Nicholas Haslam (Nicholas Ponsonby Haslam) Quotes

I have a thirst - it's an awful word, but I'm thirsty for knowledge. I like knowing things, the odder the better, the more obtuse the better.

Nicholas Haslam

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• One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Science
  • Said

• I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.

  

  Aaron Yoo
  • Life
  • Live
  • Kind

• Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

  

  Ted Engstrom
  • Time
  • Best
  • Effort

• The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Different
  • Success
  • Man

• The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Time
  • You
  • Greatest

• Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Suffering
  • Principle

• Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Love
  • Giving
  • Best

• Every man over 40 should have a PSA test each year.

  

  Barry Bostwick
  • Man
  • Year
  • Over

• I am glad that he thanks God for anything.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • God
  • Thanks

• The boy is special, Aunt Annie told his mother, and his mother in turn told him. But what kind of special? No one ever says.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Mother
  • Boy
  • Aunt

• Chaos, rudis indigestaque moles.

  

  Ovid
  • Chaos

• 'I want to know how many years I got.''Many,' said Ta-Kumsaw. 'Or few. All that matters is what you do with however many years you have.'

  

  Orson Scott Card

• The only good time to say I have diarrhea is during a game of Scrabble, because it's worth a shitload of points.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Game

• Pushing people forward simply because of their colour, irrespective of merit, would be most unfortunate and would of course lead to disaster. It would mean that Rhodesia would then develop into a kind of banana republic where the country would in no time be bankrupt.

  

  Ian Smith
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• The kind of job doesn't matter. The length of time on the job doesn't matter... If you work hard and do your best, you'll be recognized and move onward.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Job

• The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Mind
  • Powerful
  • Solitude

• I can't cut out a piece of cloth and make a lovely dress, but I can mend tears in shirts and sew on buttons.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Tears

• And under Obamacare, insurance companies can no longer discriminate against women. Before, some wouldn't cover women's most basic needs, like contraception and maternity care, but would still charge us up to 50 percent more than men - for a worse plan.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Knowledge
  • Learning

• It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?

  

  Bud Abbott
  • Home
  • Guy

• The characteristic poetic strategy of our time-refine your singularities-is something Auden has not learned; so his best poems are very peculiarly good, nearly the most interesting poems of our time. When he writes badly, we can afford to be angry at him, and he can afford to laugh at us.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Time
  • Good
  • Interesting

• Today, technology is moving faster than the research establishment.

  

  James Heywood
  • Today
  • Technology
  • Moving

• At a certain point you have to make a decision in your life about where will you best serve, and I decided that I would best serve as a producer as opposed to a studio executive. There are many upsides to being the studio executive, but one of the downsides is that you get removed from the actual process of making the movie.

  

  Adam Leipzig
  • Movie
  • Decision
  • Process

• I have a thirst - it's an awful word, but I'm thirsty for knowledge. I like knowing things, the odder the better, the more obtuse the better.

  

  Nicholas Haslam
  • Knowledge
  • Knowing
  • Thirst