Mental Arithmetic Quotes

#1. The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.

Howard Aiken

#2. That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#3. I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any given moment, we might improve, or at least disguise or present our defects and screw-ups in either more charming or more intimidating ways.

Anne Lamott

#4. I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.

Natalie Coughlin

#5. I just sort of slid into it, like you'd go for a walk in the woods and fall into a crevasse and wind up in a cave full of rubies and emeralds.

Garrison Keillor

#6. Did a swift burst of mental arithmetic, arrived at an answer he liked and

Douglas Adams

#7. ROSE: I think I've spent too much time around Dave.
ROSE: I've also probably spent too much time sharing his genes.

Andrew Hussie

#8. I don't really use Facebook, because I find it a bit intrusive on your personal life.

Tom Odell

#9. Father, we ask that you give us a passion for the truth and not merely a hatred of falsehood. Keep us concerned for the spiritual health of people but open to your own rebukes from your mighty Word.

Max Anders

#10. Imagine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously, as if you were working out mental arithmetic. Just look at it, touch it, smell it, listen to it, turn yourself into it. When you do this, the words look after themselves, like magic.

Ted Hughes

#11. Bill Frindall has done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator

John Arlott

#12. It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.

Cy Twombly

#13. Touch'd either the Passions of Rage or Grief to a Miracle.

Barton Booth

#14. The person I liked the best was Gerald R. Ford. He was the most decent man in politics I ever had any relationships with.

Alan Greenspan