"Success, however you judge what that even means, brings with it certain pressures."

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Source : “John Simm interview: 'I don't really do awards'” by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com.

John Simm

#Mean Quotes #Judging Quotes #Pressure Quotes

“I think there's huge room for a personality who can create a following, and that personality can be a person or a company.”
“Severe illness isolates those in close contact with it, because it inevitably narrows the focus of concern. To a certain extent this can lead to healing, but not if the circle of concern is so tight that it cannot be broken into, or out of.”
“The amount of money that a person has in his bank account is not determined by his starting capital but by his knowledge about money and his ability to manage it properly.”
“I realized very early in life what my abilities and limitations were, and foreign languages was definitely one of my limitations. With strenuous effort, I just barely passed my French class at Harvard so I could graduate.”
“Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some modern writers, when he came to compare them with their originals, he was surprised to find that they were nothing for his purpose! the originals conveyed a quite contrary sense to that of the pretended quoters, who often, from innocent blundering, and sometimes from purposed deception, had falsified their quotations. This is an useful story for second-hand authorities!”
“I would, like any other scientist, willingly change my mind if the evidence led me to do so. So I care about what's true, I care about evidence, I care about evidence as the reason for knowing what is true. It is true that I come across rather passionate sometimes and that's because I am passionate about the truth. ... I do get very impatient with humbug, with cant, with fakery, with charlatans.”
“It would not become physical science to see in its self created, changeable, economical tools, molecules and atoms, realities behind phenomena... The atom must remain a tool for representing phenomena.”
“Elysium is as far as to The very nearest room, If in that room a friend await Felicity of doom.”

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