Scilla Elworthy Quotes

Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system of thought, different language, and having fresh visions of the future.

Scilla Elworthy

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• I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.

  

  Callum McDougall
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Think

• I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Believe
  • Celebrity

• Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Money
  • Poverty
  • Breeds

• Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Government
  • Advertising

• My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.

  

  Finn Jones
  • She
  • Dad
  • Child

• One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Earth
  • Destiny
  • Own

• When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.

  

  Imelda May
  • Sun
  • Mad
  • Heard

• In organic chemistry, we have learnt to derive from compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen, i.e. from the hydrocarbons, all other types of combinations, such as alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, acids, etc.

  

  Otto Wallach
  • Chemistry
  • Carbon
  • Organic

• Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • Strong
  • Intellectual

• Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Why
  • Culture
  • Government

• I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Death
  • Become
  • Destroyer

• Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Love
  • Trust
  • Commitment

• If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Film
  • Right
  • Timing

• I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Think
  • Talent
  • Greatest

• Now that man can fly through the air like a bird ... and swim in the sea like a fish, wouldn't it be wonderful if he could just walk the earth like a man?

  

  Jack Paar
  • Earth
  • Air
  • Sea

• The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace.

  

  Ludwig Quidde
  • May
  • Peace
  • Popular

• It seems like the record industry made so much crazy money in the 1960s that everyone wanted to get in on it. Now it's just become very corporate. So all of these people who despise music end up being in charge.

  

  Win Butler
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science books that I read avidly.

  

  David Gross
  • Age
  • Science
  • Popular

• I love jotting down ideas for my blog, so I doodle or take notes on all kinds of stuff that inspires me: the people I meet, boutiques I visit, a florist that just gave me a great idea for an interior-design project, things like that.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • People
  • Great
  • Design

• I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Write
  • Ambition
  • Four

• Success is not just making money. Success is happiness. Success is fulfillment; it's the ability to give.

  

  Adam Neumann
  • Money
  • Success

• I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Great
  • Think
  • Film

• When I was a young guy, when I first started with G.E., Jack Welch sent us all to Japan because in those days Japan was gonna crush us. And we learned a lot about Japan when we were there. But over the subsequent 30 years, the Japanese companies all fell behind. And the reason why they fell behind is because they didn't globalize.

  

  Jeffrey R. Immelt
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Japanese

• Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system of thought, different language, and having fresh visions of the future.

  

  Scilla Elworthy
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Real