William Thurston Quotes

We humans have a wide range of abilities that help us perceive and analyze mathematical content. We perceive abstract notions not just through seeing but also by hearing, by feeling, by our sense of body motion and position. Our geometric and spatial skills are highly trainable, just as in other high-performance activities. In mathematics we can use the modules of our minds in flexible ways - even metaphorically. A whole-mind approach to mathematical thinking is vastly more effective than the common approach that manipulates only symbols.

William Thurston

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• There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Important
  • Fans
  • Give

• All I can do is put out the good stuff, and people will make the decision on whether they like it. My fans are very intelligent people. They're not stupid. They know what's good.

  

  Action Bronson
  • People
  • Good
  • Decision

• You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • You
  • Winning
  • Pride

• My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Band
  • Approach

• Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Arts

• When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • First
  • New
  • New York

• Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Work
  • Art

• I just feel it's a shame to let fear get in your way and stop you achieving things.

  

  Alex Sharp
  • Fear
  • Stop

• I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I was growing up in school, and the federal government didn't want us taught about the history of the war, because they thought it probably would make us generate a new generation of rebels.

  

  Chris Abani
  • Up
  • School
  • War

• I'm still pulled over... We were nominated for two Oscars for 'Monster's Ball,' and I almost didn't make the Oscars because I got pulled over in Beverly Hills.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • Monster

• I have heard Obama officials say more than once, 'You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.'

  

  Jill Abramson

• The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.

  

  James Dyson
  • Lazy

• I grew up understanding the pros and cons of what you're getting into and knowing what comes with your job. I like to keep my private life private, and then work is work. I feel so far I've had a really good balance with that.

  

  Lily Collins
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• Well, you know, the violence is mostly in Mexico itself, at least the violence that people are worried about. And so we want to make sure that violence does not spill over into our communities that are along the border.

  

  Janet Napolitano
  • People
  • Violence

• Stultum facit fortuna, quem vult perdere.

  

  Publilius Syrus

• I'm in a very close-knit, very, very tight family. My grandmother had 13 kids, so we had a lot of family like 50, 60 grandchildren and we all lived in Jersey, relatively in the same area. So every time there was something, my entire family was there. And I just believed everybody's family was like that.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Time
  • Family
  • Kids

• Maybe this is extremely selfish of me, but I do things that I want to make and I don't really care about anyone else when I'm thinking about an idea.

  

  Darren Lynn Bousman
  • Thinking
  • Ideas
  • Care

• It is important to understand what your team can do.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Important
  • Team

• If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Giving

• We humans have a wide range of abilities that help us perceive and analyze mathematical content. We perceive abstract notions not just through seeing but also by hearing, by feeling, by our sense of body motion and position. Our geometric and spatial skills are highly trainable, just as in other high-performance activities. In mathematics we can use the modules of our minds in flexible ways - even metaphorically. A whole-mind approach to mathematical thinking is vastly more effective than the common approach that manipulates only symbols.

  

  William Thurston
  • Thinking
  • Helping
  • Humans