Top numbers Quotes Collection

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Image of Simon R. Green
There are any number of magical creatures, mostly female, whose singing can bring about horror and death. Sirens, undines, banshees, Bananarama tribute bands...
- Simon R. Green
Collection: Numbers
Image of C. Northcote Parkinson
Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.
- C. Northcote Parkinson
Collection: Numbers
Image of Eric Greitens
There were a number of definitions of courage, but now I was seeing it in its simplest form: you do what has to be done day after day, and you never quit.
- Eric Greitens
Collection: Numbers
Image of John Derbyshire
I tell you, with complex numbers you can do anything.
- John Derbyshire
Collection: Numbers
Image of George Q. Cannon
The Journal of Discourses ranks as one of the standard works of the Church, and every right-minded Saint will certainly welcome with joy every Number as it comes forth from the press as an additional reflector of 'the light that shines from Zion's hill.
- George Q. Cannon
Collection: Numbers
Image of Hanna Rosin
Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.
- Hanna Rosin
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Image of Anthony Storr
Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it.
- Anthony Storr
Collection: Numbers
Image of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority of a religion, not upon the nobility of a race, not on the merits of talents and of riches. It merely rests upon numbers and hides behind the name of the people.
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Collection: Numbers
Image of Alice Walker
I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.
- Alice Walker
Collection: Numbers
Image of David Sedaris
I'm the most important person in the lives of almost everyone I know and a good number of the people I've never even met.
- David Sedaris
Collection: Numbers
Image of John Berendt
Rule number one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.
- John Berendt
Collection: Numbers
Image of Edward Tufte
If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.
- Edward Tufte
Collection: Numbers
Image of Daniel J. Siegel
The number of possible "on-off" patterns of neuronal firing is immense, estimated as a staggering ten times ten one million times (ten to the millionth power). The brain is obviously capable of an imponderably huge variety of activity; the fact that it is often organized and functional is quite an accomplishment!
- Daniel J. Siegel
Collection: Numbers
Image of Paul Zane Pilzer
Our wealth is rewarded directly in proportion to the number of people with whom we are willing to share.
- Paul Zane Pilzer
Collection: Numbers
Image of Mary Ruefle
In life, the number of beginnings is exactly equal to the number of endings ... In poetry, the number of beginnings so far exceeds the number of endings that we cannot even conceive of it.
- Mary Ruefle
Collection: Numbers
Image of Christian Siriano
When Gwyneth Paltrow wore a dress of ours, that was probably our number one best seller besides when the lovely Mrs. [Michelle] Obama wore our dress.
- Christian Siriano
Collection: Numbers
Image of Jacqueline Susann
Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them.
- Jacqueline Susann
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Image of Sara Paretsky
Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.
- Sara Paretsky
Collection: Numbers
Image of Randall Munroe
I've always thought that one of the the great thing about physics is that you can add more digits to any number and see what happens and nobody can stop you.
- Randall Munroe
Collection: Numbers
Image of Ken Blanchard
Beware of putting all your focus into results. While results are important, your people should be your number one area of focus.
- Ken Blanchard
Collection: Numbers
Image of Ashley Scott
I know what's like to be young and have atrocious spelling, spelling words all backwards, mixing up numbers, addresses. and things like that.
- Ashley Scott
Collection: Numbers
Image of Arlen Specter
The passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, recognizing the potential danger that the aircraft they were aboard posed to large numbers of innocent Americans, American institutions, and the symbols of American democracy, took heroic and noble action to ensure that the aircraft they were aboard could not be used as a weapon.
- Arlen Specter
Collection: Numbers
Image of Derek Landy
When I meet people, I no longer say "Hi, I'm Derek Landy, pleased to meet you." Now I say "Hi, I'm number one bestselling author Derek Landy. Worship me.
- Derek Landy
Collection: Numbers
Image of Mortimer Adler
Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.
- Mortimer Adler
Collection: Numbers
Image of Tobias Smollett
Number three is always fortunate.
- Tobias Smollett
Collection: Numbers
Image of Pete Doherty
No one comes up to me asking for a crack dealer's number. People come up to me to talk about lyrics, about music, about the band.
- Pete Doherty
Collection: Numbers
Image of Anthony Marra
But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime. How many times can a beloved reappear?
- Anthony Marra
Collection: Numbers
Image of George Osborne
Let's also teach people about pensions and savings, insurance and the like. But if they aren't already familiar with numbers that won't be as effective as it might be.
- George Osborne
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Image of Jane Addams
That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.
- Jane Addams
Collection: Numbers
Image of Paul Murray
Maybe instead of strings it's stories things are made of, an infinite number of tiny vibrating stories; once upon a time they all were part of one big giant superstory, except it got broken up into a jillion different pieces, that's why no story on its own makes any sense, and so what you have to do in a life is try and weave it back together, my story into your story, our stories into all the other people's we know, until you've got something that to God or whoever might look like a letter, or even a whole word.
- Paul Murray
Collection: Numbers
Image of Edwin A. Abbott
Doubtless, the life of an Irregular is hard; but the interests of the Greater Number require that it shall be hard.
- Edwin A. Abbott
Collection: Numbers
Image of James Monroe
The earth was given to mankind to support the greatest number of which it is capable, and no tribe or people have a right to withhold from the wants of others more than is necessary for their own support and comfort.
- James Monroe
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Image of Daniel Tammet
One particular aspect of Siddhartha’s revelation of the outside world has always struck me. Quite possibly he lived his first thirty years without any knowledge of number. How must he have felt, then, to see crowds of people mingling in the streets? Before that day he would not have believed that so many people existed in all the world. And what wonder it must have been to discover flocks of birds, and piles of stones, leaves on trees and blades of grass! To suddenly realise that, his whole life long, he had been kept at arm’s length from multiplicity.
- Daniel Tammet
Collection: Numbers
Image of Hugh Downs
How many times has the end of the world been predicted? The same number of times the prediction has proved false.
- Hugh Downs
Collection: Numbers
Image of Kelly Slater
Everything started coming into my head, ... I was the youngest world champ and now I'm the oldest world champ; it's been seven years since I won my last title and this is my seventh one ... but all those numbers and things are not as important as the feeling.
- Kelly Slater
Collection: Numbers
Image of Fran Tarkenton
Profit isn't and shouldn't be the mission of business. The mission of business is to help people. To help your customers, your co-workers, your employees, and your partners. Success is not a number - it's not X dollars or Y customers - it's a measurement of VALUE.
- Fran Tarkenton
Collection: Numbers
Image of Mark Zuckerberg
My number one piece of advice is: you should learn how to program.
- Mark Zuckerberg
Collection: Numbers
Image of Geraldo Rivera
The Jewish people, for their tiny numbers, have done superbly. They don't need me. They have Einstein. They have everybody - Maury Povich.
- Geraldo Rivera
Collection: Numbers
Image of T. Colin Campbell
Let’s start with the most prominent ecological crisis of our time: global warming. When you look seriously at the numbers, you find that switching from a meat-based to a plant-based diet would do more to curb and reverse global warming than any other initiative.
- T. Colin Campbell
Collection: Numbers
Image of Richard J. Needham
When people are against profits they're against business; when they're against business, they're against employment; when they're against employment, it's not surprising that a large number of them are unemployed.
- Richard J. Needham
Collection: Numbers
Image of Alexander von Humboldt
Statistical projections which speak to the senses without fatiguing the mind, possess the advantage of fixing the attention on a great number of important facts.
- Alexander von Humboldt
Collection: Numbers
Image of William Petty
Without the knowledge of the true number of the people, as a principle, the whole scope and use of keeping bills of birth and burials is impaired; wherefore by laborious conjectures and calculations to deduce the number of people from the births and burials, may be ingenious, but very preposterous.
- William Petty
Collection: Numbers
Image of Eric Ripert
Fast food is both evil and genius. Because of it we can feed a large number of people fairly decently at an affordable price. However, all the artificial flavors and artificial ingredients in some of their products are unacceptable. And it's designed so you can eat fast so you get back to work more quickly. Not good.
- Eric Ripert
Collection: Numbers
Image of Bill McKibben
The movers and shakers on our planet, aren't the billionaires and generals, they are the incredible numbers of people around the world filled with love for neighbor and for the earth who are resisting, remaking, restoring, renewing and revitalising.
- Bill McKibben
Collection: Numbers
Image of Terrell Owens
Jerry (Rice) played until he was 42. At 39, I ran a 4.43 40-yard dash. You look at the number of dropped balls and the way guys are playing now and you can't honestly say I can't do better.
- Terrell Owens
Collection: Numbers
Image of John Tyler
If we find ourselves increasing beyond example in numbers, in strength, in wealth, in knowledge, in everything which promotes human and social happiness, let us ever remember our dependence for all these on the protection and merciful dispensations of Divine Providence.
- John Tyler
Collection: Numbers
Image of Carolyn Keene
I'll wire the International Federation of American Homing Pigeon Fanciers and give them the number stamped on the bird's leg ring.
- Carolyn Keene
Collection: Numbers
Image of Ichiro Suzuki
I didn't know I hit that way (.625 with runners in scoring position). Maybe not knowing is my secret. If I chased numbers, maybe I wouldn't have as good results.
- Ichiro Suzuki
Collection: Numbers
Image of Hayao Miyazaki
The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.
- Hayao Miyazaki
Collection: Numbers