Thaning Quotes & Sayings

With everything I do, I just try to be myself. — Kevin Durant

Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours. — M.J. Rose

If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation. — Xenophon

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself. — Joyce Maynard

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes. — Gautama Buddha

It's specifically this Z = 2^(Aleph0) that he couldn't prove. Ever. Despite years of unimaginable doodling. Whether it's what unhinged him or not is an unanswerable question, but it is true that his inability to prove the C.H. caused Cantor pain for the rest of his life; he considered it his great failure. This too, in hindsight, is sad, because professional mathematicians now know exactly why G. Cantor could neither prove nor disprove the C.H. The reasons are deep and important and go corrosively to the root of axiomatic set theory's formal Consistency, in rather the same way that K. Godel's Incompleteness proofs deracinate all math as a formal system. Once again, the issues here can be only sketched or synopsized (although this time Godel is directly involved, so the whole thing is probably fleshed out in the Great Discoveries Series' Godel booklet). — David Foster Wallace

A sociopath is one who sees others as impersonal objects to be manipulated to fulfill their own narcissistic needs without any regard for the hurtful consequences of their selfish actions. — R. Alan Woods

The fight for you was all I've ever known. — T.J. Klune

What use is a good book ... if you cannot share your pleasure in it with another? — Manu Herbstein