Paul Kalanithi Quotes

We build scientific theories to organize and manipulate the world, to reduce phenomena into manageable units.

Paul Kalanithi

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• If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Great
  • Home
  • Doubt

• For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Attention
  • Always
  • Act

• If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Money
  • You
  • Looking

• When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • Decision
  • Back

• The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Important
  • Food

• If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.

  

  M. Esther Harding
  • Up
  • Personality
  • Reach

• Read, read, read, read and then read some more.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • More
  • Read
  • Then

• What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Attitude
  • Wants
  • Strike

• My No. 1 dream match is Brock Lesnar. And I want that to be a WrestleMania match. I don't know if the WWE will ever let that happen, because they might be afraid he might legitimately hurt me pretty bad.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Bad
  • Pretty
  • Want

• In 1972, Idi Amin expelled 80,000 Ugandan Indians and confiscated their 4,000 properties. Now, after returning those properties to their rightful owners, we have ensured that security of persons and property are guaranteed under the constitution.

  

  Yoweri Museveni

• I am doing it the it I am doing is the I that is doing it the I that is doing it is the it I am doing it is doing the I that am doing it I am being done by the it I am doing it is doing it

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Done

• A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP

  

  Leonard Nimoy
  • Life
  • Perfect
  • Moments

• Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money to defray the expenses of their funerals, and their memories will be incrusted over with sublime and pleasing thoughts, as monuments of other men are overgrown with moss; for our Friends have no place in the graveyard.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Men
  • Money
  • Friends

• No ally is better than one’s own race.

  

  Kim Young-sam

• To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others. We will not behave in foreign places so as to violate our rules and standards here at home, for we know that the trust which our Nation earns is essential to our strength.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Home
  • True
  • Trust

• Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day.

  

  Fred F. Fielding
  • Justice
  • Practice

• When I began modelling in my late teens, I started to earn a lot of money very, very quickly, but I'd never been shown how to manage it properly.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Money

• If your only arbiter of anything is money, really you should... go and rob banks.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
  • Money

• Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100.

  

  Pranab Mukherjee
  • Life
  • Different
  • Political

• The part of Stripe that I've always found most interesting is the idea of facilitating new commerce that wouldn't otherwise happen. Payouts is turning out to be a big part of that. These new networks are efficient, intelligent replacements for offline behemoths.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Interesting
  • Intelligent
  • New

• Loveward above the glancing oar

  

  James Joyce

• Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • People
  • Bad
  • Famous

• We build scientific theories to organize and manipulate the world, to reduce phenomena into manageable units.

  

  Paul Kalanithi
  • World
  • Theories
  • Manipulate