Richard Feynman Quotes

This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something.

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• One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Reason
  • Stories
  • Lives

• You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Sports
  • Win
  • Lose

• I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Important
  • Why
  • Better

• I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Reason

• One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.

  

  Iman
  • Political
  • Science
  • Name

• As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Work
  • Reading
  • Start

• I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.

  

  Raekwon
  • Time
  • Quality
  • Taste

• If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Country
  • Power
  • History

• I didn't necessarily want to be famous growing up, but I knew I would be a good famous person because I'm not offended if somebody comes up to me and knows things about me and wants to engage me in a conversation.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• I read an article that said one in five Americans thinks Elvis is alive. I want to find those morons and get them registered to vote for me.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Want
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• I have to say that after chemotherapy, Barbara Boxer just isn't that scary anymore.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Scary

• I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Work
  • Important
  • Job

• Relative to the taxi industry, Uber is a sustaining innovation; that is, it makes customers' lives better. Uber targeted mainstream markets with a better service for existing customers, and it succeeded in serving them better than the incumbents.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Service
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• The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Men

• In Mexic,o the concept of a sitcom doesn't actually exist - even if you do a sitcom, technically speaking, because it airs from Monday to Friday, they put it in the telenovela category. But, of course, I am from Mexico and grew up with the telenovela culture.

  

  Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Friday

• The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself.

  

  Emanuel Celler
  • Different
  • Depression

• What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant.

  

  James Sanborn

• I'm a fan of records. I'm a fan of listening to something cover to cover and not wanting to skip over anything.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Listening

• Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that.

  

  Kevin J. Anderson
  • Book

• My parents have always been incredibly supportive. Even when I dropped out of high school, they said, 'We trust you, we believe in you.'

  

  Philipp Meyer
  • Believe
  • School
  • High

• The little things are important, Mr. Wind-Up Bird.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Important
  • Little Things

• What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction.

  

  Jim Valvano
  • Greatness

• Mexico is the second most important destination of U.S. exports. What does this mean? The U.S. sells to our country almost the same as it sells to all the European Union, five times what it sells Brazil. More than what it sells together to Brazil, Russia, China, and India.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Important
  • Country
  • Together

• This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Important
  • Science
  • Prove