Number Quotes
4034 Number quotes by 2939 unique authors
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To be able to achieve the laudable goals (of preventing and treating HIV/AIDS), especially for us in sub-Saharan Africa, there is the need for us…
— John Dramani Mahama
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Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
— Michel de Montaigne
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We are entitled to personal revelation, especially when it concerns our own or our children's lives and what has been foreordained for them. This is…
— Richard M. Eyre
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Alas! it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to light the fires…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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As he was growing up, his family moved and lived in a number of different places in Utah, Arizona, and Wyoming. I didn't know then…
— F. Burton Howard
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First, it is necessary to study the facts, to multiply the number of observations, and then later to search for formulas that connect them so…
— Augustin-Louis Cauchy
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Thus number may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be made, or if…
— Tony Hoare
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If you have a large number of unrelated ideas, you have to get quite a distance away from them to get a view of all…
— John G. Kemeny
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Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes in a day.
— Denis Waitley
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Our investments continue to be few in number and simple in concept: The truly big investment idea can usually be explained in a short paragraph.…
— Warren Buffett
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My brothers, seek counsel of one another, for therein lies the way out of error and futile repentance. The wisdom of the many is your…
— Khalil Gibran
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We may be able to tell how many stars are in the Milky Way; we may be able to count the petals of every flower,…
— Henry Van Dyke
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Spin Me Round was number one all over the world, everywhere. It changed the face of pop music, no question. We took technology further than…
— Pete Waterman
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In executing an Artful Strategy: When ten times greater, surround them; When five times greater, attack them; When two times greater, scatter them. If the…
— Sun Tzu
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If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say, 'This poet…
— William Shakespeare
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Genius of AND. Embrace both extremes on a number of dimensions at the same time. Instead of choosing a OR B, figure out how to…
— James C. Collins
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Every organization has an allotted number of positions to be filled by misfits.
— Unknown Author
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There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles,…
— Oscar Wilde
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I figured out, I guess, that the job just makes me happy if it's not number one. So if it all works, great. If it…
— Thomas Kretschmann
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Customers should be number 1, Employees number 2, and then only your Shareholders come at number 3.
— Jack Ma
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Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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When I was 19 years old, I was the number one star of the world for two years; when I was 40, nobody wanted me;…
— Mickey Rooney
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There are more stars known to exist right now than the total number of all the grains of sand on every beach in the entire…
— Hugh Downs
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The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure…
— Martin Filler
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