Rita Levi-Montalcini Quotes

It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

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• Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.

  

  Inara George
  • Sales
  • Masses
  • Overlooked

• I consider myself very lucky, essentially - I was put into a pop group even though my musical taste was very niche before.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Myself
  • Lucky
  • Taste

• As an actress, one of the perks is having access to ridiculously expensive clothing and prancing around on the red carpet. Who wouldn't want to have fun with that?

  

  Becki Newton
  • Fun
  • Want
  • Red

• I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Tennis
  • Court
  • Only

• I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.

  

  Imelda May
  • Trying
  • Job
  • Penny

• The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.

  

  Halle Berry
  • People
  • Love
  • Struggle

• I love children.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Children
  • Love
  • I Love

• Beer is amazing. Nutritional. Medicinal. A beverage, but also a meal.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Amazing
  • Beer

• A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business - live concerts.

  

  Elvis Presley
  • Live
  • Business

• Knievel seemed braver and more brazen - and more unhinged - than any other athlete-cum-thrill-seeker of his era.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Athlete

• Every day in our house is like Valentine's Day. I've kept it traditional with what my dad has done with my mom. Every morning, I get up and I make coffee and I bring Giuliana coffee in bed.

  

  Bill Rancic
  • Up
  • Done
  • House

• We have to find ways to create content that folks want to see.

  

  Bozoma Saint John

• I support parents making the best decisions for their kids' education.

  

  Carlos Lopez-Cantera
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Education

• People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

  

  Lewis Cass
  • People
  • Believe
  • May

• I have a very beautiful room that in my house that we bought in Princeton. It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and I can notice I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom.

  

  Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Up
  • Writing
  • House

• We have to accept that making movies is a never-ending process of occasional progress, frequent setbacks, and unexpected curveballs being thrown our way. Navigating that process requires stamina, curiosity, openness, and creative fire.

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • Progress
  • Fire
  • Curiosity

• I studied classical music in the Conservatory of Paris.

  

  Jean-Michel Jarre
  • Music
  • Paris

• Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.

  

  John Henry Newman
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Beginning

• My focus never wavered; I never accepted the film was not going to be finished.

  

  Dougray Scott
  • Focus

• Higher costs naturally translate into fewer employers offering insurance coverage, and fewer employees accepting it, even when it is offered.

  

  Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
  • Translate
  • Employers
  • Coverage

• By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.

  

  Jerry Rubin
  • Gun

• Environment, education, experience, make men conscious of passing reality but overwhelm their intuitive capacity when this is not very strong.

  

  Piet Mondrian
  • Men
  • Experience
  • Reality

• I have to be myself.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Myself

• It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.

  

  Rita Levi-Montalcini
  • Environment
  • Development
  • Complex