Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Quotes

I have often endeavoured to view the circulation of the blood in terrestrial animals, but without success, by reason that no parts of their bodies were sufficiently transparent.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

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• I wouldn't wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless hours at different studios, so far apart. Even on your own lot, relationships were formal and often competitive.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Different
  • Real
  • Friends

• People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Success
  • Appreciate

• I think people are going to like my new shoes. I like them. I had a lot of success with the one last year, but this year's shoe is going to be a little different, but at the same time it's going to be a little spin-off on last year's shoe.

  

  Vince Carter
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Success
  • Leadership

• You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Children
  • You
  • Know

• No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Success
  • Effort
  • Perseverance

• Some people are instantly brilliant. The Kenneth Branaghs of this world are ready-formed actors at 23 - he has used his success in lots of different ways - but there are people out there for whom acting is: 'Ooh, I can get on the telly and be famous.'

  

  Harriet Walter
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Time
  • Done
  • Success

• Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Success
  • Look
  • Heights

• No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Success
  • Price
  • Corner

• Just like gold, which has to weather very high temperatures to achieve the sheen and shine it finally gets, so also every person has to go through struggles in his life to achieve success.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Life
  • High
  • Success

• Russia and China, which have embraced autocratic capitalism, have attracted admirers and emulators by the seeming success of their strongman rule.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Success
  • Capitalism
  • China

• Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Success
  • Feeling
  • Shame

• Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • People
  • Important
  • Family

• Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • Success
  • Like
  • Someone

• Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Success
  • Happiness
  • Caring

• Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Up
  • High
  • Success

• Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Success

• Sometimes 'Portlandia' can be pretty traditional. But the stuff I've always loved on 'SNL' has always been the weirdest stuff I've done. The stuff that went on at 10 to 1 in the morning.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Done
  • Pretty
  • Morning

• I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.

  

  Alain Prost
  • Work
  • Beginning
  • Practice

• Somebody asked me once, 'Do you think that swing will ever come back?' And I said, 'Do you think the 1938 Ford will ever come back?'

  

  Artie Shaw
  • Comeback
  • Swing

• We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Man
  • Honor
  • Random

• Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you've done since you left home.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Home
  • Things
  • Lucky

• I have often endeavoured to view the circulation of the blood in terrestrial animals, but without success, by reason that no parts of their bodies were sufficiently transparent.

  

  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
  • Success