Quotes About Proving Something

#1. I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isn't true.

Andy Rooney

#2. As a teacher, Tengo pounded into his students' heads how voraciously mathematics demanded logic. Here things that could not be proven had no meaning, but once you had succeeded in proving something, the world's riddles settled into the palm of your hand like a tender oyster.

Haruki Murakami

#3. I look forward to proving something to myself and others.

Eric Lindros

#4. This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something.

Richard P. Feynman

#5. The problem with proving something is that instead of leaving you alone people never stop giving you new things to prove, harder things.

Marlon James

#6. My mother was a strong-willed and opinionated woman - a Sicilian! - and if she didn't like something, she'd let you know about it. So her undying support of her kids went a long way in proving to us that we were on the right path.

Marlo Thomas

#7. American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.

Margaret Halsey

#8. There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.

Loretta Lynn

#9. Proving people wrong is probably my favorite thing to do.

Zooey Deschanel

#10. I see people who die a few minutes after a doctor tells them there is no hope of a cure. They give up and go. Others get angry and find joy in proving the doctor wrong. Something within them is challenged and hopeful. Hope is the divine motivator.

Bernie Siegel

#11. As a rule, she ate fairly healthily but all bets were off during times of stress. Proving the point, she'd just polished off an entire bag of pizza rolls by herself and was covered in crumbs and questioning her choices in life.

Jill Shalvis

#12. Our cause is much greater. And now,with you on board, it won't be long before we rule the Middleworld, the Lowerworld, and ultimately the Upperworld too. My dad's really gonna be proud of me then. His eyes blaze at the idea,proving once again,he's a psychopath.

Alyson Noel

#13. I just happened to have enough time to be able to take other parts between those first few Twilight films. But it wasn't about proving to people that I had something else to give.

Kristen Stewart

#14. Proving that profit is economically and morally justifiable, rather then the result of exploitation, has been a central preoccupation of neoclassical economists.

Jim Stanford

#15. No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong.

Robert Heller

#16. The only difference between elements and compounds consists in the supposed impossibility of proving the so-called elements to be compounds.

Wolfgang Ostwald

#17. I've always intended to eventually make films. I've always been very aware of tone and shots. But documentaries are a great proving ground for me.

George Ratliff

#18. It is not about proving anything to the world.
It is all about proving your capabilities to yourself and stretching your own boundaries.

Manoj Arora

#19. Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don't understand.

Josh Billings

#20. I had never even thought about doing something that I'd never done before or proving anything.

Harrison Ford

#21. I have a lot of confidence, but little Self-Esteem. This has given me a tremendous creative spark because it forced me to keep proving myself.

Neil Diamond

#22. I thought of my mother ( ... ). Freud wrote that no man is secure in the love of his mother can ever be a failure. Well, I had been busy proving that theory wrong.

Scott Spencer

#23. ...Most attackers aren't going to be dissuaded by a witty remark."

"That's profiling," said Mattheus. "Maybe they're Oscar Wilde fans."

"He did have great clothes."

"Proving that stereotypes can span centuries.

Amy Fecteau

#24. Making mistakes is the privilege of the active. It is always the mediocre people who are negative, who spend their time proving that they were not wrong.

Ingvar Kamprad

#25. I tend to enjoy proving people wrong.

Hayley Williams

#26. I loathe the kind of game-show context in which so much of our lives is determined: proving my memory and mental skills in a sedentary situation under the pressure of limited time.

Chuck Palahniuk

#27. I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.

Jonathan Mayhew

#28. If somebody's going to tell me I can't do something, I'll break every bone in my body proving them wrong.

Will Hobbs

#29. 'Fight Master' is a proving ground for young, aspiring fighters who want a chance to play on a bigger stage. That's something it has in common with 'The Ultimate Fighter,' which has always been like a farm league for the UFC, a place to develop new talent.

Randy Couture

#30. When you enter a mindset, you enter a new world. In one world
the world of fixed traits
success is about proving you're smart or talented. Validating yourself. In the other
the world of changing qualities
it's about stretching yourself to learn something new. Developing yourself.

Carol S. Dweck

#31. Something like 'Much Ado' happens, and even 'Avengers' happens because of the years of building connections and doing the work and proving yourself.

Joss Whedon

#32. Never tell her that something is impossible, because she'll kill herself proving you wrong.

Kate Lattey

#33. I love the fight. I don't - it's not a negative, it's a positive, and I love the challenge. There's that little part of me that I love proving someone wrong in that way when they have an image of me or something, or they think they have me figured out or they think I'm a certain way.

Tavis Smiley

#34. Make their hate your stepping stones towards achieving something greater. This will be the best revenge you can give - by proving to people that they are wrong about you, and that you are better than they could ever imagine.

Auliq Ice

#35. Being Tigerstar's son has meant I've had to win the trust of every ThunderClan cat over and over. So I know how frustrating it is when you have to prove something that shouldn't need proving.

Erin Hunter

#36. The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible. Exceptions only confirm this rule, proving that failure is occasioned by a too feeble faith.

Mary Baker Eddy

#37. At the entrance of this street, a Janissary was pinned to a wooden door by an eight-foot-long spear, which Jack looked on as proving that Yevgeny had passed by there recently.

Neal Stephenson

#38. Life is always a series of encounters that demand you prove your love.

Shannon L. Alder

#39. It is to us artisans and tradesmen that the salvation of the fatherland is entrusted; but we are not equal to such a task; never, indeed, have we claimed that we were capable of performing it. It is a misunderstanding; and it is proving our ruin.

Franz Kafka

#40. A peculiarity of the higher arithmetic is the great difficulty which has often been experienced in proving simple general theorems which had been suggested quite naturally by numerical evidence.

Harold Davenport

#41. I like to think I am confident and secure and mature enough to know Nick loves me without him constantly proving it. I don't need pathetic dancing monkey
scenarios to repeat to my friends, I am content with letting him be himself.
I don't know why women find that so hard.

Gillian Flynn

#42. In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.

Claude Bernard

#43. The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

Anne Sullivan

#44. I think I'm one of few American designers doing a house in Europe, and I think I've been proving myself there very well.

Jeremy Scott

#45. In a world in which the price of calculation continues to decrease rapidly, but the price of theorem proving continues to hold steady or increase, elementary economics indicates that we ought to spend a larger and larger fraction of our time on calculation.

John Tukey

#46. Thus proving that dreams that come true are not always the right dreams. Does wearing a glass slipper lead to a comfortable life? If everything you touch turns into marshmallows, won't that make things a bit ... sticky?

Terry Pratchett

#47. You don't have to prove yourself to me. You don't even have to prove yourself to you.

Susan Atkins

#48. Every time we prove a positive, we simultaneously prove an infinite number of negatives. Therefore, it is erroneous to declare that we can't prove a negative.

G.M. Jackson

#49. The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.

Calvin Harris

#50. Relationships are a proving ground for love.

Frederick Lenz

#51. I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.

Thomas A. Edison

#52. I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#53. To many, mathematics is a collection of theorems. For me, mathematics is a collection of examples; a theorem is a statement about a collection of examples and the purpose of proving theorems is to classify and explain the examples ...

John B. Conway

#54. Dear friend, I pray thee, if thou wouldst be proving Thy strong regard for me, Make me no vows. Lip-service is not loving; Let thy faith speak for thee ...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#55. When we spend a lifetime trying to distance ourselves from the parts of our lives that don't fit with who we think we're supposed to be, we stand outside of our story and hustle for our worthiness by constantly performing, perfecting, pleasing, and proving.

Brene Brown

#56. I think that Minnesota is different because we are proving that tri-partisan government could work, that you do not need to necessarily be a Democrat or a Republican to be successful at governing.

Jesse Ventura

#57. I'm a man who likes to take control, Cynda, but I don't object to proving I deserve to be in control of a woman's body.

Eden Connor

#58. The important thing isn't proving you can achieve a goal, but living every moment along the way, even the side trips

Lisa Wingate

#59. Without computers we will be stuck only proving theorems that have short proofs.

Kenneth Appel

#60. while it's five in the morning here, it's also five in the evening somewhere in China - proving that incompatible truths make perfect sense when seen with global perspective.

Neal Shusterman

#61. Then why?"
"Because you expect me to fail. You expect me to do wrong. To be reckless. To ruin myself."
"Why not work to prove me wrong?"
"But don't you see? I am proving you wrong. If I choose recklessness, where is the failure? If I choose it for myself, you cannot force it upon me.

Sarah MacLean

#62. He was a man's man, despite his vocation; after all, he studied American history. A litany of red-blooded patriots, fighting savages and redcoats alike, taming the wilderness, proving their worth with bulging sinews and roaring guns.

Jordan L. Hawk

#63. You own every piece of me, Cadence Taylor, and if you let me, I'll spend the rest of my life proving to you that you're the only thing left worth fighting for.

Melyssa Winchester

#64. Choosing a mate is not a matter of can they do the job, rather will they. A partner of "potential" doesn't make for a happy marriage. Their actions have to be in line with your needs.

Shannon L. Alder

#65. In performance, we have a greater purpose. The greater purpose is that we're communing together, and we want this moment to be really special for all of us. Because otherwise, why bother to have come at all? It's not about proving anything. It's about sharing something.

Yo-Yo Ma

#66. Not contradicting a point and proving it are different things.

Brandon Sanderson