Barry Barish Quotes
I think the scientific goals and the technical challenges were the two things that equally motivated me.
Quotes to Explore
-
Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
-
Still to this day, I don't know when I write something whether it's good or not.
-
The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.
-
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
-
In the 1960s, and stretching back to the 1930s, it was felt by many economists that easy money is a reliable way to increase employment.
-
I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
-
No one pays me to be nice.
-
The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
-
From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
-
When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
-
I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
-
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
-
By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
-
'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.
-
The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.
-
The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
-
I'd love to do movies and be on TV. But I think if I transitioned into TV/film completely, I would really miss singing and dancing. It would be ideal to be cast in a movie musical!
-
It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
-
There's that talent thing where I can score goals, and there's also that want and ambition to keep doing it and doing it and doing it. I've seen a lot of players do it for a year and then they rest on their laurels, but I've been very driven throughout my career. Without being the most talented, I think I've tried to make the most of it.
-
Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition.
-
If someone comes to me and says they're not capable of being loved, I want to reach out to them and tell them that everybody's loveable. If a man is forced or wants to become a better man, then I root for him. Everybody needs to be loved.
-
I think the scientific goals and the technical challenges were the two things that equally motivated me.
