"Never be the brightest person in the room."

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Source : James Watson: How we discovered DNA, TED talk, February 2005.

James D. Watson

#Rooms Quotes #Persons Quotes

“What I had later learned was that the FBI knew I was going to New York a couple days after the raid.”
“Perhaps sometimes we have self-serving sense that we often experience when we believe we know better than our boss, our teacher, our spouse or partner, our friends, our political leaders - if only they would listen to us!”
“I do come from a strong family.”
“You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair.”
“You should never, ever, let anyone tell you you're not good enough. You have a choice whether to meet others expectations of you, or strive to meet your own.”
“A quality person is someone with integrity. To be worthy of the highest trust is a noble attribute and compliment. You will need to maintain confidences. Certainly it is greater to be trusted than loved. Truly happy persons will always be totally honest in their dealings with their fellowman.”
“Any Organized social group is always a stratified social body. There has not been and does not exist any permanent social group which is "flat" and in which all members are equal.”

Source : Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin (1998). “Social Mobility”, p.12, Taylor & Francis
“When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.”

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