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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• 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

• 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 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
  • Perfect
  • Reading

• I don't have secrets in my life. Everything is out there.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Secrets

• The scar of fire, the dint of steel,Are easier than Love's wounds to heal.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Fire

• To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only one thing to say: You turn if you want to. laughter The lady's not for turning.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Waiting
  • Laughter

• Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

  

  Don Miguel Ruiz
  • Dream
  • Reality
  • Suffering

• Dating is... weird.

  

  Jennifer Coolidge
  • Weird
  • Dating

• Grace is unmerited, undeserved favor and it is free to us all in Christ.

  

  Creflo A. Dollar
  • Free
  • Christ
  • Grace

• They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction. 'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all.

  

  John Gardner
  • Evil
  • Stupid
  • Enjoy

• I like challenges, I like that fear you feel for something new, and with a new director, I think it's very important to always support new projects.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Important
  • Fear
  • Support

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

  

  Jacob Bronowski