Nasar Quotes & Sayings

A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius. — Sylvia Nasar

...his condition in Roanoke is a strong testament that lassitude, indifference and the peculiarities of his thought were primarily the consequences of his illness and not of the early attempts to treat it.

The popular view that anti-psychotics were chemical straight jackets that suppressed clear thinking and voluntary activity seems not to be borne out in Nash's case.

If anything, the only periods when he was relatively free of hallucinations, delusions and the erosion of will were the periods following either insulin treatment or the use of anti psychotics.

In other words, rather than reducing Nash to a zombie, medication seemed to reduce zombie like behavior. — Sylvia Nasar

I don't think it's fair to compare Dick Cheney to Vader - it's unfair to Vader. — Mark Hamill

I thought I could save a very worthwhile person. — Sylvia Nasar

On the morning that they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat bishop was coming on. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in. — Shia Labeouf

My approach to living with purpose has always been to create the life I want,
one conscious decision at a time. — Oprah Winfrey

I've published over 100 books - and that is divided about 50/50 adult and young adult. Lately, I have been writing more YA, which is such a great genre to write it. I don't have a favourite (I usually say it's the last book I've written), but certain books do stick in the mind. My very first YA novel, The Children of Lir, will always be special to me, and, of course The Alchemyst because it was a series I'd wanted to write for ages. — Michael Scott

Hopes of putting their sad history behind them was bound to be bittersweet. — Sylvia Nasar

RAND scientists tried to tell their wives that the decision whether to buy or not to buy a washing machine was an 'optimization problem'. — Sylvia Nasar

Great thinking is its own reward. — Mark Victor Hansen

How could you,' Mackey asked, 'how could you, a mathematician, a man devoted to reason and logical proof. . . how could you believe that extra terrestrials are sending you messages? How could you believe that you are being recruited by aliens from outer space to save the world? How could you . . .?' "Nash looked up at last and fixed Mackey with an unblinking stare as cool and dispassionate as that of any bird or snake. 'Because,' Nash said slowly in his soft, reasonable southern drawl, as if talking to himself,'the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriously. — Sylvia Nasar

Hey Nash! You scared?'
'Terrified,mortified,petrified...stupefied by you! — Sylvia Nasar

Fermat's assertion that if n is any whole number and p any prime, then n multiplied by itself p times minus n is divisible by p. — Sylvia Nasar

several studies have since shown that basic military training during peacetime can precipitate schizophrenia in men with a hitherto unsuspected vulnerability to the illness.15 — Sylvia Nasar

Woodrow Wilson, like most other educated Americans of his time, despised mathematics, complaining that "the natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be leaned by painful process of drill. — Sylvia Nasar

In Jack Nasar's research on American's taste in homes, only one group preferred the modernist house: architects. — Winifred Gallagher

I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logic or reasons can be found. — Sylvia Nasar

In The Dynamics of Creation, Anthony Storr, the British psychiatrist, contends that an individual who "fears love almost as much as he fears hatred" may turn to creative activity not only out of an impulse to experience aesthetic pleasure, or the delight of exercising an active mind, but also to defend himself against anxiety stimulated by conflicting demands for detachment and human contact.21 — Sylvia Nasar

Delusion is not just fantasy but compulsion. — Sylvia Nasar

The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.' — Mark Twain

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job. — Joan Baez

A profile, a look, a voice, can capture a heart in no time at all. — Sylvia Nasar

People look to the order of numbers when the world falls apart. — Sylvia Nasar

It is not the mere study of the Law, but to become eminent in the profession of it, which is to yield honor and profit. — George Washington

The ferocity of Santiago Nasar's fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not only with his death but also with the dismemberment of his body and its dispersion and extermination. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

You are all my reasons. — Sylvia Nasar

My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money. — Barbara Park

It was like a tornado, you want to hold on to everything you have, you don't want to let anything go. — Sylvia Nasar

My father once told me love is magic, sir. — Victoria Alexander

You want my dark side? Have I ever stolen anything? Not so much intentionally. But I don't think it's so much stealing as ... being a part of the flow of the universe. You know, where there's an exchange. It's positive. It's negative. There's an exchange of goods and services — Bill Murray