Ahmed Zewail Quotes
On Sunday August 5, 2012, I was among a group of people who witnessed the Rover landing on Mars in real time at NASA's Caltech-managed Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
![Ahmed Zewail](http://cdn.citatis.com/img/a/13/8691.v2.jpg)
Quotes to Explore
-
I talk every day about doing the right thing.
-
You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
-
Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
-
The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
-
Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
-
I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.
-
Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
-
People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
-
I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
-
What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
-
Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
-
I'm not the girl next door.
-
When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
-
People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
-
I'm very tomboy, and I'm inspired by hip hop artists.
-
Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your own film again are zero. You make the films that the studio wants you to make.
-
When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark diving because even though we were in cages, we literally could touch the sharks swimming by. They were huge and I'm terrified of sharks. Then I went to a wildlife park and held kangaroos. That was nice.
-
It is incredibly important to set goals for your business, as if you have no direction for your business, your online business will be a failure.
-
Sarah Palin's a quitter.
-
I don't mind cold water. I mean, it's fine. Wetsuits will serve you these days; it doesn't really matter.
-
When one is the type of writer who cares about the meaning of the historically specific setting, the history itself is not something that I would call backdrop. It's not window dressing for a timeless relationship about love and betrayal. For me, the setting and the specific history are active co-agents with me in trying to form the novel.
-
They said I rap like a robot, so call me rapbot.
-
On Sunday August 5, 2012, I was among a group of people who witnessed the Rover landing on Mars in real time at NASA's Caltech-managed Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.