Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
AGNES DENESMost wonderful things are unconscious.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they’re locked into their little specializations.
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Maybe that’s why I was left out of a lot of things, or why my work was not really understood, because there was no precedent for it.
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Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet. It’s difficult.
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There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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And combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature. That’s why my forests are mathematical expansion systems, all of them.
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I wish I didn’t have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.
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