Conrad Wolfram Quotes

Maths should be more practical and more conceptual, but less mechanical.

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• In India, it is difficult for a cricketer to show that he is under some kind of stress. Here, you can only retire when you don't want to play anymore, or the motivation is lacking.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Want
  • Stress
  • motivation

• You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Qualities
  • Charismatic
  • Revered

• Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • People
  • Women
  • Interesting

• I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Great
  • Expectations

• I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • Myself
  • Enjoy
  • Director

• My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It's the new ones that I haven't identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body - at least by mine.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Wife
  • Body
  • Complain

• I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Hope
  • Dogs
  • Tongue

• I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Feet

• Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • People
  • You
  • Solitude

• The one thing we know about the future is that it will not be like today. I don't think that people should be too anxious about not knowing what they are going to do in the future, because we really can't know.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • People
  • Future
  • Today

• With my dad coming from a theatre tradition, there was a lot of preparation before auditions. Not just in terms of saying the lines correctly but a process of entering into what it was all about.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Dad
  • Theatre
  • Saying

• I'm not somebody who's emotionally attached to an outcome of a character that I'm hired to play. The fans are.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Character
  • Play
  • Fans

• There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • People
  • Work
  • Competition

• I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.

  

  Ted Lyons
  • Law
  • Better
  • Realize

• my fiancé is so handsome. Imma have to send his parents a fruit basket thanking them for creating the perfect man.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Parents
  • Perfect

• It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered.

  

  Larry Wall

• A final argument for broad freedom of expression is its effect on the character of individuals in a society. Citizens in a free society must have courage — the courage to hear not only unwelcome political speech but novel and shocking ideas in science and the arts.

  

  Anthony Lewis
  • Character
  • Society
  • Free

• It is fear that drives the hippies to seek the warmth, the protection, the safety of a herd. When they speak of merging themselves into a 'greater whole,' it is their fear that they hope to drown in the undemanding waves of unfastidious human bodies - and what they hope to fish out of that pool is the momentary illusion of an unearned personal significance.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Safety

• I want to inspire other young kids, no matter what their background is or where they're from or anything like that, that they can go out there and, if you work hard, you can do anything.

  

  Adam Rippon
  • Work
  • Kids

• If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

  

  Doug Larson
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• Although the insights we can have in meditation tell us nothing about the origins of the universe, they do confirm some well-established truths about the human mind: Our conventional sense of self is an illusion; positive emotions, such as compassion and patience, are teachable skills; and the way we think directly influences our experience of the world.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Mind
  • Experience

• Smart and savvy, the fearless female member of George Washington's Secret Six is a testament to the strong women who have helped to alter the course of history in this great nation, both in terms of large-scale battles and in the new opportunities they have helped create for future generations through their own fearless examples.

  

  Brian Kilmeade
  • Great
  • Women
  • History

• Maths should be more practical and more conceptual, but less mechanical.

  

  Conrad Wolfram