Sam Kean Quotes

On a submicro scale, pure diamond is billions of billions of carbon atoms bonded to one another. If you shrunk yourself down and stood inside the diamond, you'd see nothing but carbon in a perfect pattern in every direction.

Sam Kean

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YourselfDirectionYouPerfectDown

I went to high school in Texas for one year, my senior year. My parents wanted me to get out of Stockholm because I was running with the wrong crew. They wanted me to get back to my roots.

Joel Kinnaman

SchoolParentsMeRootsHigh School

At Dell, we believe the customer is in control, and our job is to take all the technology that's out there and apply it in a useful way to meet the customer's needs.

Michael Dell

TechnologyJobControlBelieveMeet

The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?

Alva Noto

WorkCreativityQuestionsLogicCome

It's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.

Amanda Bynes

GoodGreatEndInterestingYouKnow

A priest once said to me, 'Think of a priest going to the altar as you walk out on the stage.' I would hate to think that anyone thought I was coming to preach. But art and music open up things that you can't put into words. It's about bringing joy when you go out there.

Stephen Hough

MusicArtHateWalkWordsJoy

My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.

Martin Scorsese

FatherNew YorkMeNewOldThieves

Narcissism is just self-confidence.

Mirai Nagasu

Self-ConfidenceNarcissismJust

I felt very comfortable playing Don Draper, because I knew that Don Draper is a character - that Dick Whitman is playing Don Draper. I felt very comfortable in that manufactured-confidence mode. He himself is manufacturing it.

Jon Hamm

CharacterComfortableManufacturing

It's not just professional athletes and soldiers who are at risk from traumatic brain injury. More than 1.7 million people a year sustain a traumatic brain injury, and about 50,000 of them die each year, according the Centers for Disease Control. There are both emotional and financial costs from these injuries.

Anne Wojcicki

PeopleBrainControlFinancialYear

If I ever grow up, I don't want to be around for it.

Sebastian Bach

GrowWantGrow UpUpAroundEver

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.

Thomas S. Monson

IntegrityRespectTestSelf-Respect

I counseled many returning missionaries. I interviewed 1,700 missionaries all over the world. My advice to them is that you should study and prepare for your life's work in a field that you enjoy.

Thomas S. Monson

LifeWorkWorldAdviceEnjoyYou

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