Quotes About Point

You cannot determine the slope of a line given only one point, as there is no line to begin with. A single point in time does not show trends, improvement, lack of effort, or mathematical ability….

Performance cannot be based on one assessment. You cannot determine the slope of a line given only one point, as there is no line to begin with. A single point in time does not show trends, improvement, lack of effort, or mathematical ability….

I see you're determined to miss my point." "If you're point is that there was a pretty girl in the room and it was distracting you, then I think I've taken your point handily." "You think she's pretty?" Will was surprised; Jem rarely opinioned this sort of thing. "Yes, and you do too." "I hadn't noticed, really." "Yes, you have, and I've noticed you noticing.

When the hammer strikes a nail, the extreme force of the blow on the broad head is transmitted without loss to the point. The head of the nail is the whole of eternity and the point of that nail is pressed to the center of the human heart. " [ quoting Simone Weil from memory ]

It is precisely resemblance that reconciles habit and novelty, balancing them out, fusing them at some indefinite point, acting as their horizon line.

Speeches are like steer horns - a point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between.

My novels point out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.

I tried acupuncture. But I didn't really get the point.

She had an insult waiting for Summerset, who she knew would comment about her being home early. She'd say it was Mortician's Day, and she'd taken off in his honor. Quick and to the point.

You've played the games. You're a competitive soul." "What's the point of playing if winning isn't the goal?

Nash was a purist. Steve's a Hall of Fame point guard. He was unbelievably good.

We have now reached a turning point in the struggle between freedom and terror.

If international law is, in some ways, at the vanishing point of law, the law of war is, perhaps even more conspicuously, at the vanishing point of international law.

All numbers are multiples of one, all sciences converge to a common point, all wisdom comes out of one center, and the number of wisdom is one.

Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline.

A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.

you made a point of hanging out exclusively with people who had the wit to see and to understand that objective reality, you didn't have to waste a lot of time talking.

He thinks that there has been some routine polite conversation along the way, but there is never any point in actually monitoring that kind of thing.

Twinkling happens when the light from a distant point travels through that atmosphere; its light beam dances ever so slightly in random directions many times—sometimes thousands of times—each second.

Parts of Mars' surface is very close to the triple point of water, when it can be solid, liquid, and steam at the same time.

Buck next brought up the subject of the

I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.

Most of my work has no conventional narrative, so it's not essential to have a beginning and an end - your attention can flow in and out of the experience rather than having a set entry point.

appears to have produced substantial tax revenue.26 One St. Petersburg city council member fumed that the scheme utilized "secret service methods" to extract payments.27 True: that was the point.