Numbers Quotes - Page 31

• In the game of life, when the final buzzer sounds, the only stat you carry with you is the number of assists you made.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Graduation, Games, Sound

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• It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably in a world full of an increasing number of disagreeable surprises.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Happiness, Weed, World

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.232, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.

  Karl Popper

  History, Kind, Aspect

  Karl Popper (2005). “The Open Society and Its Enemies: Hegel and Marx”, p.299, Routledge

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• Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.

  Kevin Spacey

  Humor, Dumb, Deep Thought

  "Edinburgh TV Fest: Kevin Spacey Tells Industry 'It's the Creatives, Stupid'" by Georg Szalai, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 22, 2013.

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• Definition of lecture: An art of transmitting Information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of students without passing through the minds of either.
  Definition of conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present
  Definition of office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.
  "What people say about me behind my back is none of my business."

  RuPaul

  Art, Home, Humor

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• How can the unknown merit reverence? In other words how can you revere that of which you are ignorant? At the same time, it would be ridiculous to propose that what we know merits reverence. What we know merits any one of a number of things, but it stands to reason reverence isn't one of them. In other words, apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

  Harold Pinter

  Knowledge, Ignorant, Would Be

  Harold Pinter (1967). “The Homecoming”, p.52, Grove Press

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• Our aim in education is to give a full life. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests. Life should be all living, and not merely a tedious passing of time; not all doing or all feeling or all thinking - the strain would be too great - but, all living; that is to say, we should be in touch wherever we go, whatever we hear, whatever we see, with some manner of vital interest.

  Charlotte Mason

  Learning, Thinking, Giving

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “School Education”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not the number of books you read; nor the variety of sermons which you hear; nor the amount of religious conversation in which you mix: but it is the frequency and the earnestness with which you meditate on these things, till the truth which may be in them becomes your own, and part of your own being, that ensures your spiritual growth.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Truth, Book, Learning

  "Sermons".

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• The sands are number'd that make up my life;
  Here must I stay, and here my life must end.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Sand, Ends

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.501

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• Sing it not in mournful numbers.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life

  "Wilhelm Meister, Philine" in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

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• Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
  Life is but an empty dream!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Dream, Empty

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 1 - 2 (1838)

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• And he loved her, both for her fault and her redemption of it, more than he had ever thought that he could love her; for he had believed that in their kiss love had reached its uttermost. But love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Love, Life, Crush

  "Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard".

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• He loved her, both for her fault and her redemption of it, more than he had ever thought that he could love her; for he had believed that in their kiss love had reached its uttermost. But love has no uttermost, as the starshave no number and the sea no rest.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Life, Kissing, Sea

  Eleanor Farjeon (1922). “Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard”

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• Love the battle between chaos and imagination.
  Remember: Acting is living truthfully in imaginary circumstances.
  Remember: Acting is the way to live the greatest number of lives.
  Remember: Acting is the same as real life, lived intentionally.
  Never forget: The Fruit is out on the end of the limb. Go there.

  Robert Fulghum

  Life, Real, Imagination

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• I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last 10 years.

  Chuck Mangione

  Music, Hands, Years

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• Philosophy is antipoetic. Philosophize about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Unless, for a start, he has a strong personal rhythm to vary his metrics, he is nothing. Poets mistrust philosophy. They know that once the heads are counted, each owner of a head loses his personal identify and becomes a number in some government scheme: if not as a slave or serf, at least as a party to the device of majority voting, which smothers personal views.

  Robert Graves

  Strong, Philosophy, Party

  Robert Graves, Patrick J. Quinn (2000). “Some speculations on literature, history, and religion”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

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• Rule number one: Never make anyone uncomfortable in your home-even morons.

  Mary Matalin

  Home, Politics, Uncomfortable

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• But obviously a state which becomes progressively more and more of a unity will cease to be a state at all. Plurality of numbers is natural in a state; and the farther it moves away from plurality towards unity, the less of a state it becomes and the more a household, and the household in turn an individual.

  Aristotle

  Moving, Unity, Politics

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• A commonsense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question.

  Fred Hoyle

  Science, If There Is A God, Design

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• No, it is a very interesting number, it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways.

  Srinivasa Ramanujan

  Science, Two, Interesting

  Quoted in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, 26 May 1921

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• The male has more teeth than the female in mankind, and sheep and goats, and swine. This has not been observed in other animals. Those persons which have the greatest number of teeth are the longest lived; those which have them widely separated, smaller, and more scattered, are generally more short lived.

  Aristotle

  Science, Animal, Sheep

  Aristotle, Johann Gottlob Schneider (1862). “Aristotle's History of Animals: In Ten Books”, p.31

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• There is a restless kind of consumer shopping for partners, as if the "right one" can be found by totting up a potential mate's pluses and minuses until the number of pluses matches some mythical standards.

  Deepak Chopra

  Single, Shopping, Kind

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• I knew I could not live my life around a husband, now would I want a husband to live his life around me. Of course, there are any number of variations in marital relationships between those extremes. But there is always a need for spouses to change their behaviors or habits to suit each other. I have always been set in my ways and did not fancy changing my behavior or lifestyle.

  Geraldine Lee Wei Ling

  Single, Husband, Suits

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• It's easier to be ignorant and say I don't know about the problem. But once you know, once you've seen it in their eyes, then you have a responsibility to do something. There is strength in numbers, and if we all work together as a team, we can be unstoppable.

  Craig Kielburger

  Strength, Teamwork, Eye

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• The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Success, Real, Experience

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