Edward Lawrie Tatum Quotes

This was before the universality of need for the B vitamins, and the enzymatic basis of this requirement, had been clearly defined.

Edward Lawrie Tatum

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• Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Trying

• The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Person
  • Years
  • First

• If you really want to step up your team's creative thinking, take a hard look at how many people you're putting in a room together. More than three to five is probably too many.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• When I was growing up as a young lesbian in the '50s, I looked in vain for books about my people. I did find some paperbacks with lurid covers in the local bus station, but they ended with the gay character's committing suicide, dying in a car crash, being sent to a mental hospital, or 'turning' heterosexual.

  

  Nancy Garden
  • People
  • Up
  • Character

• It's true. In America, you can reinvent yourself at any turn. And, you know, if things aren't going well for you in life, everyone says, change, become someone different.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • Life
  • Different
  • America

• I've been a free man.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Man
  • Free
  • Been

• No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses.

  

  Edward Livingston
  • Suffering
  • Slavery

• As an artist, you have to work hard for things that you can't really hold in your hand. I work not for money but for my career, to expand myself as an artist. Every video I make, it's not making me any money; it's just because I want to expand.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Work
  • Money
  • Career

• When I was very young, I started trying to sing like the great tenor Mario Lanza; my family used to play his records. We all learn best by imitating others.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Family

• Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.

  

  Jesse Ventura

• I grew up with a posh English accent, and all my aunts sounded as if they came out of a Merchant Ivory movie.

  

  Kevin Kwan
  • Up
  • Movie
  • English

• We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.

  

  Lenny Kravitz
  • Kids
  • Relationship
  • Technology

• We're kind of doing what Bob McAllister did with 'Wonderama,' which is making people realize that kids are people, too.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • People
  • Kids
  • Realize

• Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • Why
  • Comedy
  • Sarcastic

• I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.

  

  David Levithan
  • Mind
  • Lost

• Yes, the Masters is too stylish to be an American icon. It's as out of character for Uncle Sam as a McDonald's is for France.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Character
  • American
  • Uncle

• We shouldn't romanticize rejection. There's nothing romantic about rejection. It's horrible.

  

  Marlon James
  • Romantic
  • Rejection

• The 'No.1 IT company' isn't by volume, it's in relation to business customers because those are my customers, not the consumer. Who do they view as their most important partner? That's my definition of the 'No.1 IT company.'

  

  John T. Chambers
  • Important
  • Business
  • Partner

• The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Hurt
  • Prejudice
  • Self-Doubt

• One of my favorite things about watching the reruns is looking at my clothes. I don't really remember most of them, so it's like looking at old family photos.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • Family
  • Remember
  • Clothes

• Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • World
  • Quality
  • Doubt

• Feeling bad is not a requirement; it’s something we agree to. Cut it loose!

  

  Cheri Huber
  • Bad
  • Feeling
  • Agree

• I try to stay in shape, I work out in the gym, take my vitamins every day, and I guess maybe I have some good genes, but lately Ive been feeling it. You know, after all these years it does catch up with you. But just for now.

  

  Regis Philbin
  • Feeling
  • Try
  • Catch

• This was before the universality of need for the B vitamins, and the enzymatic basis of this requirement, had been clearly defined.

  

  Edward Lawrie Tatum
  • Vitamins
  • Requirement
  • Enzymatic