Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes

My ambition was not to create a new field, but I would have welcomed a permanent group of people having interests close to mine and therefore breaking the disastrous tendency towards increasingly well-defined fields. Unfortunately, I failed on this essential point, very badly. Order doesn't come by itself.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Quotes to Explore

It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

Ingrid Newkirk
- People
- Important
- Why
I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.

P. L. Travers
- Inspiration
- Summon
I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

Mamie Van Doren
- Women
- Star
- Woman
I'm not Cinderella.

Valerie Trierweiler
- Cinderella
Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.

Ralph Marston
- Attention
- Yourself
- Turn
'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.

Patina Miller
- School
- Hair
- Couple