David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.

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• In the course of the 1920s and 1930s, great progress was made in the study of the intermediary reactions by which sugar is anaerobically fermented to lactic acid or to ethanol and carbon dioxide.

  

  Hans Adolf Krebs
  • Great
  • Study
  • Progress

• When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Study

• Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.

  

  Ed Parker
  • Study
  • Create
  • Often

• When you are allowed to study different disciplines, you redefine your idea of success. You learn to appreciate multiple disciplines simultaneously and you learn that there is no one formula to anything.

  

  Lakshmi Pratury
  • Different
  • Success
  • Study

• Every child should get an opportunity to study irrespective of the economic status.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Opportunity
  • Study
  • Child

• I became a co-chair of the Congressional Study Group from Germany several years ago with the expressed purpose of helping increase aid to Holocaust survivors.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Purpose
  • Study
  • Years

• I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Good
  • Love
  • Study

• More than 13,000 Malaysians travel to the U.K. to study in British universities every year.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Study
  • Travel
  • Year

• I went to Paris for a year in 1986 to study theatre; there was a lot of clowning around, buffoonery and fencing. It was then that my own style kind of blossomed.

  

  Orla Brady
  • Style
  • Study
  • Theatre

• In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Up
  • Different
  • Study

• The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one. A Stanford study showed that those who saw a photo of their future self made smarter financial decisions.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Future
  • Respect
  • Friend

• Enzymologists usually study the initial rates of reactions measuring product formation as a function of substrate concentration or other variable. Cell biologists are more likely to want to know the effect of a change on the steady state behavior of a complex system.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • Want
  • Change
  • Study

• The study of nature is of no significance, for painting is a conventional art, and it is infinitely more worthwhile to learn to draw after w:Holbein.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Study

• I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.

  

  Alexander Alekhine
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  • Chess

• Our findings support many of the conclusions of the resource dependence theorists, who contend that a firm's scope for strategic change is strongly bounded by the interests of external entities (customers, in this study) who provide the resources the firm needs to survive.

  

  Clayton M. Christensen
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• As a kid, I just loved cartoons. And as the credits went by, I'd study those names and then try to figure how I could get hired to do what Mel Blanc and Daws Butler did. Create all of these great voices for animated characters.

  

  Jim Cummings
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• I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because of weeks of study, aided by the unusual synaesthesic way my mind perceives numbers as complex multidimensional coloured and textured shapes.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Mind
  • Study

• We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.

  

  Jared Diamond
  • History
  • Evil
  • Study

• I didn't go to a business school. I didn't really study it.

  

  Daniel S. Loeb
  • School
  • Business
  • Study

• For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine.

  

  Emanuel Swedenborg
  • World
  • Earth
  • Church

• I was raised Unitarian, and my mother said she took us to church so that we wouldn't get religious later in life.

  

  Andrew Sean Greer
  • Life
  • She
  • Mother

• I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • People
  • Truth
  • Pretty

• I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way. And but for the fact that it coincided with a landmark in my own physical growth, his death seemed insignificant compared to what followed.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Father
  • Death
  • Growth

• I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.

  

  David Bowie
  • Study
  • Buddhism
  • Tibetan