W. Brian Arthur Quotes

When you mathematize something you distill its essence.

W. Brian Arthur

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• Nature is under control but not disturbed.

  

  Beatrix of the Netherlands
  • Nature
  • Control
  • Disturbed

• I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.

  

  Barbara G. Walker
  • Life
  • Women
  • Trying

• At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Win
  • Turn

• Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Together
  • Society
  • Culture

• You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Heart
  • She
  • Truth

• My Kindle readers have been incredibly faithful fans.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Fans
  • Faithful
  • Kindle

• No hero is mortal till he dies.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Hero
  • Dies
  • Till

• If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • People
  • Country
  • Know

• At Uniqlo, we're thinking ahead. We're thinking about how to create new, innovative products... and sell that to everyone.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Thinking
  • New
  • Ahead

• Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Important
  • Mother
  • Career

• In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!

  

  Zac Efron
  • Game
  • Team
  • Lost

• Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Country
  • Best
  • Like

• I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Find

• I am very proud to say that America is my home! I have so much respect for this country and the people in it. I'm so grateful that you guys have taken me in with care and respect.

  

  Camila Alves
  • People
  • Country
  • Home

• I used to be called Waddy Jones. But I changed my name to Ninja because it's more me.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Name
  • Changed
  • Ninja

• I feel that I can't do certain things that have sent to me, scripts, because I think that really - I've been June Cleaver for so many years, because we went back, you know, and we did - 20-year hiatus we had - and we went back and made 105 new ones. And so I really feel very strongly that there are certain things I won't do.

  

  Barbara Billingsley
  • Know
  • Me
  • New

• Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I am extremely proud of.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Victory
  • Defeat
  • Compliment

• If organized religion has become less relevant, it's not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs - it's because they've held fast to their conventional structures, programs, roles and routines.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Religion
  • Beliefs
  • Fast

• Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Soul
  • Lives
  • Human Heart

• I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.

  

  Alexis Korner
  • Music
  • Society

• As if to build a fence around the fatal emptiness inside her, she had to create a sunny person that she became. But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abbys of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it. Though she tried to forget it, the nothingness would visit her periodically - on a lonely rainy afternoon, or at dawn when she woke up from a nightmare. What she needed at such times was to be held by someone, anyone.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Forget
  • Create
  • Built

• I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on.

  

  Emily Blunt

• When you mathematize something you distill its essence.

  

  W. Brian Arthur