Frederik Pohl Quotes

All of them had been so tested and retested that they had acquired considerable skill in answering test questions the way the examiners wanted them answered.

Frederik Pohl

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• I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • Work
  • Never
  • Everything

• The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Different
  • Dinner
  • Debate

• I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Years
  • Three
  • Europe

• I remember as a kid watching one of the Olympic games, and I was cheering for a big track athlete. He was the favorite to win, and he lost. I realized in that moment the pain he felt was so much greater than the pain that those who never thought they were going to win would have felt had they lost.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Remember
  • Lost
  • Pain

• I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • World
  • Think
  • Childhood

• I was terrified of getting the chemo. It's not pleasant. And the radiation is not pleasant.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Getting
  • Pleasant
  • Radiation

• You'd be surprised how self-conscious a lot of women are. That's something I've witnessed firsthand.

  

  Zendaya
  • Women
  • You
  • How

• Atoms of Element 118 fill an outer shell with electrons, creating a special type of element called a noble gas. Noble gases are natural turning points on the table, ending one row and pointing to the next.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Special
  • Ending
  • Table

• To act: that is what the writer would like to be able to do, above all. To act, rather than to bear witness. To write, imagine, and dream in such a way that his words and inventions and dreams will have an impact upon reality, will change people's minds and hearts, will prepare the way for a better world.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Dad

• If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Future
  • Serious
  • Child

• I'm still learning a lot as a songwriter. I try to write down and make a note of ideas that I cross paths with on a day-to-day basis, whether it be a conversation or something I hear on the radio, seeing a movie, or just thoughts in my head as I'm walking down the street.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Movie
  • Learning
  • Thoughts

• In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Up
  • Education
  • Day

• After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Career
  • Years
  • Chicago

• If I sleep in and don't run, I'll feel a little bit off because I didn't do what I was supposed to do. But I'm not going to beat myself up because of it. I'll just get right back on track.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Sleep

• I read my sister's diary when I was 7. She was, I think, 13. It was awful to read it.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • She
  • Think
  • Sister

• I've always said about awards that they're meaningless until you win one, and then they're best thing in the world. The other thing about awards is that they engender respect from areas where it might never have come from without it.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • World
  • Respect
  • Best

• Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know how the rest of the world laughs at you guys? Have you got any idea? They're just rocking with laughter night and day.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • World
  • America
  • Night

• When I did 'Rocky Horror,' I didn't want to meet the audience afterward, because they'd been having a good time yelling names at me all night, and I didn't really want to tell them that I didn't have such a good time being yelled at all night.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Time
  • Good
  • Night

• I used to love hand raising.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Hand
  • Hands
  • Used

• For the Sanders supporters, there's a thought that the people who are well off are doing really great, and the system is systematically unfair, and that's a very deeply felt and serious objection to the current situation.

  

  Cass Sunstein
  • People
  • Serious
  • Unfair

• Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics.

  

  Dave Eggers
  • Beautiful

• I believe that we're only as strong as our neighbor is, and the idea that, I'm my brother's keeper works for me.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Believe
  • Strong
  • Brother

• All of them had been so tested and retested that they had acquired considerable skill in answering test questions the way the examiners wanted them answered.

  

  Frederik Pohl