John Eccles Quotes

Changes in relative ionic concentration across the postsynaptic membrane are readily effected by altering the ionic composition of the external medium.

John Eccles

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• Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way - in an echo of some of Shakespeare's plays - the modern media creates heroes to destroy them.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Media
  • Destroy
  • Heroes

• I try hope that in the end, we will live in a cancer-free world. We want to live disease-free lives.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • World
  • Live
  • Hope

• With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Political
  • Respect
  • Attention

• If you've been in a film that's seen by millions and millions and millions of people, you're more likely to be recognized for that than for your theater performances, which were seen by considerably less people. Why would I get upset by that?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Why
  • Upset

• I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Never
  • Many
  • Sue

• If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Power
  • Free
  • Blind

• With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Job
  • Fantasy
  • Conservative

• Dominican Republic is, is prosperous, healthy, full of resorts, etcetera.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Healthy
  • Full
  • Prosperous

• If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Audience
  • Expectation
  • Satisfied

• Doris Lessing really doesn't care what the critics say. In fact, she orders her publishers not to send her the reviews and gets cross with them if they do because she doesn't want that in her head. She's going where she's going, and that's where she wants to go.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • She
  • Want
  • Care

• It wasn't such a pleasant experience. We went through 14 hours with contractions every two minutes, no epidural, no nothing. Every two minutes, I would pass out. I went to the hospital on Saturday, and Levi was born on Monday.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Experience
  • Born
  • Saturday

• Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Good
  • Great
  • May

• In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Democracy
  • Leaders
  • Ethiopia

• It's funny because I grew up with the T.V. on 24 hours a day. And the more money I made, the more T.V.s we had.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Money
  • Funny

• The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that tells us about the powers and limits of foresight in much the same way that optical illusions tell us about the powers and limits of eyesight.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Same
  • Mistakes
  • Limits

• I was feeling a lot of confidence, so I wanted to take advantage of that and keep playing.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Feeling
  • Confidence
  • Take Advantage

• Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Community
  • Support
  • Vision

• I saw 'On The Town' about nine times. I discovered it. I loved it. I was in college.

  

  Harold Prince
  • College
  • Loved
  • Town

• We have to ask, 'How can we break a huge challenge like sending humans to Mars into a series of doable, affordable steps? How can we break that problem down into chunks in order to keep making progress?'

  

  Ellen Stofan
  • Challenge
  • Progress

• On Fantastic Mr. Fox, I got used to working with animated storyboards as a way of planning for the shoot. We did a lot of sequences that way with this movie. Partly as a result of that, I decided to build more sets in order to do certain shots.

  

  Wes Anderson
  • Certain
  • Order
  • Planning

• Nothings promised, not the rest of tonight, not all of tomorrow!

  

  Eric Jerome Dickey
  • Tomorrow
  • Promised

• Some drivers might be twisting their nose or don't like the idea. The way I see it, it's good for everybody.

  

  Helio Castroneves
  • Good
  • Might
  • Drivers

• It is, of course, written in Perl. Translation to C is left as an exercise for the reader.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Exercise

• Changes in relative ionic concentration across the postsynaptic membrane are readily effected by altering the ionic composition of the external medium.

  

  John Eccles