George Polya Quotes
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The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric. I have resisted getting a computer because I distrust the whole PC thing. I don't think a great book has yet been written on computer.
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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.
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Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.
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Education was something my parents always put a lot of emphasis on. It was naturally in me, and my sister is equally driven. She is a paediatric endocrinologist.
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I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.
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If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity.
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The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
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I don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.
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I grew up in the church.
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Teamwork is a strategic decision.
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Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV.
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There are two great classes of men: the people and the scholars, the men of science. For the former, nothing exists but that which directly leads to action. It is for the latter to see beyond. They are the free artists who create the future and its history, the conscious architects of the world.
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Success is a process... During that journey sometimes there are stones thrown at you, and you convert them into milestones.
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I think people are universal.
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Destiny's Child will always be No.1 on my list.
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Jah come to break downpression, rule equality, wipe away transgression, set the captives free.
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Taliban-esque: Any behavior that imposes the beliefs of one person on everyone else. Conversations with the Taliban-esque are impossible. They aren't even conversations. With them, it's my way or no way.
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The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.
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The future is of greater interest to me than the past, since that is where I intend to spend the rest of my life.
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My body is for my tennis - it's for my sport. I'm not a model at all. I don't work out to go to the beach: I work out to play well and to do well on the court.
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Mathematics is not a spectator sport!
