"When you mathematize something you distill its essence."

-- W. Brian Arthur

#Essence Quotes

“The sun is nice but it lights things up so much that you can't see very far... The night time is better. It stretches your soul to the stars.”
“I've been living for 17 years, and I've noticed human relations is the most difficult thing to understand...”
“it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.”
“The very secret of life for mewas to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility. I had picked a life that dealt with excitement, tragedy, mass calamities, human triumphs and suffering. To throw my whole self into recording and attempting to understand these things, I needed an inner serenity as a kind of balance.”
“For every person that likes you there is going to be a person that doesn't like you. It's the nature of humanity.”
“What I learned very quickly is that if you get it right in the first two or three takes, it's not going to get that much better.”
“In many cases, you're forced to make deals that are not the deal you'd make.”

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“My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.”

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