John Charles Polanyi Quotes

It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.

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• Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Action

• A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Writing
  • Women
  • May

• Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Why
  • Want
  • Know

• Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Culture
  • Drama
  • Painting

• With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • You
  • Expect
  • Ladder

• Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Hand
  • Commitment
  • Go

• If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Complain

• I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Dress

• We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Time
  • Just
  • Most

• Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Peace
  • Never
  • Quiet

• I rode horses since I was a kid.

  

  Zach Roerig
  • Kid
  • Horses
  • Since

• I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Feel
  • Nurse
  • Secretary

• Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Long
  • Live
  • Why

• A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Great
  • Women
  • Constitution

• No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Community
  • Hand
  • Dead

• I don't have many friends.

  

  Larry David
  • Friends
  • Many

• Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Time
  • Change
  • Eyes

• Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom nor forced him wander, but confine him home.

  

  John Cleveland
  • God
  • Home

• When you're doing kidney transplants, you have to find out who can exchange kidneys with whom, doing blood tests to make sure it's true. You can't just work on the preliminary data. Then you have to organize the logistics.

  

  Alvin E. Roth
  • Work
  • True

• I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Trying
  • Anything
  • Tricky

• Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Believe
  • Nice

• It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.

  

  John Charles Polanyi
  • People
  • Experience
  • Science