Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Quotes

Young people, especially young women, often ask me for advice. Here it is, valeat quantum. 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 feel like if we're not running, we're basically disrespecting our bodies. When you're running, you're really using your body for what it's meant to do.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • You
  • Running
  • Feel

• I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Technology

• I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Hope
  • Girl
  • Sweet

• I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

  

  Sallust
  • Wealth
  • Glory
  • Eternal

• We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren't there.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • House
  • Wish

• I care very much what the fans think. I'm starting to loosen my grip on caring about what critics say, because I think that critics care about what fans think of them, too, so there's a little bit of a refraction there, through that glass.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Think
  • Care
  • Caring

• I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Happy
  • Thankful

• The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Why
  • Eye

• That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Why
  • Team
  • Sports

• At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Day
  • End
  • Cheating

• I learnt circus skills in drama group, so I can juggle.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Drama
  • Skills
  • Group

• Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Style
  • Serious
  • Wonder

• Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • Justice
  • Opinion
  • Down

• You should not ask questions without knowledge.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • You
  • Knowledge
  • Questions

• And I hope very much that the ALP will become increasingly engaged in the international discussions that are taking place amongst centre-left parties generally.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Hope
  • Will
  • Become

• Human emotion is more interesting than anything. Everything that is so overtly sexual is not real. Real emotion is sexy. It's vulnerable and raw.

  

  Banks
  • Real
  • Interesting
  • Sexy

• I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • American
  • Artist
  • Jazz

• Fortunately, I have always played a lot of sports, so I keep my lungs in good shape. That translates to singing as well.

  

  Bria Skonberg
  • Good
  • Singing
  • Sports

• I drive a Prius. I always turn my faucets off. I never use plastic bottles anymore. I use glass bottles. I bring my own bags to the grocery store. And I try to use all natural shampoos and facial products.

  

  Brooke D'Orsay

• Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Conscious
  • Unconscious
  • Psychoanalysis

• Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Me
  • Humble
  • Capacity

• Even when I was with Arista records, which was the freest part of my career, you still have to run a lot of stuff by committee whether it's a budget, or the album artwork, or how may songs you get to record. This was total freedom. We had nobody to answer to. We didn't have to get anything approved.

  

  Pam Tillis
  • May
  • Career
  • Song

• Young people, especially young women, often ask me for advice. Here it is, valeat quantum. 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
  • Advice
  • Reward