John Polkinghorne Quotes

Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.

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• Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Think
  • Sex
  • Same

• A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Music
  • Know

• I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • School
  • Power
  • Sun

• Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • World
  • Great
  • Space

• Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • You
  • White

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Excellence
  • Contemplation

• I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Human
  • Turn

• The feeling of insecurity is inimical to our sense of wellbeing, as it causes anxiety and stress, which harms our physical and mental health. It is no surprise then that, according to some surveys, workers across the world value job security more highly than wages.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • World
  • Job
  • Feeling

• When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Book
  • Myself
  • Encouragement

• We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Take
  • Credit
  • Talents

• In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Lost
  • Government
  • Problem

• I feel like I'm the luckiest actress in the world.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • World
  • Like
  • Feel

• So if I'm 36, and I have my 19-year-old self, I'm pulling him to the side and saying, 'Listen bruh, throwing on your Timbs and your fitted hat and strolling campus trying to get a girl to say yes, or going to the club hoping you bring a girl home, that's not the way to go about healthy relationships. You need to step back.'

  

  Nate Parker
  • Trying
  • Home
  • Girl

• Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Sacrifice
  • Race

• Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start the writing process - maybe come up with a hook or start a verse. Sometimes it just happens like that. A song like 'Lights Please' happens like that.

  

  J. Cole
  • Up
  • Good
  • Writing

• I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Believe
  • Live

• In 1993, my first documentary was about the civil war in Algeria. That was in French and in Arabic. Another short film I did was silent. What I'm trying to say is that, yes, I'm Italian, and yes, I make films with Italian money, but personally, I've always been invested in the broader world of film-making.

  

  Luca Guadagnino
  • World
  • Trying
  • Money

• Classic music somehow changed, and it changed between the first and the second world wars, and somehow what happened was that the hero that had been the composer, the hero now was the performer, and especially the conductor.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • World
  • War
  • Hero

• People who are constantly looking for the opportunity to do something new are also people who are not going to be helped by having job titles - job titles create expectations of specialization and focus which don't map really well to creating the best possible experience for your customers.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Job
  • Experience

• The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid.

  

  Robert Frost
  • People
  • Afraid

• For after all, a poster does more than simply supply information on the goods it advertises; it also reveals a society’s state of mind

  

  Armin Hofmann
  • Mind
  • State
  • Poster

• Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.

  

  John Polkinghorne
  • World