Numbers Quotes
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Numbers are a fearful thing.
Euripides -
If you haven't cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn't really begun.
Ajahn Chah
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That's the number one thing I hear about humans. You have all these choices, so you're confused all the time, and you think so much that you're never happy.
Ned Vizzini -
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.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson -
Being in the health industry can do a major number on your head when it comes to body image.
Kathryn Budig -
I actually think that her Hillary Clinton numbers are artificially low.
Bill Burton -
The largest known prime number is 2^32582657-1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary.
Carl Pomerance -
Do you know that every day, 10 people in Afghanistan are injured by landmines? It will continue for the next 50 years, because the country has the largest number of landmines in the world.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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I have never thought for a moment that if you cannot say it with numbers that it just is not worth saying. But all the same, I do firmly believe that where you cannot put numbers to work you will understand the matter better and more clearly for being able to explain why.
Nicholas Rescher -
My number one goal was to always have to opportunity to have an international business of some sort, opening in Paris, opening in Tokyo, opening in Singapore for example, that was always my dream, and so it came about.
David Myers -
My number one financial priority is security. Not having to worry about how I am going to meet the bills and not owing anybody anything. I keep my outgoings as low as possible and save as much as I can.
Kate Thornton -
If anybody would have told me I'd be making number seven Fast & Furious, I would have said, "You're crazy."
Neal H. Moritz -
We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul.
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes -
How can such a disproportionately large number of people have a definite, and unusually positive relationship to Mozart?
Wolfgang Hildesheimer
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During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry.
Rudolph A. Marcus -
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.
David Campese -
Religion that is imposed upon its recipients turns out to engender either indifference or resentment. Most American religious leaders have recognized that persuasion is far more powerful than coercion when it comes to promoting one's religious views. . . . Not surprisingly, then, large numbers of religious leaders have supported the Supreme Court in its prayer decisions.
William F. Schulz -
Guys get voted into the Hall of Fame who don't belong, who lack the numbers. I'm very upset at the Hall of Fame for that. It's not fair to the people who went in early.
Raymond Floyd -
Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose.
William Zinsser -
There's the underlying feeling that writing must be easy, because it's all about putting letters together. That's only true in the same way that programming is all about putting numbers together.
Rhianna Pratchett
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Maths is like learning a language: you need to learn the basics to get going, but a lot of adults go into blind panic about numbers and switch off.
Rachel Riley -
Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only sporadically used the techniques to memorize the phone numbers of people I actually wanted to call. I found it was just too simple to punch them into my cell phone.
Joshua Foer -
The only reason people are saying I'm the number-one player is because I'm with the number-one team.
Moses Malone -
I think that rather than talking about particular models, of which there could be a huge number, we should talk about basic principles of democracy. After all, even within the West, there is no single standard and single model.
Vladimir Putin