William Thurston Quotes

#1. No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to flee and fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.

Jesse Jackson

#2. When I was going to school in, like, '84 to '88, you didn't have cell phones. There was no e-mail, if you can wrap your brain around that.

Tina Fey

#3. The only thing you have to watch out for is other people who feel threatened by your party.

RuPaul

#4. Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs.

William Thurston

#5. The product of mathematics is clarity and understanding. Not theorems, by themselves ... In short, mathematics only exists in a living community of mathematicians that spreads understanding and breathes life into ideas both old and new.

William Thurston

#6. Animals can always read your vibration, and if you are intent on empowering your life, they will often gift you by making special melodies of sound to balance your chakras and tune up your body.

Barbara Marciniak

#7. After you are gone, people may forget most of what you have said and done. But they will remember that you loved them.

Steve Goodier

#8. Math is really about the human mind, about how people can think effectively, and why curiosity is quite a good guide.

William Thurston

#9. The year you win an Oscar is the fastest year in a Hollywood actor's life. Twelve months later they ask, 'Who won the Oscar last year?'

Cliff Robertson

#10. To all the worryworts out there who said super PACs were going to lead to a cabal of billionaires secretly buying democracy: wrong! They are publicly buying democracy.

Stephen Colbert

#11. Mathematics is an art of human understanding.

William Thurston

#12. Well, I found I am my own best company. I don't annoy myself and I always have something important I want to hear myself say.

Ashlan Thomas

#13. Miss Marple made a ladylike noise of vexation like a cat sneezing to indicate profound disgust.

Agatha Christie

#14. I am Tina Yothers and I'll never be anyone different.

Tina Yothers

#15. Experience has shown repeatedly that a mathematical theory with a rich internal structure generally turns out to have significant implications for the understanding of the real world, often in ways no one could have envisioned before the theory was developed.

William Thurston

#16. You don't see what you're seeing until you see it but when you do see it, it lets you see many other things.

William Thurston

#17. As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other ideas from other contexts, so as to develop a sense of the structure, not just familiarity with a particular tour through the structure.

William Thurston

#18. Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we did it before, Each time is a new journey with no maps.

Natalie Goldberg

#19. The real satisfaction from mathematics is in learning from others and sharing with others.

William Thurston

#20. She'd hardly known where she was going while the gloriella tore through her; all she'd known was that she had to get someplace safe. And somehow, she had wound up exactly where she knew she'd be safest.

Sarah J. Maas

#21. Primaries are the place where you see whose message is connecting with the largest number of people.

Mitt Romney