Anthony Standen Quotes

Scientists are convinced that they, as scientists, possess a number of very admirable human qualities, such as accuracy, observation, reasoning power, intellectual curiosity, tolerance, and even humility.

Anthony Standen

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• Some kids go walking in the mountains, but I just went to the cinema. So when I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, even though this wasn't normal for Arab kids or anyone in the town, they were sort of expecting it and were very supportive.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Walking

• To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • Life
  • May
  • Desire

• The one good thing is that I get a lot more good scripts coming through my letterbox. 'Vera Drake' raised my profile in one way, and then 'Harry Potter' in another.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Way
  • More

• It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard!

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Responsibility
  • Successes

• A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man. At once the youth's eye fell out on his cheek, and the whole of the pupil which had been black became white.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Men
  • Black
  • Religious

• ... God uses such seemingly insignificant ways to prepare us for the plan He has for our lives.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • God
  • Insignificant

• Even Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were entertainers. In that way, I am an entertainer and want to make art that is fun.

  

  Yasumasa Morimura
  • Art
  • Fun
  • Want

• Usually, if you notice good cinematography, then the cinematographer's failing. I try to make light feel like it's always motivated and natural in some way and hope that the lighting goes unnoticed.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Way

• If the gospel of Jesus Christ can be proclaimed as a theology of self-esteem, imagine the health this could generate in society!

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Gospel
  • Jesus Christ
  • Proclaimed

• An evening everyone agrees, is a lost evening.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Lost
  • Evening
  • Agrees

• The superior man... does not set his mind either for or against anything, he will pursue whatever is right. The superior man thinks of virtue, the common man of comfort.

  

  Confucius
  • Man
  • Virtue
  • Common Man

• But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.

  

  William Robertson Smith
  • Religion
  • Ancient
  • Essentials

• I didn't add any new elements to the modern synthetic theory to speak of. I just modified things so that people could understand how things were in the plant world

  

  G. Ledyard Stebbins
  • World
  • Plant
  • Elements

• Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools. So I am arguing with, or at least playing with, the idea that art never improves.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Art
  • Writers
  • Scientists

• Our national policies will not be revoked or modified, even for scientists. If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we shall do without science for a few years.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Scientists
  • Jewish
  • Policies

• Scientists are convinced that they, as scientists, possess a number of very admirable human qualities, such as accuracy, observation, reasoning power, intellectual curiosity, tolerance, and even humility.

  

  Anthony Standen
  • Qualities
  • Observation
  • Scientists