John R. Platt famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late.
-- John R. Platt

#Carpe Diem #Ideas #Years
We speak piously of ... making small studies that will add another brick to the temple of science. Most such bricks just lie around the brickyard.
-- John R. Platt

#Lying #Add #Bricks
Going to the moon is not a matter of physics but of economics.
-- John R. Platt

#Moon #Matter #Physics

How can we turn our back on an endeavor which increases our children's cultural intelligence, heightens individual sensitivity and deepens our collective sense of humanity? I suggest to you that we cannot.
Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run
The arts, instead of quaking along the periphery of our policy concerns, must push boldly into the core of policy. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature and help to shape our identity. The arts are not a frill and should not be treated as such. They have the potential to become the driving force for healing division and divisiveness.
Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.
I always wanted to be a young mom, but generations of women have worked so hard so we can have a career and wait to have children. So I say carpe diem - take advantage of that.
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.
A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.
One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.

John R. Platt famous quotes

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