Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Quotes
Again and again, the key to a great discovery has been an unexpected observation.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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I used to have to force myself to go, okay, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing and then all of a sudden a thought of some where could come in. Now I can just focus and not think about anything. So, yeah, I guess I do that a lot.
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I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't do that. If you track my movement, you'll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn't mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?!
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Wrestling in Japan, obviously, the fans are a little bit different - very quiet, very respectful in New Japan - but here in the WWE, these fans are going nuts.
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I have reservations about everything I do.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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I was not afraid of the press or the militants. It was uncomfortable, but I was not afraid. With respect to the press, I knew I knew more than they knew about city matters. With respect to the militants, I understood it. I mean, everybody believed in those days that they were being screwed, you know, that somebody was getting ahead of them.
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I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.
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Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
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The strength of America is not in Washington.
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Once you start to try and calculate why you were cast and why you weren't, you get in trouble.
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I would start seeing, in just the sense I was saying now, the kind of record it was going to be and what the arrangement demands, and what my vocal part should be in the record. This was all emerging as the song was emerging.
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We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is there.
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Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.
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I then walk off into the swamp along the path of logs and tree-trunks, picking my way cautiously, now glancing right and left on the foliage, and then surveying carefully the surface of the smooth round log I am walking on.
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God alone is the author of all the motions in the world.
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If you’re in business, you’re in business for one thing – to make money.
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From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.
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All through the centuries scholars and scientists have been imprisoned, tortured and burned alive for some discovery which seemed to conflict with a petty text of Scripture. Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
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Gardening is in large measure a phenomenon of attention.
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Again and again, the key to a great discovery has been an unexpected observation.
