Quantity Quotes - Page 17

• Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labourwhich its possessor will take in exchange for it.

  John Ruskin

  Giving, Cost, Produce

  John Ruskin (2016). “The Crown of Wild Olive”, p.190, John Ruskin

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• Upon looking back from the end of the last chapter and surveying the texture of what has been wrote, it is necessary, that upon this page and the five following, a good quantity of heterogeneous matter be inserted, to keep up that just balance betwixt wisdom and folly, without which a book would not hold together a single year.

  Laurence Sterne

  Funny, Book, Years

  Laurence Sterne (1834). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, in One Volume”, p.258

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• Evil can be got very easily and exists in quantity: the road to her is very smooth, and she lives near by. But between us and virtue the gods have placed the sweat of our brows; the road to her is long and steep, and it is rough at first; but when a man has reached the top, then she is easy to attain, although before she was hard.

  Hesiod

  Men, Sweat, Long

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• Any housing solution that involves paying for industrially produced building materials and commercial building contractors is doomed to certain failure. If houses are to be built at all, in sufficient quantity, they must be built without money. We must go right outside the framework of the money system, bypass the factories, and ignore the contractors.

  Hassan Fathy

  Money, Failure, House

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• Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next. Between two and three there is a jump. In the case of quantity, there is no such jump; and because jump is missing in the world of quantity, it is impossible for any quantity to be exact. You can have exactly three tomatoes. You can never have exactly three gallons of water. Always quantity is approximate.

  Gregory Bateson

  Mean, Two, Numbers

  "Number is Different from Quantity". CoEvolution Quarterly, www.oikos.org. Spring 1978.

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• In geometric and physical applications, it always turns out that a quantity is characterized not only by its tensor order, but also by symmetry.

  Hermann Weyl

  Order, Physics, Geometry

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• Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Too Much, Enough

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• If you paint a building shocking pink, that has no scale, it is just a huge mistake, but it's not in the scale of the city to have things like that. You know. So, not only because it's not appropriate, not only because it's offensive to the environment, I mean but among them also because that quantity of that color in the urban scale, is out of scale.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Mistake, Mean, Color

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Life is more important than art - quantity is only important in that the amount of activity is greater not the number of works.

  Patrick Swift

  Art, Numbers, Important

  Patrick Swift (1993). “PS -- of Course: Patrick Swift, 1927-1983”

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• I feel overawed by quantity where counting no longer makes sense. By unrepeatability within such a quantity. By creatures of nature gathered in herds, droves, species, in which each individual, while subservient to the mass, retains some distinguishing features. A crowd of people, birds, insects, or leaves is a mysterious assemblage of variants of certain prototype. A riddle of nature's abhorrence of exact repetition or inability to produce it. Just as the human hand cannot repeat its own gesture, I invoke this disturbing law, switching my own immobile herds into that rhythm.

  Magdalena Abakanowicz

  Hands, Law, People

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• All phenomena of which we are aware take place in our own minds, and therefore the only thing we have to look at is the mind; which is a more constant quantity over all the species of humanity than is generally supposed.

  Aleister Crowley

  Humanity, Mind, Looks

  Aleister Crowley (2014). “Eight Lectures on Yoga”, p.2, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The page of my notebook was filled with many messy integrals, but all of a sudden I saw emerge a formula for counting. I had begun to calculate a quantity on the assumption that the result was a real number, but found instead that, in certain units, all the possible answers would be integers. This meant that areas and volumes cannot take any value, but come in multiples of fixed units.

  Lee Smolin

  Notebook, Real, Numbers

  Lee Smolin (2008). “Three Roads To Quantum Gravity”, p.106, Hachette UK

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• The people of Tlön are taught that the act of counting modifies the amount counted, turning indefinites into definites. The fact that several persons counting the same quantity come to the same result is for the psychologists of Tlön an example of the association of ideas or of memorization.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Ideas, People, Example

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• The problem of dealing with the financial industry is being addressed today. You can measure it with interest rates coming down. You can measure it with the quantity of loans, and that sort of thing. The problem is, that nobody wants to take the loans. Once the banks are willing to give it, that's only half the problem.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Giving, Half, Want

  "Global Public Square" with Fareed Zakaria, globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com. November 2, 2008.

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• The Chinese do make vast quantities of wine for home consumption, but you wouldn't want to drink it yourself.

  Simon Hoggart

  Home, Wine, Chinese

  "Red Nose Day needs fewer celebrities and more mercenary task forces" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2013.

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• Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Athlete, Class, Training

  "Five minutes with Olympic gold medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee". Chicago Tribune Interview, www.chicagotribune.com. April 25, 2012.

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• The intelligence of an individual in not a fixed quantity.

  Alfred Binet

  Individual, Fixed

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• A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant.

  Chaim Potok

  Men, Quality, May

  Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• Where else is fatness at a premium? The answer is clear. There are two classes of mammals which are liable to accumulate large quantities of adipose tissue - hibernating mammals and aquatic mammals.

  Elaine Morgan

  Class, Two, Mammals

  Elaine Morgan (2011). “The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis”, p.69, Souvenir Press

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• The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity.

  Hugh Shelton

  Special, Important, Quality

  "America's New War: Responding to Terrorism". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. October 1, 2001.

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• Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Food, Healthy, Waste

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• In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Country, Animal, Intelligent

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• The laws of thermodynamics, as empirically determined, express the approximate and probable behavior of systems of a great number of particles, or, more precisely, they express the laws of mechanics for such systems as they appear to beings who have not the fineness of perception to enable them to appreciate quantities of the order of magnitude of those which relate to single particles, and who cannot repeat their experiments often enough to obtain any but the most probable results.

  J. Willard Gibbs

  Order, Law, Numbers

  "Elementary Principles in Statististical Mechanics". Book by J. Willard Gibbs (Preface, p. 8), 1902.

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• Given that there are seven billion people living on this earth, there is a consistent quantity of imbecile or idiot, okay. Previously, these people could express themselves only with their friends or at the bar after two or three glasses of something, and they said every silliness, and people laughed. Now they have the possibility to show up on the internet. And so, on the internet, along with the messages of a lot of interesting and important people - even the Pope is writing on Twitter - we have a great quantity of idiots.

  Umberto Eco

  Writing, Two, Glasses

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• Speculation in oil stock companies was another great evil ... From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price of oil. ... Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices. If enough oil was held, or if the production fell off, up went the price, only to be knocked down by the throwing of great quantities of stocks on the market.

  Ida Tarbell

  Men, Buying In, Oil

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