Eugene Odum Quotes

Cooperation for mutual benefit, a survival strategy very common in natural systems, is one that humanity needs to emulate.

Eugene Odum

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• Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • Long
  • Joy
  • Suffering

• The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Business
  • You
  • Woman

• On April 8, 1982, I was alone in the electron microscope room when I discovered the Icosahedral Phase that opened the field of quasi-periodic crystals.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Alone
  • Field
  • April

• Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Men
  • Women
  • American

• Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Hero
  • Loved
  • Him

• If I'm not doing something or working on something, I literally just sit in the room and think, which I don't think is productive. I won't go outside for days.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Think
  • Doing
  • Working

• Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Important
  • Me

• It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.

  

  Beatrix Potter
  • Said
  • Eating
  • Too Much

• One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Together
  • Society
  • Human

• Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.

  

  Vin Scully
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Money
  • Class
  • Far

• Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Time
  • Tears
  • Faces

• Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Great
  • History
  • Today

• I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. That's not what I grew up around.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Up
  • Music
  • Myself

• Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • School
  • Game
  • Giving

• So what does it matter where it was when it was hit? We could have sunk it if it'd been tied up on the quayside in a neutral port and everyone would still have been delighted.

  

  Alan Clark Dire Straits
  • Up

• This is an evil law, a black flag hovers over it.

  

  Ayman Odeh
  • Black
  • Law
  • Evil

• The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Mind
  • Valuable
  • Drop

• Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Different
  • Way
  • Two

• The man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

  

  Jacques Lacan

• "The weird world rolls on..." meaning that through all the ups and downs, all the travails that we go through, all the horrors, all the wars, all the deaths, all the cruelties, there's still something that keeps us wanting to wake up the next morning and go on with our lives - to make children, to fall in love, to continue humanity.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Children
  • War
  • Fall

• When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.

  

  Matt Lucas
  • School
  • Comedy
  • Teenager

• Cooperation for mutual benefit, a survival strategy very common in natural systems, is one that humanity needs to emulate.

  

  Eugene Odum
  • Humanity
  • Strategy
  • Cooperation