Steven Johnson (Steven Berlin Johnson) Quotes
If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.
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My English was limited to vacationing and not really engaging with Americans. I knew 'shopping' and 'eating' English - I could say 'blue sweater,' 'creme brulee,' and 'Caesar salad,' - so I came here thinking I spoke English.
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One of these topics we talk about with the team on our 'Competition Wednesday' is iron sharpening iron. That's the process we go through to get each other ready, and that's why we have some periods where we get to compete against one another.
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I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.
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I don't know that I could play a complete and total mess. After awhile, I think I would be like, 'No, none of that!'
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What we discovered, counter-intuitively, is that when you start killing a cancer cell, one of the things it does in order to survive is to spread even further. It causes itself to form new blood vessels. We've termed this 'reactionary angiogenesis.'
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We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.
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My view of civilization is that there have always been small pockets of good, decent, kind people surrounded by corrupt and evil power structures. It's always a battle to stay on the side of good.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.
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I leaned right over to kiss your stoney book A little jealous of the ships with whom you flirt A billion lovers with their cameras Snap to look and in my fantasy I sail beneath your skirt
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I consider myself a line drive hitter with power. I just try to put my best swing on the ball every time.
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I was being groomed as an undergraduate to specialize in Midwestern prehistory, but going back to my teenage days, my interest has always been in our early human ancestors. I wanted to work in Africa.
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When I was growing up, it was not the heyday of the western.
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The Grammys used me for ratings. And they were up 18 percent!
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I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.
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I hired a publicist once I got cast in 'Passing Strange,' and one of the first conversations we had was about how I wanted to handle talking about my sexuality. I said, 'It's never been an issue for me. I want to talk about my work, but if something about myself relates to my work, of course I'll talk about it.'
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If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative.
