Ivan Pavlov Quotes

Do not become archivists of facts. Try to penetrate to the secret of their occurrence, persistently search for the laws which govern them.

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• My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Up
  • Great
  • Business

• I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Myself
  • Spiritual
  • Somewhat

• My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writer
  • Editor
  • Publisher

• All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • World
  • Best
  • Golf

• The recreational golfer who gives it careful thought will conclude that the favorite golf hole in his life played downhill, gradually or severely, and normally was downwind as well.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Life
  • Thought
  • Golf

• It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Balance
  • Friendship
  • Without

• I'm not that interested in people.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • People
  • Interested

• I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net. Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care ... it is another story altogether.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • America
  • Health
  • Blessed

• I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • American
  • Story
  • Pride

• The press should not get special privileges - if they drive recklessly or put people in danger, they should be subject to every reckless driving and endangerment law on the books - but they should also not be singled out for special punishment.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Law
  • Driving

• There is no religion higher than truth.

  

  Helena Blavatsky
  • Truth

• His last word had been my name. He had called out to me and I had not answered.I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Free
  • Deep
  • Tears

• All that God had to do to harden Pharaoh's heart, or to harden your heart, is to withhold His own grace.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Heart
  • Pharaohs

• I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Drug
  • Realizing
  • Headache

• It's almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Belief
  • Backgrounds
  • Embarrassing

• Live life for the moment, because everything else is uncertain.

  

  Louis Tomlinson One Direction
  • Life
  • Live
  • Moments

• We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Attention
  • Fool
  • Wavering

• Every ruler must remember three things. Firstly, that he rules man; secondly, that he rules according to law, and thirdly, that he does not rule for ever.

  

  Agathon
  • Remember
  • Law
  • Rules

• I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Good
  • Done
  • Identity

• Even though flowers fall, don't regret it. Even though weeds grow, don't hate them. Don't arouse the passions of attraction and repulsion, hating and loving. If only we don't arouse the passions, the falling of flowers and the growing of weeds as they are is manifest absolute reality.

  

  Hakuun Yasutani
  • Reality
  • Growing
  • Hate

• Truth takes no account of centuries.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Truth
  • Century
  • Accounts

• A surgeon will cut off a limb in order to protect the body from disease. And a commander-in-chief should pull out of a war that cannot be won in order to protect a nation.

  

  Michael Huffington
  • Nation
  • Protect
  • Chief

• Do not become archivists of facts. Try to penetrate to the secret of their occurrence, persistently search for the laws which govern them.

  

  Ivan Pavlov
  • Facts
  • Laws
  • Govern