Small Numbers Quotes

Small Numbers Quote of the day

We are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.

A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.

We are always looking for a small number of very evil needles in a very large haystack, which is the city of London.

Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact.

One of our anxieties is de-focusing the relatively small number of engineers we have. Within our own core development, I am reluctant to fund projects that are way afield of where we are.

Small numbers make no difference to God. There is nothing small if God is in it.

Zero invites imagination, but small numbers invite questions about whether large numbers will ever materialize.

I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.

You are more likely to acquire power by narrowing your focus and applying your energies, like the sun's rays, to a limited range of activities in a small number of domains.

A small number of choice books are sufficient.

It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity.

Unfortunately, only a small number of patients with peptic ulcer are financially able to make a pet of an ulcer.

Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of geometry.

The control of large numbers is possible, and like unto that of small numbers, if we subdivide them.

My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation. Besides, your whole house doesn't get wrecked that way.

France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.

Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.

It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words, none of them extraordinary.

And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists.

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

I think fine dining is dying out everywhere... but I think there will be - and there has to always be - room for at least a small number of really fine, old-school fine-dining restaurants.

There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated.

Over a very small number of rolls of the dice, the uncertainty principle is very important.

We live in a country where a small number of people have incredible wealth and power. America has more income and wealth inequality than any other major country.

Hollywood is a cottage industry involving a very small number of people, and around the edges are enormous numbers of people trying to get into it and work.

Many of the best YC companies have had phenomenally small number of employees for their first year, sometimes none besides the founders.

... you want to be proud of how much you can get done with a small numbers of employees.

A very small number of non-Christians, including those with radical anti-Christian agendas, have been able to control and manipulate the civil politics of America with little or no opposition.

I will forever stick up for Catholics and Christians in general. With a small number of very horrible exceptions, they do play by the rules.

A small number of peasants - brave peasants - shot down two Apaches

Clearly, we were hoping to get some competitive proposals, but the reality is there are only a small number of firms that would be interested and have the wherewithal to bid.

I like being able to just turn the microscope on a small number of people, get to know them, drop into their lives for a period of time.

I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government.

I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability.

It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.

It's the function of a playwright to write. Some playwrights write a large number of plays, some write a small number.