George Polya Quotes

The result of the mathematician's creative work is demonstrative reasoning, a proof; but the proof is discovered by plausible reasoning, by guessing.

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• Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • River
  • Lake
  • Wilderness

• I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there. Also, I grew up listening and loving reggae music, too.

  

  Kat Dahlia
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • World
  • Good
  • Party

• I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city, and I think, 'I should make more of an effort. I should look like that.' But then I think, 'They can't be happy in those heels.'

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Great
  • Women
  • Happy

• With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • War
  • China
  • Global

• Form follows beauty.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Beauty
  • Form
  • Follows

• The world as a whole is full of problems and difficulties and it is most important that every country which loves its Freedom and wants to maintain its Independence and sovereignty should work for peace and try to see that there is disarmament in the world which alone will lead to real peace.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • World
  • Work
  • Important

• I really, really love being a mum and I absolutely love being a singer so I couldn't be happier.

  

  Jamelia

• Whenever God's will is in the ascendant all compulsion is gone. When we choose deliberately to obey Him then with all His almighty power.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Power
  • Choose

• I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.

  

  Leonard Baskin
  • Work
  • Artists
  • Nihilism

• Your ability to select your most important task at each moment, and then to get started on that task and to get it done both quickly and well, will probably have more of an impact on your success than any other quality or skill you can develop.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Important
  • Done
  • Success

• On the day he had colonic irrigation: 'I feel I lost my virginity that day in so many ways.'

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Lost
  • Ways
  • Virginity

• If there is anything that the ACLU hates more than censorship, it is any form of public religious expression.

  

  F. LaGard Smith
  • Religious

• The more I travel around the world, the more I see people want the same thing - to be happy. We wouldn't be in a monetary system if we didn't have to work, so if my music can contribute to happiness, then that's my main responsibility.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Moral
  • Lives

• She looked like a woman talking about astronomical parallax, and that made her brilliantly beautiful.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Beautiful
  • Woman
  • Talking

• That is the trouble with many inventors; they lack patience. They lack the willingness to work a thing out slowly and clearly and sharply in their mind, so that they can actually "feel it work." They want to try their first idea right off; and the result is they use up lots of money and lots of good material, only to find eventually that they are working in the wrong direction. We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Money
  • Trouble
  • Patience

• The result of the mathematician's creative work is demonstrative reasoning, a proof; but the proof is discovered by plausible reasoning, by guessing.

  

  George Polya
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  • Mathematician