William Thurston Quotes

The product of mathematics is clarity and understanding. Not theorems, by themselves. ... In short, mathematics only exists in a living community of mathematicians that spreads understanding and breathes life into ideas both old and new.

William Thurston

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• You must be independent and able to do for yourself. Then you do not have to marry a rich man; you can marry a poor one. And if it is wrong, you can go.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Man
  • Independent
  • Yourself

• 2009 was crazy enough! I can't believe I worked with Jeremy Irons, Joan Allen, Marsha Mason, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, Jack O'Brien and Trevor Nunn in the same 12 months.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Believe
  • Crazy
  • Same

• Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of the land and oceans. Our hunger for land crowds out fellow species. Our waste products pollute the waters, warm the atmosphere and acidify the oceans.

  

  Ian Goldin
  • Impact
  • Hunger
  • Productivity

• My opinion, having done this now for two cycles, is I think the national media really likes me and likes what I have to say. But, at the end of the day, 'He's a Libertarian,' and that denotes some loose screws, maybe.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Done
  • Day
  • Opinion

• I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Want
  • Person
  • Relationships

• All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Wind
  • Hollywood
  • Disaster

• Do not let yourself get in your own way. Don't judge yourself and knock yourself down. There is enough of that out there already. Remember: you are an artist, and you bring something special to this craft. Take in notes and criticism, but don't let them define you. Don't try to become a watered down version of yourself.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Remember
  • Yourself
  • Judge

• When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Fear

• During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.

  

  Ferdinand Piech
  • People
  • Career
  • Succeeded

• I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Kids
  • Game
  • Way

• Look at the newborn baby. It struggles to breathe after living in the womb. And yet, growth comes as a result of struggle. Even when we talk about jihad. We need to attach consciousness to struggle. This struggle has to be both individual and collective.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Growth
  • Struggle
  • Baby

• To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Life
  • World
  • God

• The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Best

• A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent. Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • God
  • Remember
  • Peace

• I think there are ways that graduate students can fact-check their work. I think there are ways that we can do this that don't require massive amounts of resources.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Work

• I'm not a plastic surgeon, and I cannot change the DNA of a person, but when I see a woman try on my clothes and she feels beautiful, I know I am doing my job.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • She
  • Job
  • Beautiful

• There is only so much you can do if you're pulling weight and there's nobody there to play off of. You can't have those beautiful moments with new actors who are so worried about everything else but the moment.

  

  Dawn Olivieri
  • Beautiful
  • Moments

• I don't make films, and because I don't make films, I'm not an expert in the craft of bringing a film into the world, how you put its various pieces together. But where I feel like I'm an expert is my own feelings in response to a film.

  

  Leslie Jamison
  • World
  • Together

• There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Community
  • Pain

• Delay would give Saddam the clearest possible signal that his strategy is succeeding, ... It would tell him that the international community lacks the will to disarm him.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Community
  • Strategy
  • Saddam

• I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

  

  Stephen Cole Kleene
  • Book
  • Logic
  • Mathematics

• The product of mathematics is clarity and understanding. Not theorems, by themselves. ... In short, mathematics only exists in a living community of mathematicians that spreads understanding and breathes life into ideas both old and new.

  

  William Thurston
  • Community
  • Understanding
  • Mathematics