William Ramsay Quotes

The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.

William Ramsay

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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 really like funny women. I'm drawn to women like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig, Amy Schumer. They're writers, they're producers, they're actresses. They're brilliant, funny, excellent women.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Like

• One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Doing
  • Direction
  • Group

• Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
  • Bad
  • Police
  • Nobody

• Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.

  

  Gary Ryan Blair
  • Mind
  • Goals
  • Blessed

• Elegance is very dangerous. It's like TNT. A little goes a long way.

  

  Edoardo Ponti
  • Long
  • Way
  • Elegance

• I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.

  

  Imelda May
  • Work
  • Play
  • Language

• I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Want
  • Liked
  • Respected

• Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Talk
  • React

• If I can be a leader, I will.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Leader
  • Will
  • I Can

• You know, I've always tried to look at things as just what the part was. I never tried to worry about whether it was the lead or not the lead, because I think you can really mess your mind up when you're too caught up in those things.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Think

• The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Important
  • You
  • Yourself

• I wholly promote the omelette as a meal whatever the occasion, especially your last one.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Last
  • Whatever
  • Meal

• The goal of my shows, my interviews, my business, my philanthropy, all of it, whatever ventures I might pursue, would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates me.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Business
  • Goal
  • Philanthropy

• Cosmic energy enters the body through the medulla and then passes to the cerebrum, in which it is stored or concentrated.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Energy
  • Body
  • Cosmic

• This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Honor

• I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • World

• I definitely want to study film. I'd like to have my own studio one day and just make a lot of movies.

  

  Alexander Ludwig
  • Study

• The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Study
  • Mathematician
  • Engaged

• According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and acts are attributes of which he is the subject. The mind is the subject in which ideas inhere. Moreover, the man's faculties and acts are employed upon external objects; and from objects all his sensations arise. Hence the part of a man's knowledge which belongs to his own mind, is subjective: that which flows in upon him from the world external to him, is objective.

  

  William Whewell
  • World
  • Mind
  • Knowledge

• Last year they came in and won the game; that's how I would define it. Revenge is never on our mind. What's on our mind is playing defense, rebounding, taking care of the ball, and running our transition game.

  

  Karl Hobbs
  • Mind
  • Running
  • Playing

• It's so important which musicians we choose for being in the orchestra.

  

  Andris Nelsons
  • Important

• The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.

  

  William Ramsay
  • Mind
  • Study
  • Person