Michael Polanyi Quotes

Personal participation is the universal principle of knowing.

Michael Polanyi

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• There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • New York
  • Street

• When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.

  

  Becky G
  • Family
  • Home
  • Lost

• Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Music
  • Never
  • Old

• I saw 'Hamilton' when it was at the Public, and I just wept profusely in my seat because this is a form I love deeply, and to watch it be reinvented in such a genius, gifted way and executed by such a brilliant company of human beings, I was overwhelmed with not just appreciation for the piece of work itself but for the possibility.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Work
  • Love
  • Appreciation

• I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!

  

  Ice Cube
  • Life
  • Family
  • Appreciate

• Spaces I love to do - the uglier the better - tend to be really old, dated basements - especially from the '60s to the '80s. I love those.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Better
  • Especially
  • Spaces

• No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Want
  • Need
  • Research

• I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Music
  • Perfect
  • Design

• With 'Trainwreck,' because it wasn't live and we could do more takes, I feel like we broke a lot.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Live
  • Feel
  • Broke

• When I'm at school, I usually put my hair up. High pony, side pony, or a bun, I like my hair out of my face.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• When I earnt my first money, I went to a shop and bought jeans and a top. But then I wore them both for such a long time that finally my model agency said, 'You should buy something else!' I was saving the money because it was the first time I'd ever had any.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• There is properly no history; only biography.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • History

• There is a big difference between an honest mistake made in a moment of spiritual weakness and a willfull decision to disobey persistently the commandments of God. Those who deliberately choose to violate God's commandments or ignore the standards of the Church, even when promising themselves and others that someday they will be strong enough to repent, are stepping into a dangerously slippery slope upon which many have lost their spiritual footing.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • God
  • Strong
  • Lost

• Sex got me into trouble from the age of fifteen: I'm hoping that by the time I'm seventy I'll straighten it out.

  

  Harold Robbins
  • Time
  • Age
  • Sex

• From the drawing-room window I see pass almost daily an old gentleman with white hair, a firm step, broad shoulders, healthy pink skin, a sunny smile - always singing to himself as he goes - a happy, rosy-cheeked old fellow, with a rosy-cheeked mind I should like to throw mud at him.

  

  Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Hair

• I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Feelings

• I filled my sketchbook with drawings, very much as any educated girl of my generation might have kept a diary.

  

  Gabriele Munter
  • Girl
  • Drawing
  • Generations

• I like seeing comedians do stuff that I could never do.

  

  Josh Thomas
  • Stuff
  • Seeing
  • Comedians

• You can be strong and true to yourself without being rude or loud.

  

  Paula Radcliffe
  • Strong
  • Being
  • Rude

• Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth, And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Truth
  • Policy
  • Falsehood

• Soccer is one of those sports that pulls in a universal audience in terms of demographics.

  

  Tanc Sade
  • Sports
  • Soccer
  • Universal

• For it is fixed principle with me, that whatever is done should be done well.

  

  George Washington
  • Done
  • Should
  • Wells

• Personal participation is the universal principle of knowing.

  

  Michael Polanyi
  • Principles
  • Universal
  • Participation