Kevin Plank Quotes

The companies that do well are the companies that use math.

Kevin Plank

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• Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes for fun, 'cause I missed them from high school!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • School
  • Fun
  • High

• I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just don't have time for a full-time teaching gig. Acting is way too time-consuming.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Love

• My initial thoughts of becoming a lawyer changed in high school as I became more attracted to math and science and began talking about being an engineer.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • School
  • High
  • Science

• If I do have kids, I can't wait because I'm excited to go back to school to help them with their homework and remember how to do simple math. I think it's about staying curious and not losing the sense of wonder.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • School
  • Kids
  • Remember

• I'm so Republican, my first name starts with 'R.' I'm so right-wing - well, Randy Weber. You do the math.

  

  Randy Weber
  • You
  • Name
  • Math

• I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.

  

  Major Owens
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • May
  • Never
  • Students

• No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Long
  • Party
  • Wisdom

• Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Important
  • Guy
  • Feeling

• I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Imagination
  • Never
  • Teacher

• Affirmative action makes employers think, 'Black woman nuclear physicist? Hah! Probably let her into Harvard 'cause they were looking for a twofer. Bet she got C's in high school practical math. Give her a job in personnel.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • School
  • Job
  • Black

• I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst.

  

  Nathan Kress
  • Good
  • Never
  • Math

• I studied math, and I was terrible at it.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Math
  • Terrible
  • Studied

• You're working with adults and you're being paid to do a job. And you're a kid. Then you go back to high school, and everybody's partying, and they're doing math. I always felt a little bit outside of it. Outside of both experiences, really.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • School
  • Job
  • High

• I went to high school in Columbia. I met my first wife, Richards, whom I married while I was working on a B.S. in chemistry at Georgia Tech. She bore Louise, and I studied. I learned most of the useful technical things - math, physics, chemistry - that I now use during those four years.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • School
  • She
  • High

• Kids: If a bear is wearing a ranger hat, it's because he ate the ranger!

  

  Craig Ferguson
  • Kids

• He was unusual in the fact that he was also an excellent (math) teacher. In those days, most coaches taught P.E.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Teacher
  • Math
  • Fact

• In general, the hedge funds were clobbered by the 1969 bear market, ending up in many cases with records that were worse than those put together by aggressive mutual funds denied the luxury of short sales.

  

  Carol Loomis
  • Up
  • Together
  • Sales

• I wasn't the biggest Captain America fan, but increasingly, I see him as a great character. Winter Soldier really got into what it meant to actually represent America.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Great
  • Character
  • America

• The Taiwanese are big on tea. I think it's nice to slow down a bit. It's very much a custom.

  

  Jason Wu
  • Nice
  • Tea

• To be beyond any existing classification has always pleased me.

  

  Boyd Rice

• The companies that do well are the companies that use math.

  

  Kevin Plank
  • Math