Top 100 Benoit Quotes
#1. I am really close friends with Roger Federer and also with Benoit Paire.
Stanislas Wawrinka
#2. And Chris Benoit, as magnificent as he looks, is not medically cleared yet.
Ric Flair
#3. I like to think of myself as the Chris Benoit of the movie industry, capable of taking any picture and carrying it to box-office success. Take Garden State, without me that would have just been two hours of Portman doging.
Zach Braff
#4. I, Scarlet Benoit, do hereby claim you, Ze'ev Kesley, as my husband and my Alpha. Forevermore, you will be my mate, my star, my beginning of everything. You are the one. You have always been, and you will always be, the only one. Wolf
Marissa Meyer
#5. Adonis Benoit. What were his parents smoking when they named him? Talk about overly conceited. It was no wonder he had a penchant for megalomania.
Em Wolf
#6. of the air-conditioned Faulk Street Tavern. It's there that high school teacher Meredith Benoit finds him. Due to a silly prank, her job and her reputation are in jeopardy. She needs a lawyer, fast. But the Magic
Judith Arnold
#7. After an earthquake in Los Angeles - The earth in LA moved more in one hour than Benoit Benjamin did all last season with the Clippers.
Peter Vecsey
#8. You're the only one, Scarlet Benoit. You'll always be the only one.
Marissa Meyer
#9. My dream match is me and Chris Benoit against Fit Finlay and William Regal. That way I get to work with Benoit and I get to beat up and get beat up by Finlay and Regal.
CM Punk
#10. It is extraordinary Monsieur Benoit, but everytime I think of your triple character as a landlord, a bootmaker, and a friend, I am tempted to believe in the Trinity.
Henri Murger
#11. What seemed to make Benoit and Guerrero great was the fact that they weren't given an easy path to stardom. They were both hired by WCW when, during the Monday Night Wars, WCW expanded its flagship show to three hours and needed talent to fill the time.
David Shoemaker
#12. A guy like Benoit, he's really good and a lot like Dynamite. Dynamite, just because he was the original, was the best. But, you know, Benoit now is by far better. Dynamite Kid is nothing now.
Owen Hart
#13. Love yourself, for who and what you are; protect your dream and develop your talent to the fullest extent.
Joan Benoit
#14. A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#15. The textbooks are dumbed down to the where your kid sister could probably read them, and the teacher go over and over and over the same stuff anyway, drilling it into your head so that they can ask you one hundred multiple-choice questions to get it all back out of you again.
Charles Benoit
#16. The challenge and the energy running requires may be a selfish one, but it actually motivates me to be stronger in my relationships.
Joan Benoit
#17. Victoria glares at him. 'It doesn't mean anything if you don't mean it.'
Zach smiles. 'My dear, I never mean it.
Charles Benoit
#18. Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#19. As every runner knows, running is about more than just putting one foot in front of the other; it is about our lifestyle and who we are.
Joan Benoit Samuelson
#20. I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#21. In this profession mistakes are all a part of it. If you write something flawlessly you've done something wrong.
Eric T. Benoit
#22. My life has been extremely complicated. Not by choice at the beginning at all, but later on, I had become used to complication and went on accepting things that other people would have found too difficult to accept.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#23. If you thought about it you'd realize that you don't have control over everything, but you control how you react
Charles Benoit
#24. Why couldn't she listen to him just once? Would it be that much of an insult to her feminist ancestors?
Em Wolf
#25. I go into a meditative state but I don't follow a path that people who meditate take, like sitting in a room and getting quiet. It is when I swim that I meditate.
Benoit Lecomte
#26. For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#27. I didn't want to become a pure mathematician, as a matter of fact, my uncle was one, so I knew what the pure mathematician was and I did not want to be a pure - I wanted to do something different.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#28. Where did this guy come from? It's like he's saying exactly what my heart needs to hear.
J.E. Benoit
#29. Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#30. If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#31. If you feel like eating, eat. Let your body tell you what it wants.
Joan Benoit
#32. If you look at a shape like a straight line, what's remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by, from far away, it is the same; it is a straight line.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#33. The theory of chaos and theory of fractals are separate, but have very strong intersections. That is one part of chaos theory is geometrically expressed by fractal shapes.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#34. Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find new ideas. That was the case long ago in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in later periods, but then mathematicians had become very abstract.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#35. Without the dream, there can be no awakening.
Tanya Benoit
#36. The straight line has a property of self-similarity. Each piece of the straight line is the same as the whole line when used to a big or small extent.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#37. After I finished the Atlantic swim I said "never again," but it didn't take long for me to change my mind. I like to push my limits. I want to raise money for cancer research and to inspire others to follow their dreams.
Benoit Lecomte
#38. Words are one of the most powerful things given to human beings. In the hands of artists who can use them properly they are like weapons of mass construction.
Eric T. Benoit
#39. Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#40. Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#41. Too often, an event's importance is not recognized until it is too late for proper recording.
Benoit B. Mandelbrot
#42. He didn't believe in keeping leashes on pussy and expected the same courtesy in return. That was then. This was now.
Em Wolf
#43. Love is endless, you can never run out no matter how much of it you give away.
Eric T. Benoit
#44. Adonis watched her strut away, friend in tow, like a peacock with a stick wedged up its ass. Tessandra Scarlatti. He'd hoped in his absence, she'd fallen off the planet or died. Preferably both.
Em Wolf
#45. Confidence is a belief in myself and my ability. I built my confidence through hard training. I believed there was no one out there working any harder than me.
Joan Benoit
#47. Everything is roughness, except for the circles. How many circles are there in nature? Very, very few. The straight lines. Very shapes are very, very smooth. But geometry had laid them aside because they were too complicated.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#48. For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#50. Ms. Casey is standing in front of the class explaining how she worked all weekend to get the tests graded so she could hand them back on Monday morning, and you're wondering if you're supposed to be impressed that she did her job.
Charles Benoit
#51. The most important thing I have done is to combine something esoteric with a practical issue that affects many people.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#52. I found myself in the position of that child in a story who noticed a bit of string and - out of curiosity - pulled on it to discover that it was just the tip of a very long and increasingly thick string...and kept bringing out wonders beyond reckoning
Benoit B. Mandelbrot
#53. My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#54. Careful Cam, your vagina is showing.
Em Wolf
#55. You're surprised at all the blood.
He looks over at you, eyes wide, mouth dropping open, his face almost as white as his shirt.
He's surprised, too.
Charles Benoit
#56. If your business does not perform offline, it won't perform online.
Benoit Gaillard
#57. France has and will have political and economic problems like any other country. But it works. What makes it work is the harmony between the spirit of the French and the structures they have given themselves, structures that are genuinely theirs.
Jean-Benoit Nadeau
#58. The beauty of what I happened by extraordinary chance to put together is that nobody would have believed that this is possible, and certainly I didn't expect that it was possible. I just moved from step to step to step.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#59. The teachers complain that the students today are all lazy, ignorant, and stupid. But the truth is that you're smarter than they are. You're not even old enough to drive and you already know that none of this matters.
Charles Benoit
#60. I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway.
Joan Benoit
#61. I had many books and I had dreams of all kinds. Dreams in which were in a certain sense, how to say, easy to make because the near future was always extremely threatening.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#62. Keep varying the program. Your body will tell you what to do.
Joan Benoit
#63. My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back, I see a pattern.
Benoit B. Mandelbrot
#64. Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#65. I spent half my life, roughly speaking, doing the study of nature in many aspects and half of my life studying completely artificial shapes. And the two are extraordinarily close; in one way both are fractal.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#67. IF ANYONE EVER TOLD YOU THAT YOU WERE ANYTHING LESS THAN WONDERFUL...THEY LIED. THE PROBLEM NOW IS THAT AT SOME TIME IN THE PAST, YOU SWALLOWED AND BELIEVED THOSE LIES AND YOU ARE NOW LIVING THEM OUT IN THE FORM OF YOUR CURRENT PROBLEMS.
Luke Benoit
#68. When I first started running, I was so embarrassed I'd walk when cars passed me. I'd pretend I was looking at the flowers!
Joan Benoit
#69. Some mathematicians didn't even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#70. I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#71. You can't depend on other people, you have to run your own race.
Joan Benoit
#72. Years ago, women sat in the kitchen drinking coffee and discussing life. Now they discuss the same topics while they run.
Joan Benoit
#73. Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#74. For a thinking person, the most serious mental illness is not being sure of who you are.
Benoit B. Mandelbrot
#75. If there was something that all the time had in common, what your English teacher would call a "theme," it would be this: Don't get caught.
Charles Benoit
#76. Both chaos theory and fractal have had contacts in the past when they are both impossible to develop and in a certain sense not ready to be developed.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#77. Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#78. Self-similarity is a dull subject because you are used to very familiar shapes. But that is not the case. Now many shapes which are self-similar again, the same seen from close by and far away, and which are far from being straight or plane or solid.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#79. The job of a writer is not to convey emotion but to invoke it.
Eric T. Benoit
#81. Winning is neither everything nor the only thing. It is one of many things.
Joan Benoit
#82. If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).
Benoit Mandelbrot
#83. There will always be something to strive for. My hope is for the heart to strive forever.
Joan Benoit
#84. Why the hell did she have to look like a centerfold piece for Maxim magazine? Who was she trying to impress? She already had him: hook, line, and sinker.
Em Wolf
#85. Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#86. The worst that could happen is you two get into a fist fight, in which I will referee but secretly be in your corner.
Oh really?
Really. I'll even rub Vaseline on your face when he isn't looking.
What would I do without you?
You'll never know.
Em Wolf
#87. The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool, while tricky, is extraordinarily powerful and convenient.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#88. I spent my time very nicely in many ways, but not fully satisfactory. Then I became Professor in France, but realized that I was not - for the job that I should spend my life in.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#89. Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#90. In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#91. I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#92. A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#94. Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#95. Every time I fail I assume I will be a stronger person for it.
Joan Benoit
#96. The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set ... is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as 'chaos'.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#97. Humanity has known for a long time what fractals are. It is a very strange situation in which an idea which each time I look at all documents have deeper and deeper roots, never (how to say it), jelled.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#98. It was astonishing when at one point, I got the idea of how to make artifical clouds with a collaborator, we had pictures made which were theoretically completely artificial pictures based upon that one very simple idea. And this picture everybody views as being clouds.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#99. Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#100. If one takes the kinds of risks which I took, which are colossal, but taking risks, I was rewarded by being able to contribute in a very substantial fashion to a variety of fields. I was able to reawaken and solve some very old problems.
Benoit Mandelbrot
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