Post Doc Quotes

#1. I was creating commitment devices of my own long before I knew what they were. So when I was a starving post-doc at Columbia University, I was deep in a publish-or-perish phase of my career. I had to write five pages a day towards papers, or I would have to give up five dollars.

Daniel Goldstein

#2. Ambition and stupidity are a dangerous combination.

Dean Koontz

#3. Manners are not like bonbons, Nina. You may not choose the ones that suit you best; and you certainly cannot put the half-bitten ones back in the box. . . ." Nina

Amor Towles

#4. I started working on ribosomes when I was a post doc, in 1978, when it would have been impossible, really, to solve it. But, it was just a fundamental problem in biology.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

#5. For a player to be good enough to play for Liverpool, he must be prepared
to run through a brick wall for me then come out fighting on the other side.

Bill Shankly

#6. If a child, a spouse, a life partner, or a parent depends on you and your income, you need life insurance.

Suze Orman

#7. I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

Peter Greenaway

#8. I swear to Vishnu, if this doesn't work, I'm going to stab you in the throat with a Pipette.

Kyoko M.

#9. Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.

Albert Camus

#10. Embrace your life, count your blessings, and don't complain about what you don't have.

Joyce Meyer

#11. If you ever fall for a woman, make sure she's got balls.

Matt Forbeck

#12. I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. Lone at night, when I was twelve years old, I looked at the planet Mars and I said, 'Take me home!' And the planet Mars took me home, and I never came back. So I've written every day in the last 75 years. I've never stopped writing.

Ray Bradbury

#14. On film Vanilla Sky: You're going to get the full experience of what love is.

Tom Cruise