Transmutations 1985 Quotes

#1. If you learn how to master yourself, you stand a good chance of learning how to master your job.

Auliq Ice

#2. We are moved by self-interest, even when we seek to do good to others.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#3. We often feel the most stress, or the most emotionally hijacked, when we stare into the void of our jam-packed to-do list, in-box, or desk top. One look at the towering pile of papers looming on our desk, or the 300 unread e-mails, and our feelings of control fly right out the window.

Shawn Achor

#4. The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.

Albert Einstein

#5. For the first time I was flying by jet propulsion. No engine vibrations. No torque and no lashing sound of the propeller. Accompanied by a whistling sound, my jet shot through the air. Later when asked what it felt like, I said, "It felt as though angels were pushing".

Adolf Galland

#6. By the way, don't you think shoving a light bulb up baby Jesus' butt and plugging it in is just a little sacrilegious?

Dana Marie Bell

#7. Both of the twins exhibited a sort of prized Wisconsin Aryan-ness that excused them from blame for almost any caper. they looked liked the protagonists from a Disney movie but behaved like After School Specials.

Josh Kilmer-Purcell

#8. See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.

John Sladek

#9. I'm a just a mom when I walk down the street.

Alice Barrett

#10. I am a tree in the forest, moving very slowly, only barely touched by the wind. Everyone else just moves past me, and I watch them go, because I cannot be moved from who I am.

Ned Hayes

#11. I not only rejoice, but congratulate my beloved country Texas is reannexed, and the safety, prosperity, and the greatest interest of the whole Union is secured by this great and important national act.

Andrew Jackson

#12. Unity is plural and, at a minimum, is two.

R. Buckminster Fuller