Richard Feynman Quotes
Any schemes - such as 'think of symmetry laws', or 'put the information in mathematical form', or 'guess equations'- are known to everybody now, and they are all tried all the time. When you are stuck, the answer cannot be one of these, because you will have tried these right away...The next scheme, the new discovery, is going to be made in a completely different way.
Quotes to Explore
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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Modeling is a job. Even my mum doesn't believe that I do work hard.
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Like in nature, I like things which are based on a few simple principles, even though their manifestation can be very rich.
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
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TRUE! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?
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'A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.'
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Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them. (Long translation)
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In my lifetime all our problems have come from mainland Europe and all the solutions have come from the English-speaking nations across the world.
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In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.
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In his very first film, Mr. Gonzalez Inarritu makes the kind of journey some directors don't - or can't - travel in an entire career.
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Increased spending, growing government debt and overreaching regulations are stifling job creation and economic growth.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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I hate personal competition, and so each time in my career I came in a field where it was highly competitive, I gave up.
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I'm one of those lucky guys making a living out of something I really enjoy doing. That's a blessing. But you never know. What if my subsequent book series flops? I don't come from a wealthy background, so I'd be left with no choice. I'd have to go back into banking!
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Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
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I write a lot of my music, but not all of it. I have always subscribed to the 'best song wins' theory when making an album.
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Strong communities are built around local, real food. Food we trust to nourish our bodies, the farmer and planet.
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I only get unusual ailments.
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I don't really like those sorts of actresses who say, 'I don't want to make that movie,' but they make the movie. They just spend their time not liking being on a set and I just think it's absurd, because we are so lucky to do this job. When you accept to make a movie, just make the movie. And then it's more easy for relationships.
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Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
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I know that in my family there are histories of violence that are internal family things and that are oftentimes dealt with internally. By internally, I mean inside the family group, but also partly inside ourselves. You know, self-hatred and hostility and rage and this cycle that won't break.
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Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.
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When it comes to our military, what we have to think about is not, you know just budgets, we've got to think about capabilities.
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Any schemes - such as 'think of symmetry laws', or 'put the information in mathematical form', or 'guess equations'- are known to everybody now, and they are all tried all the time. When you are stuck, the answer cannot be one of these, because you will have tried these right away...The next scheme, the new discovery, is going to be made in a completely different way.
