John Polanyi Quotes

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

John Polanyi

Recitation: by Male by Female

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KnowledgeMindFactsOnlyPopular

I want to be an actress, not a personality.

Jill Clayburgh

PersonalityWantActress

Having spent many years working in New York's Chinatown restaurants early in my career, I have the utmost respect for the history and connection New Yorkers have with Chinese cuisine.

Andrew Cherng

HistoryRespectEarlyCareerNew

I do get bottled up in interviews. You're thinking about what you're saying, and suddenly you get all tangled. So people think I'm sullen, or that I don't have much to say. But my friends will tell you: a lot of times I talk too much.

Matt Dillon

PeopleSayingThinkThinkingFriends

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

Jeff Bezos

BusinessReputationBrandTryingYou

The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.

Tom Stoppard

HappyLovedBeingEnglishFactVery

When I'm using the Internet, I have 25 tabs open, and even if somebody sends me... something interesting, odds are I'll forget about it, or it'll get kind of lost in the shuffle.

Robin Sloan

MeInternetInterestingLostForget

Children need to have both time to think and the motivation to think for themselves, to develop an expert reading brain, before the digital mode dominates their reading. The immediacy and volume of information should not be confused with true knowledge.

Maryanne Wolf

KnowledgeChildrenTimeBrainThink

In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

SayGloomyAtmosphereWouldVery

I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.

Louise Penny

LoveLonelinessHateCompassionMe

Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.

Juice Newton

PersonalitySimpleMeChanceFeel

A Charlie Brown Christmas' is a national treasure because it delivers beautifully the central miracle of Christmas: Emmanuel - God With Us. From the wood of the manger to the wood of the cross.

Don Willett

GodTreasureWoodChristmasMiracle

What's important is self-appreciation.

Donnie Wahlberg

Important

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