A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study. – Mary Shelley Frankenstein, Chapter 4. Victor Frankenstein.
I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did. – Harold Nicholas
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
As a scientist, of course, we have to believe there is no supernatural. There are only natural entities in the universe. And those are the things that we study as natural scientists. – Greg Graffin
Sometimes I miss out the morning’s painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open. – Gustav Klimt
After briefly considering whether to study biology or medicine, I opted for medicine and initiated my studies at the University of Bonn. The first two years were particularly hard, since I simultaneously decided to attend lectures and courses in biology as well. – Harald zur Hausen
Scene study is isolated. I suppose it’s interesting, but I don’t think it really teaches you about a throughline. A throughline is something you feel when you do one scene followed by another followed by another. – Glenne Headly
My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic. – Gemma Chan
I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study. – Hedda Sterne
If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer. – Hal Sparks
In the course of the 1920s and 1930s, great progress was made in the study of the intermediary reactions by which sugar is anaerobically fermented to lactic acid or to ethanol and carbon dioxide. – Hans Adolf Krebs
But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, and his mind will be satisfied, if he has a mind to be satisfied and not only a fancy to run away with him. – Goldwin Smith
Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner. – Howard Staunton
We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us. – Henry Lawson
I don’t like to intellectualize about my acting. I don’t sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again. – Genevieve Bujold
I published in 1978 a report on dreams in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. It was the first study of its kind to demonstrate that it is possible for people to make constructive use of their dreams to improve their lives. – Henry Reed
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. – Henri Poincare
Because the completion of labour service was a precondition for permission to study at the university, I was able to begin my studies of Germanistics and Classical Philology during the summer term of 1939. – Heinrich Boll
All basic scientists who look to the NCI for funding should know that I will tolerate no retreat on the study of model systems and the pursuit of fundamental biological principles. – Harold E. Varmus
A curious observation is the uniform way that committees review curriculum for each field of study. Too often, authorities have a knee-jerk impulse to declare that ‘all curriculum areas will be the same.’ In fact, real and significant differences exist between fields of study. – Heidi Hayes Jacobs
I’ve worked with some teachers and coaches over the years, but I didn’t really study theater or technique or voice or any of that stuff extensively. – Jessica Lange
The families of many athletes – incensed at the sports leagues and hoping to make games safer overall – are increasingly making the brains of players who die prematurely and suspiciously available for study. Some athletes are even making the bequest themselves. – Jeffrey Kluger
