John Charles Polanyi Quotes

In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons.

John Charles Polanyi

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• I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Free
  • Fear
  • Action

• I know there are a lot of people out there who have the best intentions but not the voice, so it's about people like me to give them a voice and hear their ideas.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Best
  • Ideas

• At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • Time
  • Live

• There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Kind
  • Thought
  • Story

• My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Moment
  • Memorable
  • Boston

• It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Work
  • Children

• It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • You
  • Answer
  • Call

• I graduated from the University of Whatever.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • University
  • Graduation

• I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Beautiful
  • Man
  • Faith

• There must be a thread in everything I choose to take on, and I can't say it's a calculated thread, but I think you end up doing the work that's resonating with you.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Up
  • Work
  • Think

• I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Career
  • While
  • Chose

• We're going to do something that's really unprecedented in the industry by launching the console in all three major markets for the same holiday. It's never been done before.

  

  J Allard
  • Done
  • Holiday
  • Three

• America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Power
  • America
  • Dog

• A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Thought
  • Patience
  • Year

• I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Work
  • Home
  • Society

• As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • World
  • Man
  • Wish

• A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Great
  • Soul
  • Small

• Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Knowledge
  • Problem
  • Lack

• I've written tons of scripts, and when I wrote 'The New Girl in Town,' I read it to my parents, and they suggested I make a movie out of it. I got a few friends together, and I shot the movie in one weekend, and then my mom and I edited it.

  

  Emma Kenney
  • Friends
  • Together
  • Movie

• What is important to me is there has been consensus and clarity, (and) much better coordination. We'll be much quicker to control avian influenza as a result.

  

  David Nabarro
  • Important
  • Clarity
  • Consensus

• Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, really honestly, too afraid to try - which I think is pretty common for people who are trying to write a large piece of fiction.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • People
  • Trying
  • Book

• I have been very lucky, and I think it all goes back to state subsidy for the arts. I gained my training and confidence and credentials in the not-for-profit world, and in England, that does not mean on the fringe of things. It means right at the centre.

  

  Phyllida Lloyd
  • World
  • Confidence
  • Training

• I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

  

  Chris Evans
  • World
  • Peace
  • Explore

• In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons.

  

  John Charles Polanyi