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John Polanyi Quotes

If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: hungarian
Birth: January 23, 1929

Topics

Experience People Treasure Real Own

One moment you appear to be riding the crest of a wave, only to have the rug pulled away from you, bringing you back down to earth with a sickening thud.

Moment Wave You Back Down Earth

I write totally spontaneously. I actually write fiction by hand - that always seems to startle people. I think the reason I do that is to bypass the thinking part of me and get to the more unconscious part, which is where all the good ideas seem to be.

Good People Me Ideas Think Thinking

I get impatient with people working on a film that have their head in their hands like it's the most complicated thing in the world.

People World Hands Complicated Head

For a while, the world for me was like a set of monkey bars. I swung from one place to the next, sometimes backward, sometimes forward, capitalizing on my own momentum, knowing that at some point my arms... would give out, and I'd fall to the ground.

Amanda Lindhout

Me World Forward Momentum Fall

I think a lot of people still fantasise about that first love and what might happen if they rekindled the relationship.

Sophie Kinsella

Love Relationship People Think First

The Democrats need to remind people of where were, in terms of our progress, as markers against where we are, and where we've fallen, and how we've declined under Bush.

Sidney Blumenthal

Progress People Need Democrats Where

When I was younger, out in public, I never wanted to pop my hip and definitely made sure that my wrist was nice and firm. All these silly, prohibitive things.

Silly Nice Never Out Things Sure

I know most people always thank people for believing in them - I actually want to thank people that didn't believe in me.

People Me Believe Know Believing

We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart, consumerist choices about their own health care.

Health Smart Choices Care Now Plans

For me, writing a historical novel was really hard. I love history as a subject and majored in it in college. I think, in a way, my training made it worse for me because I knew how important it was to focus on document-based analysis, and I really didn't want to get stuff wrong.

Love History Focus Training College

I felt like I was flying without a net. But once I realized that the audience was my partner, I was flying a jet, because the people would allow me to develop the character on stage.

Character People Me Flying Partner

If there wasn't any business and it was just strictly basketball, then there would be no issue, it would probably be done by now. But the team has to protect.

Business Team Basketball Done Now

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