Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes
When people ask me what's my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
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I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.
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Music therapy was so important in the early stages of my recovery because it can help retrain different parts of your brain to form language centers in areas where they weren't before you were injured.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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Looking back, I don't feel that I was the most brilliant mother. I was always very good at giving my children the right food, but it was one of my regrets in life that I didn't spend more time listening to them or playing with them.
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People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.
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Providing great schooling is the single most important thing we can do to help any child from a disadvantaged background succeed. It's also the single most important thing we can do to boost the long-term productivity of our economy.
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When people ask me what's my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.
