Ellen Stofan Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
-
Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
-
If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
-
However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another.
-
A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
-
I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
-
I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
-
The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
-
Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
-
I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.
-
A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.
-
I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
-
A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
-
I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.
-
If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
-
Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
-
He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
-
The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion.
-
Most people have a concentration in particular areas; it might be politics, it might be science, it might be business, it might be sports. I care about all of those, and that's why I've chosen the formats I chose.
-
Why should we faint and fear to live alone,Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die?Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own,Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh.
-
But if the vision is strong enough, and your goals are steady, and you believe, pretty soon you bring other people with you.
-
Thou fill'st from the wingèd chalice of the soulThy lamp, O Memory, fire-wingèd to its goal.
-
Just remember: if ever you feel weighed down by the bureaucracy and often mundanity of modern life, don't fight the frustration. Let it be the catalyst for whimsy.
-
'The Martian' may be fiction, but at NASA, we are working to make it a reality.
