Edmund Landau Quotes

It gives me the same pleasure when someone else proves a good theorem as when I do it myself.

Edmund Landau

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• What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • Love
  • Reading

• There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

  

  Ovid
  • Pleasure
  • Anxiety
  • Pure

• I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Time
  • Work
  • Pleasure

• Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Community
  • Always
  • Pleasure

• The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • God
  • Pleasure
  • Modesty

• I think I'd be a good dad; it would be a pleasure.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Good
  • Think
  • Dad

• 'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • World
  • Pleasure

• Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being able to do the science.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Real
  • Remember
  • Fun

• Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Like
  • Happiness
  • Pleasure

• The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Body
  • Pleasure
  • Regret

• Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Alone
  • Artist

• Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Value
  • Human

• Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Time
  • Pleasure
  • Realizing

• Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Knowledge
  • Desire
  • Pleasure

• Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Work
  • Pleasure
  • Wealth

• Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure.

  

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Pleasure

• It is a great pleasure to live with positive hope that the most deprived will gain access into the Kingdom of God.

  

  Mathieu Kerekou
  • Hope
  • Pleasure
  • Access

• The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

  

  Aristotle
  • Pain
  • Wise
  • Pleasure

• The artist isn't particularly keen on getting a thing done, as you call it. He gets his pleasure out of doing it, playing with it, fooling with it, if you like. The mere completion of it is an incident.

  

  William McFee
  • Done
  • Art
  • Artist

• People search for love as if it were a city lost beneath the desert dunes, where pleasure is the law, the streets are lined with brocade cushions, and the sun never sets.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • People
  • Law
  • Lost

• With age comes common sense and wisdom.

  

  Nas
  • Age
  • Wisdom
  • Common Sense

• Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Family
  • Death

• But even labeling a site as astronomical is an improvement, since it partially sidesteps the old stereotype of Indians being primitive and ignorant savages.

  

  Vine Deloria, Jr.
  • Improvement
  • Ignorant
  • Stereotype

• It gives me the same pleasure when someone else proves a good theorem as when I do it myself.

  

  Edmund Landau
  • Pleasure
  • Proves
  • Theorem