Numbers Quotes
You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems.
Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact.
Each country can absorb only a limited number of Jews, if she doesn't want disorders in her stomach. Germany already has too many Jews
All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.
People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.
I got Robbie's mobile number and rang him. It went to his voicemail: 'Hi, it's Robbie - whazzup!' Like the Budweiser ad. I never called him back. I thought: 'I can't be f****** signing that'.
And now each night, I count the stars. And each night I get the same number. And when the stars won't come to be counted, I count the holes they leave.
Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.
The number-one rule of the road is never go to bed with anyone crazier than yourself. You will break this rule, and you will be sorry.
Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism.
Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.
Bad reviews I've gotten never diminished the number of people in my audience; good reviews have never added to the number of people in my audience; be your own critic.
One of our anxieties is de-focusing the relatively small number of engineers we have. Within our own core development, I am reluctant to fund projects that are way afield of where we are.
There are an endless number of things to discover about robotics. A lot of it is just too fantastic for people to believe.
The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.
Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy and feel extremely uncomfortable with silence.
Musical numbers should carry the action of the play and should be representative of the personalities of the characters who sing them.
Don't worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too.
The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals.
You'd think one day we'd learn. You don't get anything unless you fight for it, united and with visible numbers. If ACT UP taught us anything, it taught us that.
The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win.
The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods: the gods are there, behind the wall, at play with numbers.
Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.
I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and people I can never be.
The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior.
Whether or not our prayer is heard depends not on the number of our words, but on the fervor of our souls.
There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.
The fact is that I made a stand a number of times in my career, and I did it because I knew I was right.
I relax completely when I'm at rest. I don't think of numbers; I don't think of work.
There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.
We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the Internet.
Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by an increasing number of businesses.
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.
Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level.
I think people use fame as an excuse to lose their faith. Faith is obviously my number one priority and I think you need to put God at the top of everything you do.
A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not for the tenants.
My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.