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

• 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
  • 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

• 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

• If I had criteria, it would just be that I want to play active people who can solve problems, not people who have things thrust in their lap and need somebody to solve their problems for them.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • People
  • Want
  • Problems

• For the robust, an error is information.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• That's been the dream since you were a little kid growing up. You want to be the guy playing in the Super Bowl. It's what you live for, really.

  

  Jimmy Garoppolo
  • Up
  • Live
  • Guy

• I'm Latin, for crying out loud - I can't hold anything back!

  

  Odette Annable
  • Back
  • Crying
  • Latin

• We all have different things that we go through in our everyday life, and it's really important to know just at the end of the day, it doesn't matter what you face, you know, that you're going to win at the end of the day. You got to believe in yourself. You got to believe in God, know that He's going to get you through it.

  

  Kelly Rowland Destiny's Child
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• I called their attention also to the absence of all means of ventilating the hall, remarking that, as we had already breathed the air which it contained for a full hour, it must have lost much of its vital properties and needed to be renewed.

  

  George Combe
  • Lost
  • Attention
  • Air

• 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