Donna J. Nelson Quotes

I say that, you know, it's a lifetime goal trying to teach organic chemistry, to make it easy, and I'm starting to wonder if I'm ever going to achieve it in my lifetime.

Donna J. Nelson

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• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Life
  • Need

• It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Will

• Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Real
  • Education
  • Understanding

• There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Man
  • Greed

• I made the cover of 'Sports Illustrated,' 'Newsweek' and 'Time' all in one week, and I didn't even know what that meant.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Time
  • Sports
  • Week

• We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Age
  • Old
  • Youth

• One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Creative

• In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Culture
  • Kind
  • Now

• Growing up on a family farm, I know firsthand the challenges of running a small business... challenges that only seem to be growing for today's entrepreneurs.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Up
  • Family
  • Business

• Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Country
  • Done

• I've played a lot of bad guys, and I'm pretty good at leaving my work at the office. And I look at acting as having a certain sort of therapeutic nature to it.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Good
  • Work
  • Bad

• I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.

  

  Jesse Owens
  • Up
  • Time
  • Air

• It's good for Brazilian football to have idols, stars, big stars coming back to Brazilian clubs. The tournaments become much better, more interesting. Ze Roberto, Juninho Pernambucano, Ronaldinho Gaucho, and other players who have returned to Brazil strengthen the league and improve the tournaments.

  

  Neymar
  • Good
  • Interesting
  • Football

• Entrepreneurship is a muscle, and winning is an endurance game.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Game
  • Winning
  • Endurance

• Audiences can be very judgmental.

  

  Clive Owen
  • To Be
  • Audiences
  • Judgmental

• Dad would always play Ray Charles in the car on the way to swimming, then we'd sing musicals. Now my heroes are Janis Joplin and Bonnie Raitt and Max Richter.

  

  Jessie Buckley
  • Dad
  • Car
  • Swimming

• I love all sports! I'm always impressed by athletes. I also love watching the Olympic Games. In high school, I played co-ed soccer and basketball. I really enjoyed both of those sports, but I have to admit basketball wasn't my calling.

  

  Olga Fonda
  • School
  • Watching
  • Calling

• God never made a promise that was too good to be true.

  

  Dwight L. Moody
  • Good
  • God
  • True

• Effective collaboration is about maximizing time, talent and tools to create value. The old way was the pass-along approach. I do my job and then pass along my work product to you. You do your piece of it and pass it along to somebody else.

  

  Evan Rosen
  • Collaboration
  • Product
  • Tools

• What's interesting about the transportation market is that you're often dabbling in multiple categories. The same person who might own a car is still using Uber, is still using a taxi, still might go to Avis on a business trip and rent a car.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • Business
  • Interesting
  • Car

• You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere.

  

  Dave Blood
  • Trying
  • Energy
  • Control

• I say that, you know, it's a lifetime goal trying to teach organic chemistry, to make it easy, and I'm starting to wonder if I'm ever going to achieve it in my lifetime.

  

  Donna J. Nelson
  • Trying
  • Going
  • Lifetime