Abraham Pais Quotes

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

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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

• To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Trust
  • Positive
  • Perspective

• 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

• In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V, which relied on a chorus to explain in words the battles of Harfleur and Agincourt that could never be captured on the Elizabethan stage.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Words
  • Star
  • Never

• 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

• Had it not been for the race problem early thrust upon me and enveloping me, I should have probably been an unquestioning worshipper at the shrine of the established social order and of the economic development into which I was born.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Race
  • Order
  • Should Have

• Anybody can achieve gains in quality by slowing down production. That is not what we are talking about.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Quality
  • Talking
  • Gains

• A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • People
  • Path
  • Liberty

• It was Sophie Taeuber who, by the example of her work and her life, both of them bathed in clarity, showed me the right way. In her world, the high and the low, the light and the dark, the eternal and the ephemeral, are balanced in prefect equilibrium.

  

  Jean Arp
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

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

  

  Abraham Pais