Kovalevskaya Quotes & Sayings

You try to get yourself into a situation where you only have to answer to yourself, where you can ask advice of people and work with your peers and mentors and things to try to do the best job that you can possibly do. — George Lucas

Often the thought of pain is actually worse that the pain itself. — Greg Behrendt

A beautiful thing is precious no matter the price — Alex Flinn

My first U.S. Open I think was just very special for me because that was sort of the beginning of what was a 'Cinderella' story for me. — Chris Evert

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination. — Sofia Kovalevskaya

What has being a girl to do with anything if a person in properly qualified?' ... 'It's what you call prejudice,' she said. — Ruth Park

It is better to be kind than be impolite. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing. — Sofia Kovalevskaya

I do indeed think that cinema is mortal. There is a lot of evidence already that it is dying on its feet. — Peter Greenaway

Pain, too, comes from depths that cannot be revealed. We do not know whether those depths are in ourselves or elsewhere, in a graveyard, in a scarcely dug grave, only recently inhabited by withered flesh. This truth, which is banal enough, unravels time and the face, holds up a mirror to me in which I cannot see myself without being overcome by a profound sadness that undermines one's whole being. The mirror has become the route through which my body reaches that state, in which it is crushed into the ground, digs a temporary grave, and allows itself to be drawn by the living roots that swarm beneath the stones. It is flattened beneath the weight of that immense sadness which few people have the privilege of knowing. So I avoid mirrors. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul. — Sofia Kovalevskaya

Obstinacy is perhaps the only human quality that matters at the end of the day, not only in the profession of the policeman but in many professions. At least in any that have something to do with the notion of truth. — Michel Houellebecq

Say what you know, do what you must, come what may. — Sofia Kovalevskaya