p.9, Univ of California Press

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• When implemented, the Complete Lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated... The Complete Lives system justifies preference to younger people because of priority to the worst-off rather than instrumental value.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Years, People, Priorities

  "America Senses Something's Not Right" by Glenn Beck, www.foxnews.com. August 6, 2009.

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• Vagisil. Any one of them will give you another two to three inches drop on your curve ball. Of course if the umps are watching me real close I'll rub a little jalapeno up my nose, get it runnin', and if I need to load the ball up I just... (wipes his nose)

  Eddie Harris

  Real, Two, League

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• People use me as a figurehead, and to me that misses the point and is blatantly offensive to thin women - my sister, for one. Curves don't epitomise a woman. Saying, 'Skinny is ugly' should be no more acceptable than saying fat is. I find all this stuff a very controlling and effective way of making women obsess over their weight, instead of exploiting their more important attributes, such as intellect, strength and power. We could be getting angry about unequal pay and unequal opportunities, but we're too busy being told we're not thin enough or curvy enough. We're holding ourselves back.

  Robyn Lawley

  Opportunity, People, Missing

  FaceBook post by Robyn Lawley from Nov 29, 2013

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• There will always be some curve balls in your life. Teach your children to thrive in that adversity.

  Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe

  Children, Adversity, African American

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• I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend. The one who will memorize the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say them. I want to know every curve, every freckle, every shiver of your body. I want to know where to touch you, I want to know how to touch you. I want to know convince you to design a smile just for me. Yes, I do want to be your friend. I want to be your best friend in the entire world.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Love, Fall, Design

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• The steep ride up the and down the energy curve is the most abnormal thing that has ever happened in human history. Most of human history is a no-growth situation. Our culture is built on growth and that phase of human history is almost over and we are not prepared for it. Our biggest problem is not the end of our resources. That will be gradual. Our biggest problem is a cultural problem. We don't know how to cope with it.

  M. King Hubbert

  Growth, Energy, Almost Over

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• The Bell curve is a fact of life. The blacks on average score 85 per cent on IQ and it is accurate, nothing to do with culture. The whites score on average 100. Asians score more. The Bell curve authors put it at least 10 points higher. These are realities that, if you do not accept, will lead to frustration because you will be spending money on wrong assumptions and the results cannot follow.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Reality, Frustration, Average

  "Lee Kuan Yew: The Man and His Ideas". Book by Fook Kwang Han, Sumiko Tan, and Warren Fernandez, 1998.

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• I've got a fastball, change-up, forkball, curve, slider, knuckle-slider, knuckle-curve, I had about seven pitches I could have used at any time.

  Chili Davis

  Knuckles, Seven, Used

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• As Einstein himself pointed out. He said we’re like people in a boat without oars drifting along a winding river. Around us we see only the present. We can’t see the past, back in the bends and curves behind us. But it’s there.

  Jack Finney

  Past, Rivers, People

  Jack Finney (2014). “Time and Again”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Prize the natural spaces and shorelines most of all, because once they're gone, with rare exceptions they're gone forever. In our bones we need the natural curves of hills, the scent of chapparal, the whisper of pines, the possibility of wildness. We require these patches of nature for our mental health and our spiritual resilience.

  Richard Louv

  Spiritual, Space, Forever

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.202, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea. First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture....The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.

  Gustav Stickley

  Wall, Ideas, Long

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• It was an American who said that while a Frenchman's truth was akin to a straight line, a Welshman's truth was more in the nature of a curve, and it is a fact that Welsh affairs are entangled always in parabola, double-meaning and implication. This makes for a web-like interest.

  Jan Morris

  Lines, Facts, Affair

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• [On the Gaussian curve, remarked to Poincaré:] Experimentalists think that it is a mathematical theorem while the mathematicians believe it to be an experimental fact.

  Gabriel Lippmann

  Believe, Thinking, Facts

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• Let a man go down as low as possible; there must come a time when out of sheer desperation he will take an upward curve and will learn to have faith in himself.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Men, Desperation

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.10, editionNEXT.com

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