Richard Feynman Quotes

If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives.

Richard Feynman

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• I think it's such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn't really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • World
  • Music
  • Together

• I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Feel
  • Drama

• There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Long
  • Strong
  • Grow

• For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Music
  • Important
  • Marriage

• I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Up
  • School
  • She

• The production value of YouTube videos is not there.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Value
  • Production
  • YouTube

• I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Think
  • Vanity

• We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • History
  • Culture
  • Literature

• My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.

  

  Edmund White
  • Father
  • Young
  • Cowboy

• A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Dark
  • Poem
  • Redeem

• A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Past
  • Experiences
  • Pull

• As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • America
  • Doubt
  • Socialism

• He was a great man. He taught himself how to walk again, to write with his left hand. My father was a hero.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Great
  • Father
  • Hand

• Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • War
  • Constitution
  • Congress

• I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends, so don't talk to them.'

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Friends
  • Dad
  • Matter

• It happened one day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen on the sand.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Boat

• We never love someone. We just love the idea we have of someone. It's a concept of ours - summing up, ourselves - that we love.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Up

• We are all just cogs in a machine, doing what we were always meant to do, with no actual volition.

  

  Baron d'Holbach

• True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.

  

  Arthur Powell Davies
  • True
  • Rights
  • Principles

• Our prestige abroad, what other peoples think of us, is not of importance only to those Americans who work or travel abroad. The sign 'Yankee go home' does not apply only to our diplomats, foreign-aid specialists, and military personnel who are stationed overseas.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Work
  • Home
  • Travel

• It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress of the human race in the science of government, in the arts of civilization and refinement, and in the establishment of morality and religion, has been constantly and steadily towards improvement and perfection.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Great
  • Science
  • Mistake

• Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Opportunity
  • Education
  • Quality

• My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.

  

  Adrian Grenier
  • Ambition

• If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Science
  • Opportunity
  • Progress