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

• Competition is good and has served us well.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Good
  • Competition
  • Well

• 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
  • Table
  • Ending

• 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

• I think touring is an important part of the life of an orchestra. Not only sharing with other audiences, but bringing that sense of family that you get back home. The sense of growing deeper into the music, of making it all sound like chamber music - that comes from being together on tour.

  

  Andris Nelsons
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.

  

  Arthur Hailey

• I have a pathological terror of falling through ice. I nearly drowned once. I fell off a boat and got a cramp, and was rescued by an oil-rig diver, a great bear of a man who simply leant into the water and scooped me out with one finger.

  

  Jeremy Clarkson
  • Great
  • Water
  • Boat

• Cartoons are the best stuff on TV. 'Wonder Showzen,' 'Aqua Teen,' 'SpongeBob,' and, of course, 'South Park' - one of the funniest shows ever made.

  

  Akiva Schaffer
  • Wonder
  • Teen

• A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Human Beings
  • Presumption
  • Arrogamce

• 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