Quotes

I come from a little town of 7,000 people, and everyone in my family played football.

I like books. I read a lot, to be honest.

I had nightmares after being with the national team. You shouldn't have things like that.

The way I work, I always ask myself, 'What did go well this year, and what do we need to work on?' I always have a plan in my head.

I wish my national team all the best.

I never considered myself less worthy than a man in football. Never. Never, never, never.

Every player needs to use their voice to shake up things.

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.

Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.

The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.

That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.

Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.

Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, by means of what are commonly termed par excellence the exact sciences, may then, with the fair white wings of imagination, hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live.

I shall, in due time, be a Poet.

As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.

We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.

I am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase.

A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.

The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.

I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep my imagination from running wild, or to stop up the void which seems to be left in my mind from a want of excitement.

I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.