Leffetto Fotoelettrico Quotes & Sayings

In some domains it looks as though our identical twins reared apart are ... just as similar as identical twins reared together. Now that's an amazing finding and I can assure you none of us would have expected that degree of similarity. — Thomas J. Bouchard Jr.

I connect fashion to other peoples' elegance, but not my own. I don't think I've ever felt elegant. I've felt appropriate, but never elegant, and I wonder what that must be like. I like it when other people are elegant - I prefer it - but I can't do it myself. I honestly think it's some form of autistic disorder. — Douglas Coupland

If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of a story; if it be difficult, couple its acquisition with some prospect of personal gain. Above all things, make sure that it shall run through certain inner changes, since no unvarying object can possibly hold the mental field for long. Let your pupil wander from one aspect to another of your subject, if you do not wish him to wander from it altogether to something else, variety in unity being the secret of all interesting talk and thought. — William James

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence ... on pain of liquidation — George Bernard Shaw

You can take a pitchman and make a great actor out of him, but you cannot take an actor and always make a great pitchman out of him," he says. The pitchman must make you applaud and take out your money. He must be able to execute what in pitchman's parlance is called "the turn" - the perilous, crucial moment where he goes from entertainer to businessman. — Malcolm Gladwell

The sensations of colors on the palette can be spiritual experiences. — Wassily Kandinsky

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence. — John Quincy Adams

A breath of our inspiration / Is the life of each generation ... — Arthur O'Shaughnessy

He that is fallen cannot helpe him that is downe.
[He that is fallen cannot help him that is down.] — George Herbert

I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a huge fan of. — Gary Cole