M. C. Escher Quotes
I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.
Quotes to Explore
-
A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!
-
I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
-
Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
-
I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.
-
It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
-
I will never sell Flipkart.
-
After the dotcom boom blew up, it increased the focus on questions like, 'Why should I trust you to help run my business? How do I know you're not going to go away like every other company?' That was hard. We had to keep proving ourselves.
-
I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
-
Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.
-
Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
-
My son will be an American, but I remain French.
-
And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here.
-
And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.
-
There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.
-
Wars have not solved anything in our region. They have only caused misery, suffering, bereavement, and hatred.
-
I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.
-
I loved all of the 'Zenon' movies. Those were my jam mostly because of the fashion. I loved something about the space buns and the weird neon colors. I couldn't just wear that in real life because people would look weirdly at me, but maybe at a party or something.
-
Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other.
-
When we see animals doing remarkable things, how do we know if we're simply seeing tricks or signs of real intelligence? Are talented animals just obeying commands, or do they have some kind of deeper understanding? One of the biggest challenges for animal researchers is to come up with tests that can distinguish between the two.
-
My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.
-
During the year, our schools are busy slashing P.E. and recess to make more time for math. During the summer, we get ourselves worked into a tizzy that our children will forget their fractions.
-
Imagine how many women could excel in science if not for the pernicious myth that science and math are a man's game. Likewise, fitness isn't defined by the Arnold Schwarzeneggers of the world.
-
It's very Western to idealize a kind of love that does not come with any expectations, that still permits both the giver and recipient to be completely free.
-
I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.
