Baekeland Bakelite Quotes

#1. Loving someone who can't love themselves is like pouring water into a bowl with a hole in the bottom. It can never stay filled.

Brownell Landrum

#2. Don't let negativity affect your vision. A lot of people have said harsh things, but I don't let it affect me. If anything it gives me more enthusiasm and pushes me to do better in my career so I can prove them wrong.

Nicole Polizzi

#3. Hell was OK, until some wise guy went to heaven and came back

Buddhadasa

#4. I think, with any new product that's difficult to understand, there are always lots of questions and criticism. I think we have all the right criticism. We're just going to keep executing on what we believe.

Evan Spiegel

#5. The story of life repeatedly assures you that if you will use what you have, you will be given more to use.

Zig Ziglar

#6. is he crazy?" --Harcourt-Brace editor on Holden Caulfield

J.D. Salinger

#7. I kind of was shoveled onto a boat at 11 and went to England. I didn't have any parent watching over me. It was very free and may have been a bit of a scary time for me, but I really don't remember much about the voyage apart from playing ping-pong a lot with a couple friends.

Michael Ondaatje

#8. I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.

Leo Baekeland

#9. I think there are crossroads in our lives when we make grand, sweeping decisions without even realizing it.

Jodi Picoult

#10. How few people will realize how much detail had to be gone into before Bakelite was a commercial success.

Leo Baekeland

#11. How could he live never knowing what it would be like to hold her close and sleep with her the whole night through?

Vonda Sinclair

#12. Then I was president of the Bakelite Corporation from 1910 to 1930.

Leo Baekeland