Rita Levi-Montalcini Quotes

The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.

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• Most of my instruments are handmade.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Most
  • Instruments
  • Handmade

• When I did a high-profile project, I was not the developer of it.

  

  A. James Clark
  • High
  • Project
  • Did

• I would like the thrill of making a new project every time.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Time
  • New
  • Project

• When I was eleven, I got cast in the last directorial project of Christopher Reeve.

  

  Vanessa Marano
  • Project
  • Last
  • Cast

• What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Way
  • Me
  • Project

• Everything can't be a postage-stamp-sized project. Everything can't be a chamber piece. Musicals aren't even meant to be that, or identified with it... It's none of it simple.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Simple
  • Project
  • Meant To Be

• Every film I do, I'm involved with from the very conception of the project.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Film
  • Involved
  • Project

• This project, 'Electronica,' is about working with people who are a strong source of inspiration to me.

  

  Jean-Michel Jarre
  • Inspiration
  • Project
  • Electronica

• Over the years, many executives have said to me with pride: 'Boy, I worked so hard last year that I didn't take any vacation.' I always feel like responding, "You dummy. You mean to tell me you can take responsibility for an eighty-million-dollar project and you can't plan two weeks out of the year to have some fun?

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Fun
  • Responsibility
  • Boy

• The first thing you have to do is get immersed in the project, organizing yourself, knowing what you are going after and not going after.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Project
  • Immersed

• My fun is working on a project and solving the problems.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Fun
  • Problems
  • Project

• These people vary from some of our senior managers who are helping getting the project office set up to construction workers.

  

  John Britton
  • People
  • Helping
  • Office

• I have tried to improve telescopes and practiced continually to see with them. These instruments have play'd me so many tricks that I have at last found them out in many of their humours.

  

  William Herschel
  • Found
  • Lasts
  • Instruments

• In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the cause, there is no rule or 'law'. It is we alone who have devised cause, sequence, for-each-other, relativity, constraint, number, law, freedom, motive, and purpose; and when we project and mix this symbol world into things as if it existed 'in itself', we act once more as we have always acted- mythologically.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Law

• Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses, it hearkeneth also with the ears of the spirit.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Spirit
  • Sense
  • Instruments

• A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that's true of a lot instruments; pianos sound like pianos, but there's something about the guitar - the range of possibilities is much broader.

  

  David Howell Evans U2
  • Guitar
  • Instruments
  • Trumpet

• The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Means
  • Instruments
  • Designs

• I aspire to be an instrument of the director. I'm happiest like that. The stronger the director, the more I'm willing to give them.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Giving
  • Stronger
  • Directors

• Very much as men project weird fantasies on women, the people in New York project weird fantasies on California.

  

  Carolyn See
  • Weird
  • Project
  • Fantasies

• Those residents who are there should consider leaving unless their presence there is essential, ... British citizens who remain should exercise extreme caution, especially in public places.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Exercise
  • Place
  • Leaving

• Cleanliness is a good thing, which the society should embrace. But it has nothing to do with Modi, nor can he implement it.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Good
  • Society
  • Embrace

• I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

  

  E. B. White
  • Know
  • Literature
  • More

• As crises came up later on - "Oh, we have to compromise, and the record company wants to do this," I'd be like, "No, I don't have to."

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Crisis
  • Compromise
  • Record Company

• The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.

  

  Rita Levi-Montalcini
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