Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

I'm sometimes asked how I would like to be remembered. I've had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer, space promoter and science populariser. Of all these, I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.

Arthur C. Clarke

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• Imagination

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• I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • Together
  • Science
  • Myself

• I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Work
  • School
  • Career

• I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Power
  • Career
  • Thought

• I find it difficult to turn down an entrepreneur who's both passionate and knowledgeable about their space.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Space
  • Down
  • Entrepreneur

• In my career, I'm always trying to do something different.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Career

• Toasting is basically what you call rapping. It came off of playing the beats at the parties, however it be. You find a space in the beat, and you have somebody live just basically saying rhymes over the beat.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Live
  • Space
  • Saying

• I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Years

• The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Time
  • Career
  • House

• It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Space
  • Understand
  • Far

• We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Science
  • Wine
  • Season

• Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • America
  • Imagination
  • Size

• Tokyo in the late 1960s seemed to be like one of the futures that science fiction presents. Here was the proto- super-technology of the future, electronically, robotically, blahblahblah, intercut with traditional Japanese cultural patterns, Shinto patterns.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Future
  • Science
  • Technology

• In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Great
  • Giving
  • Education

• All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Energy

• Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Science
  • Internet
  • Modern

• If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.

  

  Randy West
  • Real
  • Game
  • Career

• I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Career
  • Successful
  • Fame

• The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Play
  • Imagination
  • Debt

• 'Conservation' (the conservation law) means this ... that there is a number, which you can calculate, at one moment-and as nature undergoes its multitude of changes, this number doesn't change. That is, if you calculate again, this quantity, it'll be the same as it was before. An example is the conservation of energy: there's a quantity that you can calculate according to a certain rule, and it comes out the same answer after, no matter what happens, happens.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Nature
  • Science
  • Energy

• Two gold medals and two silver, I don't think is that bad... I think I still did a pretty good job.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Good
  • Job
  • Bad

• At this particular time, I probably am more comfortable with myself. Just now I'm having a lovely time.

  

  Keira Knightley
  • Time

• I am a human being. I started out with virtually nothing. I worked my way up like so many businesspeople have and made ourselves great in this country. And that is what we have to make sure we preserve for our grandchildren and future generations all the way through.

  

  Douglas R. Oberhelman
  • Up
  • Great
  • Country

• I'm sometimes asked how I would like to be remembered. I've had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer, space promoter and science populariser. Of all these, I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Career
  • Science
  • Space