"JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide."

-- Paulo Coelho

#Joy Quotes #Foundation Quotes #Mathematics Quotes

“Have the courage to follow your dreams. It's the first step towards attaining your destiny.”
“His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!”
“Unfortunately, in the field of evolution most explanations are not good. As a matter of fact, they hardly qualify as explanations at all; they are suggestions, hunches, pipe dreams, hardly worthy of being called hypotheses.”
“I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or am I?”

Source : "Otto Dix, 1891-1969", exhibition catalogue, London: Tate Gallery, 1992, pp. 17 - 18; as cited by Roy Forward, in "Education resource material: beauty, truth and goodness in Dix's War", p. 9,
“It was amazing. You don't have a choice but to play your best. They force you do do that because they're smart and that's the fun part for me, I'm being challenged to think faster and be creative.”
“Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.”
“I wouldn't say pop stars hit on me - that's just stuff the papers make up.”
“Today there are a huge number of think tanks working on poverty-related issues; there are books written on the topic; and university centers being created to study poverty. But, at the same time, the media has a terribly hard time with this issue; it's very hard to convince editors and publishers to devote resources to complex investigations of the lives of America's poor. And, as a result, too often poverty is portrayed in stereotypes, in sound bites, in a few pat images rather than in its full Technicolor complexity and diversity.”

You may also like:

Agatha Christie
Novelist
Dan Brown
Author
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Novelist
J. K. Rowling
Novelist
Jorge Amado
Film writer
Jorge Luis Borges
Writer
Khaled Hosseini
Novelist
Mata Hari
Exotic dancer
Pablo Neruda
Senator of Chile