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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I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things at white heat.
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In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.
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The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.
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In a lot of things I'm reacting to a lot of things. I'm reacting to a lot people around me. Sometimes not necessarily saying anything but I just have to be thinking it.
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That's the beauty of starting lines: Until you begin a new venture, you never know what awaits you.
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Again and again, the key to a great discovery has been an unexpected observation.
