Judy Woodruff Quotes
At work, conversation increases productivity. And yet people go into work, put on their headphones. In one interview, somebody called it - they become pilots in their own cockpits.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
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I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.
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I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.
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It's like a painter with various layers of paint. I start with a drum loop and add keyboards, and then melodies start to take shape. The vocals happen later. I've never really done therapy before, but it's a form of therapy. Everything else falls away.
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At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
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This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs.
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It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
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I'm a product of good nutrition, cutting edge supplementation and hard training, and I'm an old guy.
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Can't we kidnap Old Jethro, force him to help us, then vanquish him and the healer?" Bran choked on his drink.
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As every parent knows, children begin life as uninhibited, unabashed explorers of the unknown. From the time we can walk and talk, we want to know what things are and how they work - we begin life as little scientists.
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There are lots of jobs in search of talent. And there's lots of talent in search of meaningful work.
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It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.
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I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.
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At work, conversation increases productivity. And yet people go into work, put on their headphones. In one interview, somebody called it - they become pilots in their own cockpits.
