Quotes About Numbers

Have you heard this classic accounting joke? Question: What's the definition of an accountant? Answer: Someone who solves a problem you didn't know you had in a way you don't understand.

Until you can measure something and express it in numbers, you have only the begining of understanding.

Stop treating people like numbers. Is your only goal to attract numbers for popularity or attract people for engagement? Engage to grow your connections, not just to grow your numbers.

the Act authorized payments of "adoption bonuses" to states that increased numbers of adoptions over an established baseline to cure state deficits.

There was a group of fans who wanted autographs, and several women who managed to write their phone numbers on Wade's hand before he pulled free. Sam sent him an arched brow, but he just shrugged. He got numbers written on him a lot; he'd never figured out how to stop that from happening.

I have nightmares about hell, where all I do is add up numbers and try to have conversations with people like you.

Bob stared at me for a second and said, 'I have nightmares about Hell, where all I do is add up numbers and try to have conversations with people like you.

Pythagoras." "Pih-who?" "He invented triangles.

Algebra is simple.

Which teacher has the bigger influence? Where is more time available for change? Those two numbers—900 and 7,800—will appear over and over in this book.

God made the integers all else is the work of man.

Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmetic is the queen of mathematics

Uneven numbers are the gods' delight.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Numbers are essential, but not absolutely essential to strength. For many churches are numerically strong but lamentably weak spiritually. Numbers, then, are no display of spiritual power or strength.

Numbers are a key to the ancient views of cosmogony—in its broad sense, spiritually as well as physically considered and to the evolution of the present human race; all systems of religious mysticism are based upon numerals.

No doubt can exist that the ancient Egyptians were fully aware of the wondrous mysteries which numbers are able to disclose, so, considering that Greece, and neither Judea nor Babylon, succeeded to the empires of ancient Egypt, it is a curious fact how little knowledge of the dogmas of the Hierophants of Sais, Memphis and Thebes Greek literature has transmitted to us.

Lovers of small numbers go benignly potty, Believe all tales are thirteen chapters long, Have animal doubles, carry pentagrams, Are Millerites, Baconians, Flat-Earth-Men. Lovers of big numbers go horribly mad, would have the Swiss abolished, all of us Well-purged, somatotyped, baptised, taught baseball: They empty bars, spoil parties, run for Congress.

If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.

I'm real good with math, with numbers, like my dad was. I'm pretty much dialed in.

Dating is primarily a numbers game.... People usually go through a lot of people to find good relationships. That's just the way it is.

Nombres est écrit avant mai 1968, coïncidence improbable mais profonde.

Maybe we should go along, Shane said. Strength in numbers, man. Michael smiled at Eve and shook his head. After she bitch-slapped the Founder? Not a good idea.

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