E. T. Bell Quotes

The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.

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• In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Past
  • Present
  • Write

• When you have a core group of young players as we do, the future looks bright.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Future
  • Young
  • Group

• I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Think
  • Future
  • Enthusiasm

• Predictions are preposterous.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Future
  • Predictions

• We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Home
  • Future
  • Space

• I'm based here in L.A., but I think in the future I might consider settling down in Malaysia when I start a family.

  

  Yuna
  • Family
  • Future
  • Start

• We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Future
  • Know
  • Best

• The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Future
  • Risk
  • Holocaust

• I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past - your favourite architect, your favourite song - you take it all with you.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Future
  • Song
  • Past

• I don't like the road. I love being on the track. I like being indoors and the fact I'm not battling past 200 other riders.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Love
  • Past
  • Road

• The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Past
  • Strong
  • Self

• I've never been someone that was sort of blessed with an innate talent of just being able to do things. I had to work at it and learn from mistakes.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Work
  • Blessed
  • Mistakes

• The future is no more uncertain than the present.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Future
  • Present
  • More

• What we can afford least is to define the problem of future war as we would like it to be and, by doing so, introduce into our defense vulnerabilities based on self-delusion.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
  • Future
  • Problem

• The past is but the past of a beginning.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Past
  • Beginning

• Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• When you come across someone colorful and vibrant maybe in the present it isn't so interesting, but, in the past, it sheds a wonderful light onto living life.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Life
  • Past
  • Interesting

• I really like playing good guys, of course. Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys, but I don't have that problem, anyway.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • People
  • Good
  • Problem

• I think in the wake of 9/11, like a lot of Americans, you know, we were all very traumatized by the attacks, traumatized in a totally different way by some of what happened afterward in response. And I think there have been these questions hovering in the past decade of, what kind of country are we? Who are we?

  

  Amy Waldman
  • Different
  • Country
  • Past

• In the past, people used to tell me to shut up a bit. But what I believe is to put out your opinion and let everyone else react. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong.

  

  Mark Cuban
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• I just got an honorary degree from Glasgow University, and I had to wear around very painful shoes so that I didn't laugh all the way through the ceremony because I felt like an outlaw.

  

  Denise Mina
  • Shoes

• President Trump will release America's pent-up energy potential, get rid of foreign oil, trash punitive regulations, create millions of jobs, and develop our most strategic geopolitical weapon: crude oil.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Up
  • America
  • Energy

• Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Different
  • Why
  • Better

• The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Future
  • Past
  • Mistakes