Charles E. Leiserson (Charles Eric Leiserson) Quotes

We don't have much time, so we don't teach them; we acquaint them with things that they can learn.

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• I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Star
  • Big

• Make that extra effort for every relationship. Whether it's with your parents, your children, your husband or your friends. It makes a difference to them. I try to give my kids a lot of solo time where I play with them, talk to them, listen to them. Similarly, you give time for your workout. You slot a time for it, no matter what.

  

  Kajol
  • Time
  • Children
  • Kids

• Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Game
  • Want
  • Rest

• Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Like
  • Should
  • Novelists

• A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Year

• I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Long
  • Day
  • Water

• If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Life
  • Die
  • Taken

• Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Israel
  • Bank
  • West

• I do a lot for PETA. I do a lot of things I think are really important, I volunteer at school and I'm still amazed I can pay my bills because I feel like I don't work that much, I really don't.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Work
  • Important
  • School

• We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Work
  • God
  • Present

• When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Women
  • Power
  • Religious

• After being rejected for years, I found a publisher for 'Keeper,' and it won prizes, and then I had to write a second and a third book because I kept taking the money and spending it.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Money
  • Book
  • Years

• I like to run a lot. I play tennis, and I like doing outdoorsy stuff - fishing, canoeing.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • Doing
  • Tennis
  • Fishing

• I didn't do well at school, and I don't have lots of academic reference points.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • School
  • Well
  • Academic

• Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.

  

  Liang Chow
  • Gymnastics

• I had to find a diet that would kick me back into dating shape, because I know that I can't date at size 8. I have to date at size 2. And it's just a fact of nature. Go get your injections and your chemical peels. You gotta look good to attract a man.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Dating

• Everybody has their demons that they face, and I went through a time when I thought it was impossible to love myself.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • Time

• I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Girl
  • Go Out
  • Lapels

• I play on a soccer team.

  

  Jake Short
  • Team
  • Soccer

• Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Life
  • Like
  • Winning

• You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.

  

  Utkarsh Ambudkar
  • Work
  • Music
  • God

• Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Want
  • Science
  • Discipline

• I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Think
  • Actor
  • Starting

• We don't have much time, so we don't teach them; we acquaint them with things that they can learn.

  

  Charles E. Leiserson
  • Learning
  • Teach
  • Programming