Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes

What motivates me now are ideas I developed 10, 20 or 30 years ago, and the feeling that these ideas may be lost if I don't push them a little bit further.

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• I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Give
  • Believer
  • Comeback

• There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Money
  • Matter

• As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Child
  • Story
  • Logic

• There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Today
  • Way
  • Understand

• My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Great
  • Family
  • Love

• The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Real
  • Power
  • Worry

• Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Love
  • Care
  • Love Is

• I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Know

• I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Life
  • War
  • Army

• The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Up
  • Great
  • She

• If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Hand
  • Military
  • Fight

• I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Time
  • Learn
  • Year

• There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • You
  • Find
  • Just

• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Challenge
  • Economy

• I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Me
  • Lucky
  • Diagnosed

• Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Notes
  • Pure
  • Anywhere

• The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Experience
  • Proud
  • Discipline

• They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Heaven
  • Come
  • Angels

• Bioethics is a very, very important field. As we get more and more in the arena of understanding science and getting better opportunities, the fact that you can do things with biological sciences that have an impact on a human being means you must have ethical standards.

  

  Anthony Fauci
  • Important
  • Science
  • Understanding

• I think you should make a movie that has an audience.

  

  Matthew Vaughn
  • Movie

• When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying?

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • Great
  • Attention
  • Artist

• Old houses mended,Cost little less than new before they're ended.

  

  Colley Cibber

• As I get older the stars have gone from my eyes more, and I see that life is just something that has to be lived with, that it's better not to struggle.

  

  Marian Keyes
  • Life
  • Eyes
  • Struggle

• What motivates me now are ideas I developed 10, 20 or 30 years ago, and the feeling that these ideas may be lost if I don't push them a little bit further.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • May
  • Feeling
  • Lost