Biomedicine Impact Quotes & Sayings

Csikszentmihalyi identified four "preconditions" of flow: first, each moment of the activity must have a little goal; second, the rules for attaining that goal must be clear; third, the activity must give immediate feedback so that one has certainty, from moment to moment, on where one stands; fourth, the tasks of the activity must be matched with operational skills, bestowing a sense of simultaneous control and challenge. — Natasha Dow Schull

A clearer and more conventional narrative would have helped the film without, in my opinion, lessening its beauty and its impact. Frankly, I'm still trying to figure out what I'm doing there and what I was supposed to add in that context! What's more, Terry himself never managed to explain it to me clearly. — Sean Penn

I prefer that,' said Aimeric, quickly. 'I mean that I prefer to be part of a company that can fight. I'm a fourth son. I admire hard work just as . . . I admire men who can rise above their birth.' He said that last with a look at Jord. Damen wisely made his excuses and rose, leaving them alone together. * — C.S. Pacat

She stopped, and he knew she had caught herself, dismayed a what she had been about to reveal. [Nicole Dubois] — Stephen Lloyd Jones

How can I stand on the ground every day and not feel its power? How can I live my life stepping on this stuff and not wonder at it? — William Logan

I'll go gentle, baby," he whispered against my lips. "I promise. You'll always be safe with me."
Oh. My.
"Mitch," I breathed.
His soulful eyes held mine captive as he repeated firmly, "Always. — Kristen Ashley

Telecoms is a national business. There isn't a European market. There's no Telecom Italia in France. — Xavier Niel

Failing to continue to support the public higher-ed system in California will have devastating long-term consequences. — Mitch Kapor

This thing called love was a total mystery to me, but the vagaries of passion and despair that accompanied each devotion kept my life in high drama. — Jane Alexander

Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but its virtue is as silent method; the moment it would appear as propositions, and have a separate value, it is worthless. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

How many presidents, do you think, ever said to another guy: 'I can't believe we're doing this in the White House'? — Greg Behrendt

You know, there's something heartsick about parties like this. Look at us. We're all pretending to be smart, as if intelligence were the cure for our anguish. — Charles Baxter

Good advice is hard to find and even harder to accept. Accept it anyway. One day, you'll wake up and wish you had done it sooner. — Kevin Breel