Bernard Lown Quotes

The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress. General acceptance of a practice becomes the proof of its validity, though it lacks all other merit.

Bernard Lown

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• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• I was never that kid who used to brag about anything.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Never
  • Kid
  • Used

• Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Coming up with novel ideas and converting them into real products has always been as natural as breathing for me.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Always
  • Ideas
  • Natural

• I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Up
  • Family
  • Faith

• Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • High
  • Way
  • Bar

• Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Fiction
  • Short
  • Experiments

• For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the air and the light which vary continually. For me, it is only the, surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Life
  • True
  • Light

• FEMA? I always thought it was a bone here in your ass.

  

  Lewis Black

• Don't be fooled. Looks can be deceptive. Like every working mother, I'm paddling away like a duck beneath the water.

  

  Katherine Kelly
  • Mother
  • Water

• When you're coming out new, it's harder as a girl to gain fans because most of them are girls, and they can be like, 'Do we like her?' If I were a boy, it'd be much easier.

  

  Anne-Marie
  • Girl
  • Boy

• What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.

  

  Ben Nelson
  • May
  • American
  • America

• Look, this job has always been a crucible of conflict.

  

  Bruce Babbitt
  • Job

• I guess coming after 'Country Grammar' and everybody thinking, 'Well maybe, that was it.' To come back with something like 'Nellyville' and to have people accept it and appreciate it the way they did, that was a great move.

  

  Nelly
  • People
  • Great
  • Thinking

• I know it is a cliche, but I am just going to focus on each game and try to do as well as I can.

  

  Dele Alli
  • Game
  • Focus

• I'm not homophobic, I'm not racist. I'm not against any people. All I have for people is love.

  

  Tyson Fury
  • People

• Florida is a great place to set a novel.

  

  John Lutz
  • Great

• AIDS had landed and I was terrified. I was very scared, just as everyone was in the '80s. It was really hard to be sexually active and to sleep with men and with women and not feel you had a responsibility in terms of having safe sex.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Responsibility
  • Aids
  • Terrified

• No man can stand still; the moment progress is not made, retrogression begins. If the blade is not kept sharp and bright, the law of rust will assert its claim.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Law
  • Progress

• Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

  

  Elizabeth Smart
  • Life
  • Work
  • Interest

• The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • School
  • Science
  • Simple

• Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements.

  

  Bill Frist
  • Power
  • Future

• The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress. General acceptance of a practice becomes the proof of its validity, though it lacks all other merit.

  

  Bernard Lown
  • Practice
  • Progress
  • Security