Numbers Quotes
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I know there are other writers who sit down religiously every morning, they take their espresso, they put a clean sheet of paper there and they sit looking at that paper until they've finished or covered at least a number of those pages. No, I'm not like that. I have to be ready. It has to gestate it for quite a while and then it's ready to burst forth.
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I wanted my book to make people cry, but I feel like I'm the only person who my book is going to make cry, if they show me the sales numbers.
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I haven't even thought about a world record. I just want to go out there and have fun. I think when you focus too much on the numbers, you don't see anything that's out there.
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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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I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.
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Never complain, about the number of hours you have put in, to do a job, Your nobility must estimate how much of you Was put into each hour of your daily work
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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.
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Being in the health industry can do a major number on your head when it comes to body image.
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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.
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That's all baseball is, is numbers; it's run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers.
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If anybody would have told me I'd be making number seven Fast & Furious, I would have said, "You're crazy."
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You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to any of your heroes. Become what you wish to be.
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There are a number of golfers who are playing great golf in their 40s.
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If you want to get off this team you have to take a number.
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The only reason people are saying I'm the number-one player is because I'm with the number-one team.
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The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.
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Race ain't nothing but a number.
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It's very rare that someone who is so good at the language of numbers, is as good at the language of life. They're two very different worlds.
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Just under 10 seconds for Nigel Mansell. Call it 9.5 seconds in round numbers.
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Air control can be established by superiority in numbers, by better employment, by better equipment, or by a combination of these factors.
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The largest known prime number is 2^32582657-1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary.
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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.
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If you haven't cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn't really begun.
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No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.
