Elliot Cowan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.

  • To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.

  • I've become more introverted as I've got older. I used to be an outgoing person who joked around a lot, but as the amount of energy I expend by sharing my music has increased, I like to balance it by spending time by myself and recuperating.

  • Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.

  • What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

  • The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished.

  • For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd be just so much better at ping pong and this confidence with ping pong.

  • The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.

  • One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.

  • My parents just tell me, ‘If you know what you want, you should stay determined and go for it. You can do anything.’