Izaak Walton Quotes
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I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
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I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.
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Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.
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Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.
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As a press secretary and on 'The Five,' I've learned that I have a choice in how I answer a question. There's combative or productive - I get to take my pick.
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One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
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One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.
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On the landscape crew, I learned a lot from the other workers. We treated everybody equally, and we worked hard.
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I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of algebra instead of a fifth year of Latin. She looked down her nose at me and sneered, 'What lady would take mathematics instead of Latin?'
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I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.
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I learned mainly through television, but I learned how to do mosaic, where you can buy stones or things of that nature. But also where you bust the tile to decorate pots for flowers or table tops. Lots of different things. Wherever you want it, you can mosaic just about anything. It took me about two weeks to do a big birdbath.
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I learned life from some good teachers.
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The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.
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I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.
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The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
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...I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life!
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For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.
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Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned? Isn't it also great when friends visit from distant places? If one remains not annoyed when he is not understood by people around him, isn't he a sage?
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Someone very important once told me, 'You can make almost everything look great.' That's the best compliment I have received till date.
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The artist must reckon with his own character flaws, which do not disappear just because he has been called to be an artist.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.
