Research Supervision Quotes

#1. scepticism by means of classical arguments, the most effective means initially to promote arousal. And,

Peter Unger

#2. Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd

Albert Camus

#3. When we hesitate to change on time, we predispose ourselves to miss the boat that would take us to our envious future...

Assegid Habtewold

#4. They [the Labour Party] are not fit to manage a whelk stall.

Winston Churchill

#5. The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#6. I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead.

Charles A. Lindbergh

#7. [Somali maritime violence] is a response to greedy Western nations, who invade and exploit Somalia's water resources illegally. It is not a piracy, it is self defence. It is defending the Somalia children's food.

Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#8. It seems hardly possible to analyse such a complex situation involving deceit and supposition of another person's emotional response, and then prepare your own plausible lie, all while someone is waiting for you to reply to a question. Yet that is exactly what people expect you to be able to do.

Graeme Simsion

#9. It is precisely because we believe in democracy as a talisman, a heal-all, that we are prone to the disintegration of language that characterizes Life Under Compulsion. It

Anthony Esolen

#10. We believed it was not our formations that made us good, but rather how we played.

Tony Dungy

#11. I have to not take myself too seriously and I have to realise that if it is meant to be, it will be.

Teresa Palmer

#12. He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. Sometimes I feel so alone in the world. A tiny speck of nothing in a sea of emptiness.

Edwyna Hughes

#14. I wanted to prove that a son of a politician can be a successful businessman.

Sunil Mittal

#15. The events leading to the discovery of tunnelling supercurrents took place while I was working as a research student at the Royal Society Mond Laboratory, Cambridge, under the supervision of Professor Brian Pippard.

Brian Josephson

#16. On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnight.

Marion Zimmer Bradley