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“We're not going to act in a soft way for what we believe needs to be done.”
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“While no rigorous proof of an optimal strategy has been achieved, Robbins has proposed the principal of "staying on a winner" and has shown it to be uniformly better than a strategy of random selection.”
Source : "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.
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“With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.”
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“Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.”
Source : Zhuangzi, Gia-fu Feng (1974). “Chuang tsu: Inner chapters”, Vintage
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“I would rather be at Reggae Sunsplash, which happens once a year, than doing some horrible Brady Bunch reunion.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“My work has the abstraction underneath it all now & what I deliberately set out to do down here, for this is the perfect realistic abstraction in landscape.”
Source : "Marsden Hartley" by Gail R. Scott, Abbeville Publishers, Cross River Press, New York (p. 68), 1988.
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“I don't know if it'd be any time soon but I'd really like to work on a collaboration with somebody - I always have ideas for stuff like that.”
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“Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.”
Source : Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.307, University of Chicago Press