Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes

The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool, while tricky, is extraordinarily powerful and convenient.

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• I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

  

  Lady Gaga
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  • Family

• Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Him
  • Near
  • Unto

• Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • People
  • Rest
  • Knew

• Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.

  

  Zig Ziglar
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• You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.

  

  J. J. Abrams
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  • Going

• I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Love
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  • Night

• We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Him
  • Worth
  • Worth It

• I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Why
  • Think
  • Road

• I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Time
  • God
  • Heart

• When your dreams include service to others - accomplishing something that contributes to others - it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Service
  • Dreams

• My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.

  

  Carla Hall
  • Love
  • Job
  • Fear

• We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Control
  • Responsibility
  • Philosophy

• When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • People
  • Men
  • Society

• People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Truth
  • Dumb

• One of the hopes we have when we hear or read an interview with a mystery writer is to get inside the writer's head, to learn something we didn't know before.

  

  Otto Penzler
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  • Learn
  • Mystery

• It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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  • Own
  • Worth

• It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Job
  • Never
  • Finish

• I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Day
  • Play

• Art, rightly applied, provided humanity with the symbols, insight, and vicarious experience necessary to help one person place him- or herself in the shoes of another, and by so doing come to appreciate the commonality of human experience.

  

  Aberjhani
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  • Experience
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• If you say actors have a social responsibility to do things, you are right, in a way. It's a wishful decision. But if it's done out of force, I don't think it will accomplish anything. Everybody starts counting how much work they have done and see if they have done their due for the week. That is not social service. You need to go way beyond that.

  

  R. Madhavan
  • Work
  • Responsibility
  • Decision

• Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Science
  • New
  • Year

• I can assure you that no string theorist would be interested in working on string theory if it were somehow permanently beyond testability. That would no longer be doing science.

  

  Brian Greene
  • Science

• I'd love to drive a Bugatti - something totally ridiculous but super fast.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Ridiculous
  • Drive
  • Fast

• The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool, while tricky, is extraordinarily powerful and convenient.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
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