"Winning the prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself."

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Maria Goeppert-Mayer

#Winning Quotes #Effectiveness Quotes #Half Quotes

“Coming from bad results, you have more tension and you get more into the game, maybe. You never know which is best. I prefer to come from good results. You have more confidence and you believe you are doing things well. But in football everything can change very quickly.”
“I run because I enjoy it â€” not always, but most of the time. I run because I have always run â€” not trained, but run. What do I get? Joy and pain. Good health and injuries. Exhilaration and despair. A feeling of accomplishment and a feeling of waste. The sunrise and the sunset.”
“No one loves the man whom he fears.”
“I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team.”
“The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in scale. I cannot conceive of a better book about Capitol Hill. An unforgettable, epic achievement in the art of biography.”
“[Identity liberalism] says, on the one hand, you can never understand me because you are not exactly the kind of person I've defined myself to be. And on the other hand, you must recognize me and feel for me. Well, if you're so different that I'm not able to get into your head and I'm not able to experience or sympathize with what you experience, why should I care?”
“American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.”
“Everyone's brain works in a different way. I didn't feel smart in school; I just didn't get it. I thought I was an idiot. Until I got out.”

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