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I look at my contemporaries, and we're all at different stages and levels, and all choosing different routes, different ways to do things. ↗

— Jamie Bell

#contemporaries #different #different ways #i #levels

We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it. ↗

— Clive Bell

#feeling #means #other #our #recognising

We're not perfect, but we want to do the right thing. ↗

— Charlie Bell

#not perfect #perfect #right #right thing #the right thing

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#art #creative #feeling #fitness #generality

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#ever #hated #i #imperfectly #machine

If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#experience #game #indeed #making #marks

Sometimes the best and worst times of your life can coincide. It is a talent of the soul to discover the joy in pain—-thinking of moments you long for, and knowing you’ll never have them again. The beautiful ghosts of our past haunt us and yet we still can’t decide if the pain they caused us out weighs the tender moments when they touched our soul. This is the irony of love. (MU Article, 2010) ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#bad-choices #decisions #family #friendship #hindsight

You cannot run away from the truth because truth will find you. ↗

— ColoZeus Benz

#love-peace #running-away-from-problems #truth #truth-of-life #love

A conductor can do wild things which can feel forced, but if you're directing from within the orchestra, you can't do that, things have to feel natural. ↗

— Joshua Bell

#directing #feel #forced #natural #orchestra

I love the outdoor festival feeling. ↗

— Joshua Bell

#festival #i #i love #love #outdoor