V.I. Arnold Quotes

Rests always sound well.

What do you hang on the walls of your mind?

A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might as well be dead.

When the Jews leave Russia, Communism will collapse there. World Jewry is today relocating to America. Thus the real threat of Communism in America has just begun.

The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.

Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.

I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish?

Im a realist, not a sugar coater. I believe in always letting people know what their obstacles are. And at the end of the day, I just want to be respected for my hard work.

If you want to be a champion you cannot have any kind of an outside negative force coming in to deflect you.

Positive thinking can be contagious. Being surrounded by winners helps you develop into a winner.

Obviously, I've made statements that were ludicrous and crazy and outrageous and all those things, because that's the way I always was.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow.

My only rule is to keep moving, for a pump and cardio at the same time. Rest as little as possible. After an hour, you will feel fantastic and your muscles won't know what hit them.

Sweetest smile is made saddest tear-drop!

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry.

People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and sometimes I take them minute by minute, but I honor my commitment to stay sober.

Too quick despairer, wherefore wilt thou go? Soon will the high Midsummer pomps come on, Soon will the musk carnations break and swell.

Always have one possibility in mind and that is to go to the top, to be the best. Everything else should just be a means to that end.

Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.

So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.

Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.

I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.

Structural work is only a bandage unless feelings have been healed.

Nothing is harder to resist than a bit of flattery.

I can sum it up like this: Thank God for the game of golf.

Establish a system you have confidence in and rely on it when you get into tough situations.

It seems to me that no one picture can ever be a final summation of a personality. There are so many facets in every human being that it is impossible to present them all in one photograph.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

There is no such thing as gratitude in international politics.

A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

All exercises that you do with your own bodyweight are great.

Advice from friends is like the weather. Some of it is good; some of it is bad.

The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Dear God, I pray for patience and I want it right now.

My advice to any traveler who is traveling in order to learn would be: 'Fight tooth and nail to be permitted to travel in what is technically the least efficient way.'

Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better.

If you want to be a physicist, you must do three things-first, study mathematics, second, study more mathematics, and third, do the same.

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

Photography is 1% talent and 99% moving furniture.

Leadership is a group project, and all of us are necessary to fill it. Wise leaders will realize this and encourage their groups to develop their own evolving leadership potential.

People have a need to feel their pain. Very often pain is the beginning of a great deal of awareness. As an energy center it awakens consciousness.

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

The Body Is Very Important, But The Mind Is MORE Important Than The Body

There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.

What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.