#indefinable

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

The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones. ↗

— Nick Lowe

#cross #full #good #good ones #great

For all of my life I'd been extremely healthy. I'd never had any health issues, so to go from being perfectly healthy to having this very rare disease was scary. In a lot of people it is very severe. Some people go blind, you can have neuro-lesions which affect your brain, so I was very nervous. ↗

— Sanya Richards-Ross

#going #i #indefensible #indefinable #manner

I feel as healthy as I've ever felt. ↗

— Sanya Richards-Ross

#going #i #indefensible #indefinable #manner

The Oxford manner is, alas, indefinable; I was going to say indefensible. ↗

— Robert Baldwin Ross

#going #i #indefensible #indefinable #manner

A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse. ↗

— Sanya Richards-Ross

#going #i #indefensible #indefinable #manner

I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#belief #believer #causes #faith #i

What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures but that in an indefinable way they will come away feeling better human beings. And that is exactly what Van Gogh hoped for. ↗

— John Russell

#beautiful #beings #better #come #exactly

There is something in the Olympics, indefinable, springing from the soul, that must be preserved. ↗

— Chris Brasher

#must #olympics #preserved #something #soul

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait. ↗

— Countee Cullen

#call #except #getting #hard #hard work