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Mildred Dresselhaus Quotes

Mentoring is about listening to people, helping them go over what the issues are and how to clarify ways to deal with any problems that may arise.

Mildred Dresselhaus

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 11, 1930 - February 20, 2017

Topics

People Listening Problems Mentoring

I've learned a lot about putting a show up in Vegas. You can't just all of a sudden put up a show here and do well. Nobody does.

Vegas You Nobody Up Here Well

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.

Community Intelligence Think Lonely

At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter.

School College High School High

I love Led Zeppelin!

Love Led Zeppelin Led I Love

I grew up under the British system, which I think is horrific for children - very, very strict - a system that did not recognize children as being individuals. You were small animals earning the right to be human.

Lorraine Toussaint

Children Small Think You Animals Up

The government has made $44 trillion in promises we can't afford to keep. We must get serious now about our long-term budgetary problems, recognizing that the sooner we act, the less painful the choices will be.

Government Promises Choices Problems

You can imagine sitting in a room for three days talking about comic books, eight hours a day. It gets wacky and very nerdy. It also gets contentious at times.

Day Talking You Three Sitting Room

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

Life Experience Imagination Research

But I had no idea that they were going to pull the plug so quickly.

Going Idea Pull No Idea Quickly Had

Everywhere I go, I see all kinds of people at my shows - conservatives, liberals, new-agers, teen-agers, old pensioners. And for those people to have something in common is real interesting to me.

People Me Interesting Go Real See

I sometimes think it's like a weird elastic band. The more tragic your work is, the quicker you snap back. There's a catharsis in telling a miserable old tale; you get rid of demons.

Anne-Marie Duff

Work Think Weird Demons You Back

The pigeon here is a beautiful bird, of a delicate bronze colour, tinged with pink about the neck, and the wings marked with green and purple.

William John Wills

Beautiful Bird Green Pink Wings

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