Vladimir K. Zworykin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I didn't even dream it would be so good. But I would never let my children come close to the thing.
-- Vladimir K. Zworykin

#Dream #Children #Learning
You can enjoy encouragement coming from outside, but you cannot need for it to come from outside.
-- Vladimir K. Zworykin

#Encouragement #Acceptance #Needs
It is what you are inside that matter. You, yourself, are your only real capital.
-- Vladimir K. Zworykin

#Real #Matter
Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try, and perhaps failing.
-- Vladimir K. Zworykin

#Trying #Failing #Protect

One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy.
You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer...the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe.
Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.
Everything. I have done everything you wanted...You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me. I was frightening...I have reordered time...I have turned the world upside down...And I have done it all for you. I am exhausted from living up to your expectations.
If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
If you desire ease, forsake learning.

Vladimir K. Zworykin famous quotes

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