Laboratory Quotes

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician:
he is also a child confronting natural phenomena
that impress him as though they were fairy tales.
- Marie Curie

I have no dress except the one I wear every day.
If you are going to be kind enough to give me one,
please let it be practical and dark
so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.
- Marie Curie

Most people say that is it is the intellect
which makes a great scientist.
They are wrong: it is character.
- Albert Einstein

A worker in the rural reconstruction must have:
The body of an athlete
The attitude of a teacher
The mind of a scientist
The heart of a missionary
The spirit of a crusader.
- Jimmy Yen

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
- Isaac Newton
(discoverer of the laws of gravitation and motion,
famous mathematician, and perhaps the greatest scientist ever)

To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran

People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung

When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie

You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa

A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James

I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage

We work with the people not out of pity
but out of respect for their potential for growth and development,
both as individuals and as communities.
- Jimmy Yen

People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus

Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer

Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard

To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha

Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein

What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead

A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu

By not caring too much about what people think,
I'm able to think for myself
and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular.
And I succeed.
- Albert Ellis

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.
I challenge you to join the ranks of those people
who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
- Tony Robbins

The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung

An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith

Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank

I look to a day when people will not be judged
by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar

What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau

Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher

Reputation is what other people know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold

Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie

People love chopping wood.
In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein

Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins

If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France

Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)

People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar

In matters of truth and justice,
there is no difference between large and small problems,
for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
- Albert Einstein

People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker

Don't ask yourself what the world needs;
ask yourself what makes you come alive.
And then go and do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman

People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa

Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver

Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton

Many people allow their need
for other people's approval to control their lives.
They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
- Rick Warren

In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank

The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli

If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln

A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton

Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes

Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing

Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie