Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Quotes

Do not undertake a scientific career in quest of fame or money. There are easier and better ways to reach them. Undertake it only if nothing else will satisfy you; for nothing else is probably what you will receive. Your reward will be the widening of the horizon as you climb. And if you achieve that reward you will ask no other.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

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• I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Love
  • Want
  • Forever

• I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Money
  • Support

• The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • High
  • Quality
  • Ability

• For the first time I'm free to be myself.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Time
  • Free
  • Myself

• Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Here
  • Communism
  • Russians

• Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Seriously
  • Reflect

• We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • People
  • Power
  • Faith

• When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.

  

  Vince Clarke Erasure
  • Music
  • Business
  • Past

• I understand that people want to just listen to a track and put it on their iPod, and that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that, but why can't that exist hand in hand with an album? They're such different experiences.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Different
  • Why

• I believe all universities should at least offer courses in politics and policy implementation.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Believe
  • Politics
  • I Believe

• Most of the Jewish refugees, stripped of their considerable possessions, came to Israel. They were welcomed by the Jewish state. They were given shelter and support, and they were integrated into Israeli society together with half a million survivors of the European Holocaust.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Together
  • Society
  • Support

• Word of mouth works now, much more than ever. @-reply every single person.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Single
  • Now
  • Mouth

• After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Long
  • Design
  • Clothes

• When Pixar calls and says, 'Hey, you wanna be in a Pixar movie?' you don't do a lot of contemplating!

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Movie
  • You
  • Hey

• There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Gay
  • Diversity
  • Rights

• I'm from Miami, and Diplo is from Fort Lauderdale. We grew up with a lot of Cuban and Haitian friends.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Miami

• If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • You
  • Like
  • Look

• I hope that I inspire women to believe in themselves, no matter where they come from; no matter what education they have; what particular background they originate from.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Hope

• One of the high points of my career was winning the Grammy for 'I Will Survive.'

  

  Gloria Gaynor
  • High
  • Career
  • Winning

• A friend of mine had his own theater company, and he jumped me in like I was in a gang. And once I came in, it was just that simple. For the first time in my life, I felt, 'This is a career, this is a life that I think I can grow old doing.' It was love at first sight. I loved being on stage and reading these plays. It was great.

  

  David Alan Grier
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Fame
  • Prose
  • Temple

• When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women's Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women's rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Up
  • Women
  • She

• You can be stubborn and successful or you can give it up a bit and change things around. For me it's important to have a bit of both.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Important
  • Successful
  • Stubborn

• Do not undertake a scientific career in quest of fame or money. There are easier and better ways to reach them. Undertake it only if nothing else will satisfy you; for nothing else is probably what you will receive. Your reward will be the widening of the horizon as you climb. And if you achieve that reward you will ask no other.

  

  Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
  • Career
  • Fame
  • Reward