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
  • Pride
  • Story

• 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

• Now, I’m not even saying that girls shouldn’t have princesses in their lives, the archetype in and of itself is not innately wrong, but there should be more options to choose from. So that was my intent, to demonstrate how ridiculous it is to paint an entire gender of heroes with one superficial brush.

  

  David Trumble
  • Princess
  • Ridiculous
  • Superficial

• It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Men
  • Choose
  • Govern

• Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound to speak one word more than he has actually and veritably got to say. Nay, rather every man is admonished and enjoined by the laws of honor, and even of personal ease, to stop short of that point; and at all events to hold his peace and take to his pipe again the instant he has spoken his meaning, if he chance to have any.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Chance
  • Laws
  • Silent

• Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Woman
  • First
  • Own

• Life is nutty; anything can happen.

  

  Paul Shaffer
  • Life
  • Happen
  • Nutty

• 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