Numbers Quotes
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Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.
Rowan Williams
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Musical numbers should carry the action of the play and should be representative of the personalities of the characters who sing them.
Jerome Kern
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God made the natural numbers; all else is the work of man.
Leopold Kronecker
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It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably in a world full of an increasing number of disagreeable surprises.
M. F. K. Fisher
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But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
George Eliot
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Managers watch over our numbers, our time and our results. Leaders watch over us.
Simon Sinek
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There is, unfortunately, too large a number of people who are just outright bigots in America. They're nowhere near a majority. They're a small number. But there are people who are in the Alt-Right who are just straight up bigots.
Van Jones
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Looking at numbers as groups of rocks may seem unusual, but actually it's as old as math itself. The word "calculate" reflects that legacy - it comes from the Latin word calculus, meaning a pebble used for counting. To enjoy working with numbers you don't have to be Einstein (German for "one stone"), but it might help to have rocks in your head.
Steven Strogatz
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To be the best of all time, you have to do it over and over. I want to keep it up, and then the numbers will speak for themselves.
Edgerrin James
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When you get a black belt, it’s not the number of techniques you know, but how well you know them.
Caio Terra
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The idea of massive amounts of fame-having my face on Walgreens end-caps and pizza boxes-I don't fantasize about that. I'm happy with just being a songwriter. I'd rather have smaller numbers [of fans] that are really into what I'm doing than a massive amount of people that don't really know what I'm about.
Kacey Musgraves
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When a whole system is composed of a numbers of subsystems, the one that tends to dominate is the least stable.
William Ross Ashby
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The problem, of course, was that turning into a monster was the brighter of my two choices. Choice Number 1: I turn into a vampyre, which equals a monster in just about any human’s mind. Choice Number 2: My body rejects the Change and I die. Forever. So the good news is that I wouldn’t have to take the geometry test tomorrow.
P. C. Cast
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It's - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that's excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers.
Herb Alpert
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Beyond the natural numbers, addition, multiplication, and mathematical induction are intuitively clear.
L. E. J. Brouwer
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We are always looking for a small number of very evil needles in a very large haystack, which is the city of London.
Charles Clarke
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True elegance consists not in having a closet bursting with clothes, but rather in having a few well-chosen numbers in which one feels totally at ease.
Coco Chanel
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According to a CNN poll, Trump nearly doubled his support from March. Actually, he just combed his March numbers over his current ones.
Conan O'Brien
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The greatest threat to U.S. and global security is no longer a nuclear exchange between nations, but nuclear terrorism by violent extremists and nuclear proliferation to an increasing number of states.
Barack Obama
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We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.
Mother Teresa
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I can't really characterize any country, except to say that we work well with a number of our foreign counterparts.
Barack Obama
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Every decision, every debate, no matter how important it is, with the same question: 'What does this mean for the next election? What does it mean for your poll numbers? Is this good for the Democrats or good for the Republicans? Who won the news cycle?' That's just how Washington is. They can't help it. They're obsessed with the sport of politics.
Barack Obama
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When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.
Honore de Balzac