George Polya Quotes

Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and paper.

George Polya

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• I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • You
  • Know
  • Deserve

• I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • School
  • Home
  • Book

• Luckily I don't have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them! I'm off tour, so I can dive in and create the shoes that I want for my line. But okay, I did buy a pair of vintage combat boots because they were so beaten up - I had to have them.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Design
  • Shoes
  • Create

• The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Mistake

• Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Courage

• I have to arrange my life very carefully. I need eight hours' sleep to work.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Work
  • Sleep

• Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Christian
  • Christ
  • Superior

• Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.

  

  Xander Berkeley
  • Art
  • Together
  • Years

• I've always enjoyed doing dishes. Maybe it was the fashionable yellow gloves that I loved so much. It's weird, I know, but I find cleaning cathartic.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Weird
  • Loved
  • Cleaning

• I did record a bunch of stuff, but the thing that usually stops me from doing that is that I'm a terrible singer. I made a bunch of instrumental music, and it feels really good, but just as a singer, I'm not good.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Good
  • Music
  • Me

• If you ask a founder how their company is doing, they always say, 'Oh it's great. We're totally crushing it,' and that's almost never true.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Great
  • True
  • Doing

• A lot of the main audience thinks video game-based movies are always horror movies but it's totally not true. In video games you have adventure, sci-fi, horror, action and even comedy. I think that people should accept more that video games are kind of like the best-selling books of the new generation.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • People
  • True
  • Game

• We're all equal before a wave.

  

  Laird Hamilton

• But having made my decision as Commander-in-Chief based on what I am convinced is our national security interests, I will seek authorization for the use of force from the American people's representatives in Congress.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Long
  • American

• We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • True
  • Are
  • Inconsistent

• I'm a simple man, and I use simple materials.

  

  L. S. Lowry
  • Men
  • Simple
  • Use

• Whatever is in that report ... there is no basis for beginning an impeachment proceeding.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • Beginning
  • Report
  • Impeachment

• Black people we've been taught that we will never be free, until some will have to die, some will have to give up wealth, their loved ones, and their health, So, what I'm doin' is for myself and for justice for black people, runnin' will kill it all, it'll make me a coward.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Free
  • Justice
  • Wealth

• You can accomplish virtually any goal you set for yourself, as long as the goal is clear and you persist long enough.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Long
  • Goal
  • Enough

• Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • God
  • Ready
  • Shutter

• I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?' And she looked at me and said, 'Because there aren't any.'

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • She
  • Remember
  • History

• If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across

  

  Mercedes Lackey
  • Walking
  • Wells

• Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and paper.

  

  George Polya
  • Mathematics
  • Paper
  • Pencil