"I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels."

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Source : Ahmed H. Zewail (2002). “Voyage Through Time: Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize”, p.72, World Scientific

Ahmed H. Zewail

#Achievement Quotes #Reason Quotes #Laurels Quotes

“You should not separate your life from what you do.”
“I have about as much control over how I look as the guy who's short and looks more like a character actor - we both have the same drive to be actors and we both have the same drive to assume these different characters, it's just harder for me to get the chance because they look at me and say, 'Oh, he's this type,' and they stamp me.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I was not really angry: I felt for him all the time, and longed to be reconciled; but I determined he should make the first advances, or at least show some signs of an humble and contrite spirit, first; for, if I began, it would only minister to his self-conceit, increase his arrogance, and quite destroy the lesson I wanted to give him.”
“If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins.”
“Everybody is not going to be squeaky clean. All the guys they are giving these marketing endorsement deals are the ones going out there getting in trouble. That is what is really puzzling to me. They will take a chance on the so-called "good image guy" and they are the ones that go out there and screw it all up. You have not seen my face go across the screen for any off the field problems, period.”
“The audience is the most revered member of the theater. Without an audience, there is no theater. Everything done is ultimately for the enjoyment of the audience. They are our guests, fellow players, and the last spoke in the wheel which can then begin to roll. They make the performance meaningful.”
“But there is one thing you must remember, if you forget all else. There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own vision. All changes in the blink of an eyelid; yet all remains the same.”
“Oddly, the most freeing thing we can ever do is to abdicate the throne of our own miniature kingdoms.”

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