Elements Quotes - Page 17

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

The standard "foundation" for mathematics starts with sets and their elements. It is possible to start differently, by axiomatising not elements of sets but functions between sets. This can be done by using the language of categories and universal constructions.

Obsession and repetition in the process of making things is one constant element in my work.

If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect.

Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive form of taxation.

This is the Bond of the new millennium. Everything is updated, from the action sequences to the interaction between the characters. All the elements reflect changes that have occurred in the world in recent years.

We have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice.

Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;--to love Him in others' virtues.

Compassion is an essential element of love.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

The element of harmony is super important.

Polyphonic painting is superior to music in that there, the time element becomes a spatial element. The notion of simultaneity stands out even more richly.

Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God.

I'm unable to really write the kind of song that doesn't have a visual element, which most songs don't.

Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble.

Choice impacts virtually every element of our life.

I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own.

Woman is also the element of conflict.

Woman! woman! What a disturbing element you are in the universe - man's universe!

There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern.

Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.

Wahhabism goes and takes elements from the Islamic tradition that are most oppressive of women, and highlights and enlarges them and makes them the whole of Islam. In my view, that's a clear corruption of the Islamic tradition.

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places.