Rainer Weiss Quotes

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• I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Time
  • Humanity

• Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Men
  • Society
  • Philosophy

• Going to film school just made me love it. Before film school, I didn't really think much of acting. I was more into making music, but going to school and learning about it every day, it made me grow profound respect for the art.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Music
  • School
  • Love

• Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Alone

• Your goals should be to have the system work for you instead of your working for the system! Be the hammer - not the nail!

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Work
  • Goals
  • System

• Chinese sausage, which is widely available from Asian grocers and online, is sweet, rich, and enticingly smoky. I add it to steamed rice with strips of omelette and a few baby veg stir-fried with soy.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Baby
  • Sweet
  • Chinese

• I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Life
  • Past
  • Change

• BSB are a great bunch of guys, I really like them

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Great
  • Guy
  • Bunch

• Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring.

  

  Charles Davenport
  • Parents
  • Offspring

• They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Wise
  • Army
  • Defeated

• Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Divine
  • Stream
  • Man Is

• You'd have thought they'd have been on about Sir Elton John, and the fantastic goals David has scored which have got us through to the World Cup. But what they were really interested in was that I was holding a bag that had 'Sex' written on it. It's quite bizarre.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Sex
  • Goals
  • Interested

• The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Mind
  • Impression
  • Capable

• Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Work
  • Home
  • Goal

• To be silent is to be passive.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Silent
  • Passive

• Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Money
  • Back
  • Expect

• We expect surprises. There has to be surprises.

  

  Rainer Weiss
  • Expect
  • Surprises