"Conversely, I came to realize that being good……" — Eric Allin Cornell
"Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it."
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21 Quotes by Eric Allin Cornell
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Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency…
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My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my…
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After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.
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My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.
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The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy…
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Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.
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The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.
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Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the…
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It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years…
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Keep everything in perspective if you wish to be happy. For example... Losing an arm is more an inconvenience than…
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With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.
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I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder…
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More Avoid Quotes
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
— Aristotle
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid…
— Margaret Atwood
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I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid…
— Paul Auster
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Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.
— Richard Bach
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I'd love to remain a secret and still work, but I also want people to see the movies I'm in…
— Christian Bale
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Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
— Joey Adams
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My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what…
— Martha Beck
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The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it…
— Conrad Black
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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
— William Blake
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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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