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Leo Baekeland Quotes

Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars.

Leo Baekeland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: inventor
Nationality: belgian
Birth: November 14, 1863 - February 23, 1944

Topics

Kind Plastic Photograph Paper Well

I think I have a pretty goofy profile for a writer. It seems to me most writers were reading 'Little Women' when they were 6 months old. At the age of a lot of my readers, I wanted to be a major league baseball player. I didn't read much.

Jerry Spinelli

Women Age Baseball Me Reading Think

All companies can benefit from fostering a more flexible environment (creating a place where the most talented, industrious, and entrepreneurial people want to work) and relinquishing hierarchical control to favor a results-oriented meritocracy.

Maynard Webb

Work People Control Environment Want

What is important, I think, is to reach as many people as you can and do it as well as you can. Reach them and inspire them or amuse them, or maybe in some odd moments help them to discover something they hadn't thought of before.

Max von Sydow

People Inspire Think Thought Help

Black English is something which - it's a natural system in itself. And even though it is a dialect of English, it can be very difficult for people who don't speak it, or who haven't been raised in it, to understand when it's running by quickly, spoken in particular by young men colloquially to each other. So that really is an issue.

John McWhorter

Men People Speak Black Young System

Organized crime and rogue nation states and terrorists are very much focused on the Internet of things. The challenge that goes with connectivity is always security. The bad guys go wherever the return is, and now it's more lucrative for bad guys to focus on cybercrime than traditional crime.

John T. Chambers

Challenge Focus Internet Security Go

I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends.

Rooney Mara

School Up Little Weekends Suburbs

I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.

Dick Cavett

Think Surprise Reaction Over How

I miss my pre-Internet brain, but that doesn't help anything. We can only go forward.

Douglas Coupland

Brain Forward Help Go Anything Miss

I love Alexander McQueen. I like the construction of his suits. I think it's fantastic.

Donatella Versace

Love Construction Think Suits Like

I feel a different person in a lot of ways. I feel much more professional and dedicated to my trade than I used to be. I appreciate this ability I've got - and don't take it for granted any more. That fits every aspect of my life now.

Bradley Wiggins

Life Appreciate Feel My Life Person

I'm not very articulate. The reason I write is because I don't talk.

Bobbie Ann Mason

Talk Write Reason Because Very

I feel like the albums I grew up listening to - for example, Eminem, Lauryn Hill, Christina Aguilera - they all spoke about real stuff that was happening in their life and everyone else's life.

Anne-Marie

Life Listening Feel Hill Real Up