Numbers Quotes
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Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.
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The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.
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The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.
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Happiness includes all numbers. It's infinite and eternal.
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In every game, there's three teams out there. There's the two basketball teams and the team of officials. If the two teams are evenly matched, it can come down to number of possessions. If one out-of-bounds call goes the wrong way, that can be the difference.
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No matter that astronauts and cosmonauts had perished in precisely designed and carefully tested machines. Solid engineering could always provide a safety margin, because the engineers believed, there was complete safety in numbers.
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I never close my mind to anything and eventually want to branch out. But for now, tennis is still number one for me.
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[Writing] is edit, edit, edit. It's almost like getting a boat ready to go to sea. You've still got a countless number of things left to fix, but you've just got to go, "O.K., everybody get on the boat. We're going, ready or not."
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The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack.
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Don't call a girl obsessed when she's in love.
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I think my father is probably the best coach ever because, if we talk about numbers, he's got a lot and he's only had two players.
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I'm not thinking about my numbers. I'm just trying to do the best I can to help the team win.
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Competition is all in numbers; it's a numbers game, but I looked at it like it's a passion, and it's art.
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Over the last 30 years there have been a steadily growing number of architects who are returning to traditional and classical principles.
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Scandal has a thousand stringers; good news doesn't know the editor's phone number.
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Cities are the huge central dynamos of all being. The power of a man can be measured today by the mile, the number of miles between him and the city; that is, between him and what the city stands for -- the centre of mass.
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We still have time to negotiate, we still have time for diplomacy, because there are still a number of issues that have not been clarified, that created a lack of confidence.
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Mind you, I would not want the pressure of being number one in the world just two years before a World Cup. There is only one way to go and it is not up.
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Let me tell you girls the three most important things I learned about life: Number one: Hold fast to your friends; number two: There's no such thing as security; and number three: Don't go see 'Ishtar.'
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To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month.
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But it takes so little to help people, and people really do help each other, even people with very little themselves. And it’s not just about second chances. Most people deserve an endless number of chances.
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For years I exercised to be thinner, and I never got the results I wanted. When I finally started working out to be healthier, I saw a transformation. I've even quit weighing myself so I don't obsess over the numbers.
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Here's a two step formula for handling stress. Step number one: Don't sweat the small stuff. Step number two: Remember it's all small stuff.
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I just keep thinking about putting up good numbers, playing hard and winning games.
