Papademetriou Quotes

#1. Action is what unites every great success. Action is what produces results. Knowledge is only potential power until it comes into the hands of someone who knows how to get himself to take effective action. In fact, the literal definition of the word "power" is "the ability to act.

Anthony Robbins

#2. Lester Germer was my first supervisor at Bell Labs. He was the Germer of the Davisson and Germer Experiment that is sometimes referred to in introductory texts on physics.

Willard Boyle

#3. Your mind is your only judge of truth-and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal.

John Galt

#4. It's always best to avoid strangling the person you're on a date with. No matter how crazy he makes you.

Lisa Papademetriou

#5. It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.

Mary Ritter Beard

#6. I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.

David Bailey

#7. She swore vengeance on all men with dark hearts.

Lisa Papademetriou

#8. Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.

Charles Bent

#9. Is not sorrow, all sorrow, selfish?

Abby May Alcott

#10. Patrick Kavanagh put it, preparing for life rather than living it.

John O'Donohue

#11. I graduated from my Master of Fine Arts program for writing for children and young adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Of course, for a master's program, you have to do a ton of reading. I would get up, usually around 5:30, to do my reading; otherwise, I would fall behind.

Lisa Papademetriou

#12. With usenet gone, we just don't teach our kids entertainment-level hyperbole any more.

Paul Vixie

#13. I read a lot of fantasy as a kid. I read 'The Hobbit' and all of the 'Lord of the Rings' books, but I also read a lot of realism like 'The Outsiders.'

Lisa Papademetriou

#14. In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity

Sun Tzu

#15. Your responsibility as an artist is to experiment.

Squarepusher

#16. What is she doing here? I wondered. Hasn't she had enough green-upping?

Lisa Papademetriou

#17. I was a huge rereader, so I've read all the Chronicles of Narnia, at minimum, 13 times each. In reading that series, I realized that someone had written those books, and that was that person's job. And I thought, 'That is the job for me. That is the job I'm going to have when I grow up.'

Lisa Papademetriou

#18. My grandmother was German. She was an immigrant, and my great grandfather fought in World War I and was stationed in France.

Lisa Papademetriou

#19. The blessing of a tragedy is that it puts your life into perspective.

Lisa Papademetriou