John Polanyi Quotes
Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing.
Quotes to Explore
-
Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
-
It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
-
I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
-
The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.
-
I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.
-
Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.
-
I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
-
If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me.
-
All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
-
I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
-
Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
-
Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
-
I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
-
What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.
-
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
-
One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.
-
There are charms made only for distant admiration.
-
I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.
-
Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.
-
I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same.
-
I'm not someone who feels that unless I am anxious or depressed, there will be no creative drive. My greatest desire in the world is that my desperation goes away, and I can be happy.
-
We are the greatest power in the world. If we behave like it.
-
No one picked on me for my lunch money. Probably because it was the 1980s and no one had lunch money.
-
Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing.
