Steven Chu Quotes

Of course we don't want the price of gasoline to go up, we want it to go down.

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• A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Stone
  • Rolling
  • Moss

• I don't want to sound too Oprah-ish or anything like that, but I really believe that if you have the power to imagine particular things, you have the ability to transform them.

  

  Rabindranath Maharaj
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Sound

• In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Movies

• Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Bad
  • Words
  • Confidence

• I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Nations
  • Mother`s
  • Wars

• Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World War II experiences, I thought, 'If this guy is still alive, I want to meet him.'

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • World
  • War
  • Guy

• Every time we revise our history, we also revise the mythology of our history.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Time
  • History
  • Mythology

• For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Problem
  • Problems
  • Trees

• All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me.

  

  Bess Myerson
  • Life
  • Home
  • Mother

• When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury.

  

  Lee Myung-bak
  • Trying
  • War
  • Economy

• The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it’s wanting what you get.

  

  Alex Trebek
  • Want
  • Happiness
  • Secret

• I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Children
  • Night
  • Die

• Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you start writing, and I can't really see it. I feel like the words are much more naked in pencil, on a notebook. I feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather than if I have a keyboard. I tend to add more in the margins. I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.

  

  Lily King
  • Writing
  • School
  • High

• There`s always the trick with anything what`s a remake. Like how much do you want to make that is brand new and how much to you want to keep that is original?

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Want
  • Brands
  • Tricks

• If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Reality

• I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.

  

  Archibald Cox
  • Home
  • Murder
  • Confess

• I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Mind
  • Dark
  • Thoughts

• Henley's one of my favorite singers. I've maintained a friendship with Don over the years.

  

  Steve Lukather Toto
  • Friendship
  • Singers
  • Don

• I guess the big thing is that I don't buy anything first-hand. It's a personal policy I have for all sorts of reasons. If you research to the textile industry yourself, you'll know why. I came to it personally.

  

  Ezra Miller
  • Industry
  • Policy
  • Reasons

• First, you decide what you want specifically; and second, you decide if you're willing to pay the price to make it happen, and then pay that price.

  

  Nelson Bunker Hunt
  • Pay
  • Price
  • Decide

• The young women of today, free to study, to speak, to write, to choose their occupation, should remember that every inch of this freedom was bought for them at a great price. It is for them to show their gratitude by helping onward the reforms of their own times, by spreading the light of freedom and of truth still wider. The debt that each generation owes to the past it must pay to the future.

  

  Abigail Scott Duniway
  • Women
  • Freedom
  • Price

• Of course we don't want the price of gasoline to go up, we want it to go down.

  

  Steven Chu
  • Price
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