Philip Emeagwali Quotes

My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.

Philip Emeagwali

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NatureFocusProblemsImportant

It's a great feeling knowing you've helped someone. That's what I've spent my life doing and my practice.

Joe Jamail

LifeGreatPracticeMy LifeDoing

The best thing I ever did was when I was offered a million dollars to go play in South Africa and didn't take it. I was 21 years old, and part of it was like, 'Well, if they're offering me this obscene amount of money just to play one match, there must be something really wrong.'

John McEnroe

BestMoneyMeWrongPlayGo

Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun.

John Hughes

WorkDaySimpleJobFunAdvertising

'The Blue Dragon' uses very filmic language and involves a lot of technology. It is more cinematic than theatrical and was inspired by comic strips and graphic novels.

Robert Lepage

TechnologyBlueLanguageMoreDragon

After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently turned to the Lord with inward breathings for his heavenly support, that I might not fail to follow him wheresoever he might lead me.

John Woolman

JourneyHeartSupportMeThoughts

Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.

Stanley Crouch

HumanityCollectiveDemocraticAble

I would like to learn so many things: I'd like to take tennis classes, I'd like continuing vocal lessons, and I'd definitely like taking more ice skating and more tap.

Sofia Vassilieva

LearnIceSkatingMoreTennisTake

Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality. In the cookery pages, the food always looks amazing, right? Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.

Martin Parr

FoodBestTravelPeopleAmazing

Law is born from despair of human nature.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

NatureLawLegalHuman NatureBorn

Every human being is searching for a deep sense of meaning, and yet we're all chasing success. We've confused one for the other.

Donald Miller

SuccessDeepConfusedMeaningHuman

I'm on the road constantly. I'm a nomad. I don't really have a home right now. I don't identify with one place in particular.

Daya

HomeRoadPlaceNowRightNomad

Sometimes I feel like what's hard for fashion designers to do is take looks from off the runway and actually put it into existence, into reality. That's really the hard part.

ASAP Rocky

FashionRealityFeelLooksSometimes

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