Fascinated Quotes - Page 14

• Learning to explain phenomena such that one continues to be fascinated by the failure of one's explanations creates a continuing cycle of thinking, that is the crux of intelligence. It isn't that one person knows more than another, then. In as sense, it is important to know less than the next person, or at least to be certain of less, thus enabling more curiosity and less explaining away because one has again encountered a well-known phenomenon. The less you know the more you can find out about, and finding out for oneself is what intelligence is all about.

  Roger Schank

  Thinking, Curiosity, Important

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• From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things.

  Michael Dell

  Technology, Ideas, Machines

  Michael Dell, Catherine Fredman (2010). “Direct From Dell: Strategies that Revolutionized an Industry”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• I'm fascinated by the sprinters. They suffer so much during the race just to get to the finish, they hang on for dear life in the climbs, but then in the final kilometers they are transformed and do amazing things. It's not their force per se that impresses me, but rather the renaissance they experience. Seeing them suffer throughout the race only to be reborn in the final is something for fascination.

  Miguel Indurain

  Race, Cycling, Suffering

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• All of my life, I have been fascinated by the big questions that face us, and have tried to find scientific answers to them. If, like me, you have looked at the stars, and tried to make sense of what you see, you too have started to wonder what makes the universe exist.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Science, Answers

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• We're all fascinated by the numbers, as we were about the 100 points.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Numbers

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• Well, my favorite band is Radiohead. But, you know, I am pretty fascinated in general with music. I love music. It is definitely an interest.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Band, Music Love

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• Many Americans follow pro basketball from November through June, for reasons that I found unexplainable, other than the fact that they were overly fascinated with soaring armpits.

  Dan Jenkins

  Funny, Basketball, June

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• True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Eye, Wind, Class

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• I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Love Life, Loving Life, Behavior

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• Be alive! See what you want! DO NOT lose your fascination! What you're fascinated with becomes fastened to you!

  Joseph Simmons

  Positivity, Fascination, Alive

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• I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into foam, smooth to green glass over sunken rocks, shatter to foam again. I was fascinated by how it sped by and yet was always there; its roar shook both the earth and me.

  Wallace Stegner

  Heart, Rivers, Glasses

  Wallace Stegner (2015). “The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West”, p.35, Vintage

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• We called the new [fourth] quark the "charmed quark" because we were pleased, and fascinated by the symmetry it brought to the subnuclear world. "Charm" also means a "a magical device to avert evil," and in 1970 it was realized that the old three quark theory ran into very serious problems. ... As if by magic the existence of the charmed quark would [solve those problems].

  Sheldon Lee Glashow

  Mean, Science, Evil

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• I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Leadership, Football, Children

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• I'd once been fascinated by his legend - all the stories I'd heard before I met him. Now I can feel that same sense of fascination returning. I picture his face, so beautiful even after pain and torture and grief, his blue eyes bright and sincere. I'm ashamed to admit that I enjoyed my brief time with him in his prison cell. His voice can make me forget about all the details running through my mind, bringing with it emotions of desire, or fear instead, sometimes even anger, but always triggering something. Something that wasn't there before.

  Marie Lu

  Beautiful, Running, Pain

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• I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

  Diane Sawyer

  Memories, Way, Facts

  Attributed to Diane Sawyer in R.L. Messner, S.J. Lewis "Increasing patient satisfaction" (p. 185), 1996.

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• Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum, and relatively few are concerned with or thrilled by the astounding-yet true-facts of science, as put forth in the pages of, say, Scientific American.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Truth, Taken, Science

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• I have always been fascinated by the poetic condition of twilight. By its transformative quality. Its power of turning the ordinary into something magical and otherworldly. My wish is for the narrative in the pictures to work within that circumstance. It is that sense of in-between-ness that interests me.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Twilight, Wish, Quality

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• I'm fascinated by America...it's so odd.

  John Prine

  America, Odd, Songwriting

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• But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

  Nastassja Kinski

  Life, Waiting, Dying

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• I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.

  Amy Tan

  Writing, Simple, Ideas

  Amy Tan (2003). “The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life”, p.181, Penguin

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• As far as being a coach, it's always fascinated me. It's a greater responsibility than most people give it credit for because you're dealing with people.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Responsibility, People

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• The most beautiful landscape cannot hold my fascinated attention as much as nature by the seaside and all that is connected with water.

  Lyonel Feininger

  Beautiful, Art, Water

  Lyonel Feininger, June L. Ness (1974). “Lyonel Feininger”, Praeger Publishers

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• I remember sitting at the end of my mum's bed being fascinated by her ritual of getting dressed. It was a very methodical and considered process. I suppose you could say she was my first real muse.

  Matthew Williamson

  Fashion, Real, Bed

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• Willis Rodney Whitney ... once compared scientific research to a bridge being constructed by a builder who was fascinated by the construction problems involved. Basic research, he suggested, is such a bridge built wherever it strikes the builder's fancy-wherever the construction problems seem to him to be most challenging. Applied research, on the other hand, is a bridge built where people are waiting to get across the river. The challenge to the builder's ingenuity and skill, Whitney pointed out, can be as great in one case as the other.

  Chauncey Guy Suits

  Science, Hands, Bridges

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• I immediately loved working with flies. They fascinated me, and followed me around in my dreams.

  Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

  Dream, Genetics

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