Richard Courant Quotes

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.

Richard Courant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: mathematician
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: January 8, 1888 - January 27, 1972

Topics

MathematicsPerfectionMindAesthetic

I can get along great with the Hispanics. In fact, I sure would like to meet them, even the politicians, maybe in the back room or whatever, have a couple of beers and try to explain. But they need to understand that I enforce the laws. I want to listen to them and hear their problems. I want them to tell me what their problems are.

Joe Arpaio

GreatMeProblemsBackI CanMeet

I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.

Jesse Eisenberg

GreatSchoolActingPlayOthers

I'm not deeply ideologically driven. I believe in good center-right politics.

John Key

GoodPoliticsBelieveI Believe

Everyone needs some time to themselves.

Anna Neagle

TimeEveryoneNeedsSomeThemselves

I was never a Lime Wire guy because it's too much hassle to find the song.

Trent Reznor

SongFindToo MuchNeverGuyLime

When people start talking about venture capital and finances and how to create this and do that, a lot of it, I swear, it's like sitting in an escrow meeting when all you want to do is buy a house, and you're signing 50 pieces of paper, but you have no idea what they're talking about.

Tony Hawk

PeopleStartTalkingYouHouseWant

I think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here in New York of that period; you have to build it all.

Martin Scorsese

New YorkThinkBudgetYouNewBuild

Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in 'Team of Rivals,' he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious.

Douglas Wilder

ChangeTeamNameBetterPortraitHe

The concept of disruption is about competitive response; it is not a theory of growth. It's adjacent to growth. But it's not about growth.

Clayton M. Christensen

GrowthDisruptionTheoryCompetitive

I know, as an overachiever straight-A student in school, I always responded to smart, strong, women represented on screen.

Allison Scagliotti

WomenSchoolSmartStrongStudent

I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.

Anne Lamott

LearnEnthusiasmDownQuietI Can

As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.

Maria Mitchell

PeopleYouKnowRuleGeneralThem

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