Robert Wyatt Quotes

I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

Robert Wyatt

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• If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • High
  • Security
  • Numbers

• I gotta be honest with you... I hate numbers. I hate chapter numbers. I hate them.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Hate
  • Numbers
  • Chapter

• In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Up
  • Help
  • Energy

• Hungary needs Russia.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Needs
  • Russia
  • Hungary

• I worked also, doing things such as our paper route and, later on, waitressing.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Things
  • Doing
  • Paper

• I like getting 'Times' articles online. But the actual paper just has too many words.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Words
  • Like
  • Paper

• The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Numbers
  • Victim
  • Statistics

• True confidence leaves no room for jealousy. When you know your are great, you have no need to hate.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Great
  • True
  • Funny

• You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Art
  • Feels
  • Should

• Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.

  

  Charlie Daniels
  • Good
  • Business
  • Game

• Nothing short of the Almighty Power of God can Save us - it is not in our Numbers, our Union, or our Valour that I dare trust.

  

  Abraham Clark
  • God
  • Power
  • Trust

• Niall: Help! Louis: Did anyone hear that? Niall: Help!! Louis: SOMEBODY NEEDS HELP! RAAH! (Pulls open shirt and has Superman shirt underneath) Superman is here!!

  

  Louis Tomlinson One Direction
  • Help
  • Needs
  • Helping

• I need not torment myself with the fear that my faith may fail; as grace led me to faith in the first place, so grace will keep me believing to the end. Faith, both in its origin and continuance, is a gift of grace (Phil 1:29).

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Believe
  • May
  • Fear

• I wonder what Tommy Morris would have had to say to all this number 6-iron, number 12-iron, number 28-iron stuff. He probably wouldn't have said anything, just made one of those strange Scottish noises at the back of his throat like someone gargling.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Wonder
  • Golf
  • Numbers

• Love is a delicate plant that needs constant tending and nurturing, and this cannot be done by snorting at the adored object like a gas explosion and calling her friends lice.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Done
  • Friends
  • Needs

• So what? You're another person, so of course you look different. What do you need to be ashamed for?

  

  Yana Toboso
  • Different
  • Needs
  • Looks

• We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Giving
  • Suffering

• Your solution for a customer has to be either amazingly valuable to someone who will pay an enormous amount of money for it or has to be valuable to an enormous number of people who pay a small amount. And also the person you're talking to-especially if you want to raise capital or raise support-has to personally say, "I want that. I like that. That sounds really great. I want that for myself."

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Great
  • Money

• The mind, of course, is just what the brain does for a living.

  

  Sharon Begley
  • Mind
  • Brain
  • Living

• The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late

  

  H. Rider Haggard
  • Great
  • Fate

• I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Love
  • Reality
  • Romantic

• What a lot of things I don't need.

  

  Socrates
  • Things
  • Need
  • Lot

• I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • Needs
  • Numbers
  • Pieces