Leonard Susskind Quotes

At 5 years old, I saw 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein,' and I was so scared when Costello sat himself down in the lap of the monster, not realizing where he was. My friends teased me. They were older, 8 years old. And my goal was to become a mad scientist and get back at them. And here I am, mad as hell!

Leonard Susskind

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• I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Myself
  • Feel
  • One Word

• Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Love
  • Youth
  • To Love

• Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Death

• I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Love
  • Movies
  • Performance

• Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Success
  • Chance
  • Win

• My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Job
  • Speak

• The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.

  

  Adam Dell
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Time
  • Know
  • Trouble

• Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.

  

  Yishan Wong
  • Real
  • Story
  • Where

• And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

  

  Larry David
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Version

• If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Man
  • Lose
  • Losing

• I do periodically ride a bus with my kids.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Kids
  • Ride
  • Bus

• My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Parents
  • Amazing
  • Best

• All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.

  

  Xenophon
  • Up
  • Great
  • Men

• Money is a kind of poetry.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Money
  • Kind
  • Poetry

• We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Better
  • Succeed
  • Concert

• I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Small
  • Eyes
  • Drawing

• What I do is I do my job.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Job

• To be honest, bread constipates me, and I like to have my daily bowel movement.

  

  Jessica Simpson
  • Daily

• It remains an incredible struggle for women in theater, and, in particular, playwrights and directors, to get their work seen and to not only get seen, but to get it to Broadway.

  

  Lynn Nottage
  • Work
  • Women
  • Struggle

• Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

  

  Deborah Bull
  • Words
  • Powerful

• Millions of nerdy kids who grew up in the 1980s could only find the components they needed at local Radio Shacks, and the stores were like a lifeline to a better world where everybody understood computers.

  

  Annalee Newitz
  • Up
  • World
  • Kids

• The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Success
  • Measure
  • Experiments

• At 5 years old, I saw 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein,' and I was so scared when Costello sat himself down in the lap of the monster, not realizing where he was. My friends teased me. They were older, 8 years old. And my goal was to become a mad scientist and get back at them. And here I am, mad as hell!

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Friends
  • Mad
  • Monster