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Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quotes

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: indian
Birth: 1951

Topics

Creative Pressure You Outside Minute

The most stupid mistake a counter-insurgency operation can make is alienating the population. If you alienate the population, you're finished.

Mistake Stupid You Population Most

Step on the moist, pillowsoft earth, walking gingerly aside a weeping steam that calls your name, for it knows how to heal a wounded heart.

Maximillian Degenerez

Heart Step Name Walking Earth Steam

What happens if you are the last (the very, very last) of your species, and you die - and humans notice? We live, increasingly, at a time when extinctions are recorded, remembered, and the last animal (or plant) in its line, by virtue of its being last, becomes a kind of celebrity. Its finality becomes a thing to honor.

Robert Krulwich

Live Time Animal Plant Honor Die

'Old Dominion' is the nickname for the state of Virginia, and four of us have ties to Virginia.

Old Us Four Virginia State Dominion

I learned in high school that I was going to have to outwork people. I remember running around the track, training for football, and a faster guy ran past me. I just figured, I can outlast him. If I work harder than him, I'll beat him. And to this day I overprepare.

Work Day Football Past Training Me

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.

Sometimes See I See Paint Situations

I go stay a week in these little towns that don't have an art outlet and... go to the schools and play some of the old Texas music, sort of 'go through the Texas country roots' is what they call it.

Music Art Roots Texas Week Play

America's military allow the rest of us to do what we do.

Chris Stapleton

Rest America Military Us Allow

There's a truth to the violence of boxing. You have a very real threat, an opponent.

Truth Violence You Boxing Real Very

'Doctor Who' has a certain amount of showbiz attached to it.

Doctor Who Showbiz Attached Certain

In the '70s, the newspaper guild managed to get people paid what they were worth, but the reporters suddenly became middle class. It's much more respectable, more uptight, and everyone speaks in guarded tones. And the writing isn't as good. We always had guys who were failed poets and failed novelists who did it to eat.

Good People Writing Worth Class Eat

I was an officer in my student council.

Student Officer Council

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