Quotes About Dedication

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In her there was a pliancy, a resilience which was Oriental — a passion to serve.

It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.

I'm sad in a way that the character [Doctor Strange ] leaves [neurosurgery] behind. It's an amazing discipline.

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts.

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality.

Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty years of my life bent over my writing desk."

I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.

There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.

Archaeology is not a science, it's a vendetta.

If you do not feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know.

It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.

What I do is not rocket science, but I sure do love it.

Private practice and marriage - those twin extinguishers of science.

We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it's not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer it out.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

A life spent in the routine of science need not destroy the attractive human element of a woman's nature.

It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.

Surgical knowledge depends on long practice, not from speculations.

I'm happy to keep doing science and being a mentor to anyone who asks for advice.