Positive Real Number

Famous quotes containing the words positive, real and/or number:

    “Nurturing competence, the food of self-esteem, comes from acknowledging and appreciating the positive contributions your children make. By catching our kids doing things right, we bring out the good that is already there.”
    —Stephanie Martson (20th century)

    “It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.”
    —Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)

    “Among a hundred windows shining
    dully in the vast side
    of greater-than-palace number such-and-such
    one burns
    these several years, each night
    as if the room within were aflame.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)