James Gleick Quotes

Chaotic theory is mathematically based on non-linear propositions, 'meaning that they expressed relationships that were not strictly proportional. Linear relationships can be captured with a straight line on a graph'

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• I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Home
  • Want
  • Europe

• When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Time
  • Place
  • Paths

• I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Up
  • Think
  • Want

• I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'

  

  Zach LaVine
  • She
  • Remember
  • Myself

• I got my first leopard print coat when I was 15. I nearly got beat up, but I was happy with it.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Happy
  • First

• My biggest concern with the whole deal with 'Total Divas' and with WWE - and, you know, they want you to be engaged with social media and all this kind of stuff - I don't want to live my life to entertain other people.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• California is an easy place to be an Asian woman engineer.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
  • Woman
  • Easy
  • California

• You know what's funny? There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see that ball. You're like, 'That couldn't have been all me.'

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Funny
  • Know
  • Me

• No officer should be allowed to behave as if they are above the law just because they are responsible for upholding the law. Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme acts of abuse are more likely, just like what happened to Laquan McDonald.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Culture
  • Law
  • Abuse

• I think the Baby Boom does have a tendency to get its nose in everything. The Greatest Generation had a better tendency to leave people alone. Of course, they also had a better tendency to hate everybody's guts.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Hate
  • Alone

• Steve McQueen is my style hero. He's just cool, isn't he?

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Style
  • Cool
  • Hero

• Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Career
  • Ambition
  • Medicine

• You can do your job and be yourself and be comfortable all at the same time!

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Time
  • Job
  • Be Yourself

• Don Conroy was larger than life and there was never a room he entered that he left without making his mark. At some point in his life, he passed from being merely memorably to being legendary.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life

• We have had eight years of consistent and persistent attacks on those four years in government - and on me, personally, but that does not matter - by people who were collectively responsible for those four years.

  

  Edward Heath
  • People

• She was his life,The ocean to the river of his thoughts, Which terminated all.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Life
  • She
  • Thoughts

• Social scientists have found that when confronted with either an enormous threat or a huge reward, people tend to focus on the magnitude of the consequence and ignore the probability.

  

  Al Gore
  • People
  • Focus
  • Ignore

• I don't care what word you use: my job is to design clothing that is not out there for us.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • Job
  • Design

• At the Christmas party, the secretary with the long red hair ate three pickles, and four salesmen panicked.

  

  Milton Berle
  • Secretary
  • Salesmen
  • Christmas Party

• When I watch myself, I see nothing but faults, like, 'This I need to do different, this I need to do different,' and so if there comes a point in time where I'm like, 'Man, this whole thing is just getting really stale,' I am not opposed to being the bad guy again.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Time
  • Different
  • Bad

• You're just these kids from a small town. You get a record deal, and everything just goes so fast. In the span of five albums... in a way, the band that you started in your bedroom, or your basement or your garage, kind of becomes not your band anymore. It becomes something bigger than you could have known. No one really prepares you.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • Band
  • Record
  • Basement

• Genetics loads the gun, lifestyle pulls the trigger.

  

  Caldwell Esselstyn
  • Gun
  • Lifestyle
  • Load

• Chaotic theory is mathematically based on non-linear propositions, 'meaning that they expressed relationships that were not strictly proportional. Linear relationships can be captured with a straight line on a graph'

  

  James Gleick