Fred Kavli Quotes

Basic research is to work at the very edge, the very border of, of knowledge, and move that border forward. You look and look for new secrets, and you don't know where it's going to lead you.

Fred Kavli

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: businessman
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 20, 1927 - November 21, 2013

Topics

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And I think that Africa is making progress that the world needs to recognize and assist the continent to continue on that path.

John Dramani Mahama

PathProgressWorldThinkAfrica

Sometimes, you're just moved by people's journeys.

Melvyn Bragg

PeopleYouSometimesJustMoved

The calendar and the clock are all set by football season and the offseason.

Tom Coughlin

FootballCalendarClockSeasonSet

There definitely isn't a structure anymore to how I get ideas. A lot of times I'll just write down a phrase, or I'll have an idea that's attached to just a few chords. Other times, it's work.

Ryan Adams

WorkIdeasDownWriteStructureGet

There is no substitute for hard work. There is a little luck along the way, but there is no substitute for really super-hard work, first in, last out.

Mary Callahan Erdoes

WorkHard WorkLuckWayFirstHard

I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable.

Louis Leakey

WaterBackHeadAnatomyBulletNeck

Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.

Desmond Morris

LifeDeathShortBirthLikeBetween

When I was growing up, my father helped kindle my passion for innovation and technology. He was a high-ranking executive at AT&T and used our family dinner table as a focus group.

Denise Morrison

FamilyFatherTechnologyPassion

People always think that if you eat anything as a model, it's amazing. I used to tease them and say, you know I'm going to throw up afterwards.

Christy Turlington

PeopleAmazingThinkYouKnowSay

I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.

Sydney Pollack

MoviesMeanHardPrettySomething

I got the whole band set up in the basement and we are jamming.

Sebastian Bach

BandUpGotWholeSetJamming

With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it's sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It's really not true.

Tina Yothers

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