Maharam Quotes & Sayings

Watch your thoughts, for they will become the words of people you draw to yourself. — Vironika Tugaleva

Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think. — James De La Vega

I remember one occasion when I tried to add a little seasoning to a review, but I wasn't allowed to. The paper was by Dorothy Maharam, and it was a perfectly sound contribution to abstract measure theory. The domains of the underlying measures were not sets but elements of more general Boolean algebras, and their range consisted not of positive numbers but of certain abstract equivalence classes. My proposed first sentence was: "The author discusses valueless measures in pointless spaces." — Paul Halmos

Give me 10 high school pitchers, let me spend a week with them, and I'll show you 10 pitchers who won't balk. It's not that difficult, and they better learn it. — Doug Harvey

I would once again be an outsider, my nose pressed against the glass, watching the ball with no ticket to attend. — Alessandra Torre

Be honest and don't pretend you're not falling truly, madly, and deeply for this guy. Denial will get you in trouble. — David Levithan

To claim that one can be happy without being free is to prove that one has no idea what happiness means. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

The greatest wealth of this nation is not only the mergers of giant corporations or the possibility of further globalization of the infrastructure of the world. In the United States, our greatest single source of wealth is the minds and talent of our young people. Not to use it is stupid - to waste it is a crime. — Isaac Stern

If you try to make such projects, unseen by others, as perfect as any human could, you'll develop skills that other professionals don't have. — Steve Wozniak

Hands are our earliest tools. Cooking starts with the hands which are so sensitive that when they touch something they transmit messages to your brain about texture and temperature. — James Beard

Part of it may be that translators are paid by the word, so the more carefully they work on a translation, the less they are paid for their time, which means that if they are very careful they may not earn much. And often, the more interesting or unusual the book, the more painstaking they have to be. For one or two difficult books, I took so long over each page that I earned less than a dollar an hour. But I'm not sure this explains why so many people do not respect translators or would simply prefer not to think about them. — Lydia Davis

You know, you only get to live life once, so there are two things that that yields. One is that there's no point in crying over spilt milk, but secondly you hate wasting time, energy, and whatever talent you've got. — David Miliband

I found myself in my first art school under the direction of Robert Henri ... My life began at this point. — George Bellows