Gary Taubes Quotes

To cultivate the faculty of observation must then be the first duty of those who would excel in any scientific pursuit, and to none is this study more necessary than to the student of medicine.

Gary Taubes

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• I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.

  

  Maggie Siff
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime.

  

  Rahman Baba
  • May
  • Want
  • Grow

• The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • World
  • Best
  • System

• I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • American
  • Care

• The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Best
  • Choose
  • Heroes

• I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Up
  • Now
  • Standards

• I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Small

• I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Why
  • Simple

• When there's justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it's okay for me to say those things.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Hope
  • Soul

• Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Home
  • Age
  • Hope

• I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Money
  • House
  • Living

• America is the most creative country and the most powerful government in the world.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • World
  • Country
  • America

• Every day, you're only as good as your last show.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Good
  • Day
  • Everyday

• The general market wants what I do.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Market
  • Wants
  • General

• Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I grew up on Long Island, and from as early as I can remember, as far back as first grade, I had two real passions - one of them was putting on plays, and the other was journalism. I was directing plays and editing school papers from first grade on, all the way through college.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Up
  • Long
  • Real

• Listen to the Beatles' 'Things We Said Today.' Ringo Starr does not play a fill in the entire song. It doesn't need it. 'A Day In the Life' has gorgeous fills, but there, the song needs it. When I play on any record, I'm striving to get where Ringo is. You play what doesn't take you out of the song.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Life
  • Today
  • Song

• When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Night
  • Wind
  • Sky

• I hated the sight on TV of big, clumsy, lumbering heavyweights plodding, stalking each other like two Frankenstein monsters, clinging, slugging toe to toe. I knew I could do it better ... circle, dance, shuffle, hit and move ... make an art out of it.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Move
  • Hated
  • Monsters

• I worked with the best directors - Martin Scorsese, John Huston, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock was great.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • Directors

• If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Duty
  • Conditions
  • Hold

• To cultivate the faculty of observation must then be the first duty of those who would excel in any scientific pursuit, and to none is this study more necessary than to the student of medicine.

  

  Gary Taubes
  • Duty
  • Medicine
  • Observation