Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes

If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.

Benoit Mandelbrot

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• Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Different
  • Day

• We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Normal

• A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Nature
  • Plant
  • Flowers

• Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Good
  • Single
  • Day

• When I was younger, I went through a phase when I didn't like my hair. Because the school I went to was primarily Caucasian, there wasn't anyone who had my hair texture. I remember one day I straightened my hair, and that was the first day that people gave me compliments on it.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • School
  • Remember

• It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.

  

  Sally Mann
  • History
  • Church
  • Road

• Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Religious
  • Nothing

• If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Life
  • Wish
  • Alternative

• I've always taken direction pretty well.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Pretty
  • Taken
  • Always

• I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Job
  • Game
  • Political

• As an individual, I need space and can't be locked in a house with strangers. I would do 'Bigg Boss' if I get to co-host it with Salman Khan.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • House
  • Space
  • Individual

• The best players I have seen and known have confidence in their teammates. They know that basketball's not a one-man game. That confidence brings out the best in everybody, because it's contagious.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Game
  • Best
  • Confidence

• I learned how quickly I could go from having never met someone to having the world think I'm dating them.

  

  Halsey
  • World
  • Think
  • Dating

• We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.

  

  Ice T
  • Up
  • Music
  • Writing

• Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.

  

  Nanci Griffith
  • God
  • Live
  • Song

• When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Fear
  • Model

• We can't just pay attention to women who look fantastic in a photograph, because there are a lot of people that have fantastic things to say that don't look like 25-year-old white models.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • People
  • Women
  • Attention

• I've never really thought of myself as an entrepreneur. I think of an entrepreneur as someone who wants to make a lot of money. That has never been at the top of my list.

  

  James Goodnight
  • Money
  • Entrepreneur

• Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • United States
  • Senate
  • Recognizing

• Killing and gangbanging, that's just wrong.

  

  Nipsey Hussle
  • Killing

• You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Up
  • Energy

• You're not going to be able to look like anyone else, no matter how hard you try, unless you're a mimic, then you're not acting, you're just mimicking. You can't go on being John Wayne, that's John Wayne. So you're not going to steal from John Wayne. I'm not going to steal from John Wayne and you're not going to come back and say 'Didn't you get that from the circus?' You know. But he is one of those people who instructs me, whom I look up to - whom I think is one of the masters of his craft that I am so enamoured of.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Masters
  • Craft
  • Circus

• If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot