Stephen Jay Gould Quotes

Evolution is a process of constant branching and expansion.

Stephen Jay Gould

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• If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • You
  • Teacher
  • Disciple

• The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Sweet
  • Him

• I think a child requires initial years of a mother's attention, which is very important, and I did it without any thought in the world. That's what I wanted to do.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • World
  • Important
  • Mother

• Even if there is peace with all the Arab states, I don't know if the terrorism against us will pass from this world.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • World
  • Peace
  • Terrorism

• Chinese people, young people, they don't go shopping a lot in department stores. All department store guys hate me. They say business is bad because of Jack.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Business
  • Bad

• Nellie Kim, an Olympic champion from the former Soviet Union, got a 10 right after me in '76, but nobody talks about that.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Right
  • Champion
  • Olympic

• People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody called somebody else black. It was foreign to my ears.

  

  Iman
  • People
  • Country
  • Black

• We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.

  

  Harold Taylor
  • Family
  • Care
  • Employees

• In my last scene in 'Breaking Dawn,' Bella has just died and I run outside and crumple to the ground and just lose it. I'm bawling. That was my last scene of 'Twilight' ever and I definitely had some extra motivation.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • motivation
  • Run
  • Twilight

• Enough of these little kitty cats we keep sending to Washington. David Dewhurst will compromise every day in the U.S. Senate... It's what he's done every day in state government.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Done
  • Day
  • Government

• Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Things
  • Names
  • Essence

• Michel Platini is a good player, not a great player

  

  Eamon Quotes
  • Good
  • Great
  • Player

• Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Today
  • Resources
  • Get Better

• Directing first film was terrified, it was really very scary because there is a lot of responsibility. I think I was terrified because I wanted it to work so much. A lot of actors direct movies but I thought the stakes were kind of higher for me because I really, really cared. I just worked as hard as I possibly could on every single thing, every single day. I said that if this failed it would not be because I didn't work as hard as I possibly could...every day.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Work
  • Single
  • Responsibility

• Within every setback or obstacle or disadvantage there is the seed of an equal or opposite or greater advantage or benefit.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Benefit
  • Disadvantages
  • Setback

• In fact, I'd say that the sources of the economy's expansion from 2003 to 2007 were, in order, the housing bubble, the war, and - very much in third place - tax cuts.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • War
  • Tax
  • Sources

• The evolution of the world can be compared to a display of fireworks that has just ended: some few red wisps, ashes and smoke. Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the slow fading of the suns, and we try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of worlds.

  

  Georges Lemaitre
  • Evolution
  • Worlds
  • Fireworks

• Evolution is a process of constant branching and expansion.

  

  Stephen Jay Gould
  • Evolution
  • Constant
  • Expansion