Abraham Pais Quotes

A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...

Abraham Pais

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• Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Values
  • Emotions
  • Step

• My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • House
  • Start
  • Stone

• I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Painting
  • Canvas
  • Ever

• I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • School
  • Wonder
  • Lucky

• I'm one of those pesky Brits.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Those
  • Brits

• In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

  

  Harold Evans
  • Find
  • Journalism
  • Sweat

• Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Life
  • Live
  • Enjoy

• I have great respect for Jaypee Greens as a company that has produced a truly world class, 24-carat, championship golf course. I am happy to be associated with a company with such outstanding qualities.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • World
  • Great
  • Happy

• I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see.

  

  Jack Black
  • Like
  • See
  • Just

• I went in, and there, in the front room, a converted bedroom, sat the first radio I had ever seen. The equipment was so bulky that it took up one entire wall of the bedroom. The set, which could send or receive signals, was tuned to KDKA in Pittsburgh, and I remember being completely flabbergasted at the thought of sounds coming from that box.

  

  Waite Hoyt
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Thought

• True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • True
  • Imagination
  • Vision

• Once we have something that is no longer under control, once technological development is yanked out of our hands, it doesn't have to continue to be beneficial to humans.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Control
  • Hands
  • Development

• People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Life
  • Art

• When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.

  

  Owen Wister
  • You
  • Choose
  • Just

• President Obama has a good sense not just of the economic requisites for financial crisis firefighting but also how you build political support for moving forward on reforming the financial system, making sure that the banks are carrying enough capital.

  

  Lael Brainard
  • Good
  • Political
  • Support

• Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Music
  • Together
  • India

• If I'm doing something in fashion, I will try to respect the 'laws' of the business, but I will try to keep my integrity and my respect for the designers and for my readers.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Business
  • Respect
  • Fashion

• While being in the right seat at the right game might create short-term reassurance, I can't get over the idea that really what people feel is that their club is being run by a group of guys who know the history, study the heritage and view Villa as a proud Victorian club in its third century.

  

  Randy Lerner
  • People
  • History
  • Game

• I love Tennessee, but they don't have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Up
  • Black
  • Water

• Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Up
  • Today
  • Nothing

• The universe is large and old, and the ingredients for life as we know it are everywhere, so there's no reason to think that Earth would be unique in that regard. Whether of not the life became intelligent is a different question, and we'll see if we find that.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Life
  • Different
  • Earth

• I love doing comedy, and that's the thing I will always go back to, really, but I'd love to have the freedom to do sort of 'meaty' roles but also have the freedom to do the sort of films I want to make, like what Woody Allen does. You forget he's funny because you're so gripped by the story, but they still make you laugh.

  

  Alice Lowe
  • Freedom
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Humanity
  • Learn
  • Understand

• A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...

  

  Abraham Pais