"Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty years of my life bent over my writing desk.""

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Source : Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Neely Swanson, Larry W. Swanson (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.64, MIT Press

Santiago Ramon y Cajal

#Writing Quotes #Science Quotes #Years Quotes

“Madame Michel has the elegance of the hedgehog: on the outside she is covered in quills, a real fortress, but my gut feeling is that on the inside, she has the same simple refinement as the hedgehog: a deceptively indolent little creature, fiercely solitary--and terrible elegant.”
“But once you strip that down, you realize it's all about a voice, like a Norah Jones - that's inspiring to me.”
“Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. It's what made it possible for me to go on, but you don't seem to realize that. Even when love is right there in front of you, you choose to turn away from it. You're alone because you want to be.”
“But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.”
“Be realistic with your expectations. I'd really like to cuddle a unicorn, but it aint going to happen.”
“Seungri sounds mournful while T.O.P has a masculine and husky voice. My voice is thin, just like when I talk”
“The measure of a man is not necessarily his title or his position, but rather how he treats others...”
“Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.”

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