Jacob Bronowski Quotes

Interest, say in mathematics, has usually been killed by routine teaching, exactly as the literary interest... has been killed...

Jacob Bronowski

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• At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Work
  • She
  • Earth

• The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Thoughts
  • Direction

• GIS is being influenced by and integrating with all kinds of new innovations such as faster computing, big data, the cloud, smart devices, and distributed processing.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Smart
  • Data
  • Cloud

• I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Know
  • Day
  • Everyday

• You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • You
  • Silence
  • Dawn

• A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

  

  Ward McAllister
  • Die
  • Dinner
  • Obligation

• Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Know
  • Sweet
  • Argument

• I'm not cool - quite the opposite. I'm a real geek.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • Real
  • Cool
  • Opposite

• In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Man

• Now, I love playing moms who can't hide their paranoia.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Playing
  • Hide
  • Paranoia

• I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Writer
  • Director
  • Filmmaker

• I have a paralyzing fear of snakes.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Fear
  • Snakes

• I always do my own stunts, as much as possible. I'm a little stubborn about it.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Always
  • Possible
  • Stubborn

• For me, I like to look presentable when I'm outside. I'm not going to come to the office with nasty hair and pajamas just because I stayed up all night - that's just who I am.

  

  Yoon Ahn
  • Hair
  • Office
  • Nasty

• I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Life
  • Up
  • Own

• Americans are somehow obsessed with her, and something about me hit a spot with people in Japan.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Me
  • Obsessed

• Microchimeric sharing means that, even if the mother loses a child, she'll have a small memento of him or her secreted away inside her. Similarly, a bit of our mothers live on in all of us no matter how long ago Mom died.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Long
  • Live
  • She

• When I auditioned for 'Pitch Perfect,' I didn't know it was a singing movie. I didn't read the script. I go to the audition, and I'm like, 'Oh, it's a baseball movie.' But then I'm reading the lines, and I'm like, 'This doesn't seem like a baseball movie.'

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Movie
  • Reading
  • Perfect

• The trouble with writing for the web is that writing is about getting people to forget they're reading. Anything that reminds them they are reading, or which annoys or distracts them, bounces them out of the world. And the web, it seems to me, is all bounce. A very, very difficult medium to write for.

  

  Geoff Ryman
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.

  

  Joan Rivers
  • Control

• It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly informed.

  

  P. D. James
  • May
  • Question

• To legislation... the Puritans resorted. Instead of guiding, they repressed, and thus pitted themselves against the unconquerable impulses of human nature. Believing that nature to be depraved, they felt themselves logically warranted in putting it in irons. But they failed; and their failure ought to be a warning to their successors.

  

  John Tyndall
  • Nature
  • Failure

• Interest, say in mathematics, has usually been killed by routine teaching, exactly as the literary interest... has been killed...

  

  Jacob Bronowski