Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Richard Bach

Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.

Richard Bach

To me, one of the most profound questions we can ask is: "So what?" And so what if there's an indefinite number of worlds with alternate "us-es" in them? The "so what," to me, comes alive when I ask myself: "What if I could find a way to get in touch with those alternate mes who made those choices?" That is, persons who, if I saw them now, I wouldn't even recognize because their choices, once small, have multiplied to make them such different people.

Richard Bach

With every decision that anyone makes, the world changes. The decision that we give our consent to is the one that remains in our consciousness, but the one that we didn't make-that alternate world goes on in its own direction. So there's uncountable numbers of alternate "us-es."

Robert Blair

Our time is fixed, and all our days are number'd; How long, how short, we know not:—this we know, Duty requires we calmly wait the summons, Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission.

Thomas de Quincey

A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.

Thomas Browne

I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.

Timothy Garton Ash

So what were Europeans telling their leaders? The general message was perfectly summed up by the cartoonist Chappatte, who drew a group of protesters holding up a placard shouting "Unhappy" -- and one of their number shouting through a megaphone into the ballot box. There are 28 member states and 28 varieties of Unhappy.

Timothy Leary

Essentially, there's a universe inside your brain. The number of connections possible inside your brain is limitless. And as people have learned to have more managerial and direct creative access to their brains, they have also developed matrices or networks of people that communicate electronically. There are direct brain/computer link-ups. You can just jack yourself in and pilot your brain around in cyberspace-electronic space.

Thomas Sowell

The first rule of economics is that there is an infinite number of desires chasing a finite number of goods, services and resources. The first rule of politics is to ignore the first rule of economics.

Thomas Piketty

Refusing to deal with numbers rarely serves the interests of the least well-off.

Robert Musil

[...] a number of flawed individuals can often add up to a brilliant social unit.

Robert Musil

... there is a particular propensity in the world for people, wherever they appear in great numbers, to permit themselves collectively everything that would be forbidden them individually.

Robert Metcalfe

In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system.

Rickey Henderson

If you look at some of the people in the Hall of Fame, my numbers are compatible.

Richard Leakey

It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause

Richard Leakey

The greatest problem we face is the growing number of people living in poverty. The related sense of hopelessness has to be impacting on every part of environmental management.

Ric Keller

Finally, we need more Border Patrol agents. Although Congress has already tripled the number of Border Patrol agents since the late 1980s, more are still needed.

Richard Russo

I get and read an enormous number of first novels.

Robert Cailliau

To me, the biggest surprise is that Google still functions despite the explosion in the number of sites.

Roald Dahl

A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.

Robert Mueller

What we bring to the table is not only our 56 field offices in the United States and our number of resident agencies, but also we have 45 legal attaches overseas.

Richard Paul Evans

It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number.

Richard P. Feynman

Few people realize the number of things that are possible.

Richard J. Needham

When people are against profits they're against business; when they're against business, they're against employment; when they're against employment, it's not surprising that a large number of them are unemployed.

Richard Dawkins

I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human culture in its own right - either to criticize it (unfairly, given my original modest intention) or to carry it far beyond the limits of what I then thought justified. This was why I may have seemed to backtrack.

Russell Hoban

Them as counts counts moren them as dont count

Russell Brand

Today's 'Sesame Street' will NOT be brought to you by the number 34 or the letter D.

Ruben Hinojosa

We must not allow this generation to produce record numbers for the juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth, or foster care systems.

Ron Chernow

What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the universe. They're managing billions, yet they're subject to this quiet daily tyranny of numbers.

Trip Hawkins

I have a number of famous quotes, and one of them is, if you get knocked down, get back up again. I don't really feel like I want to let anything ultimately defeat me.

Travis Kalanick

There has to be a large number of people and routes that are lined up together. One part is liquidity and the other part is product - there's a lot that can go wrong.

Travis Barker

I want to beat the world record for the number of beats per second on a drum pad.