"It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure."

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Gregory Benford

#Pleasure Quotes #Made Quotes #Results Quotes

“Man, some open doors were not welcoming, and that was so the case hereâ€”less hi-howâ€™re-ya, more come-in-so-your-skin-can-be-used-to-make-a-super-hero-cape-for-one-of-Hannibal-Lecterâ€™s-patients.”
“There were certainly things I was scared to do, but I never thought I wasn't up for the challenge.”

Source : "Rooney Mara Talks 'Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' Transformation" by Terri Schwartz, www.mtv.com. November 10, 2011.
“The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring.”

Source : "Sir Jonathan Ive: Knighted for services to ideas and innovation". Interview with Mark Prigg, www.independent.co.uk. March 13, 2012.
“Our solar system is fantastically bizarre. There are worlds with features we never imagined. Storms larger than planets, moons with under-surface oceans, lakes of methane, worldlets that swap places...and that's just at Saturn.”
“I'm always pretty tense about everything when it comes to work.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I'll work on patient's thoughts about sleep, "So I must get eight hours of sleep tonight or I won't sleep tomorrow." That sometimes - or "I won't function tomorrow." That sometimes makes it very difficult for you to sleep at night”
“There is no vice, of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excited so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbors, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor [can] humility mitigate.”
“A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn't learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.”

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