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"Time management is a big part of the director's job."
"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."
"The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains."
"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."
"Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, she had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which sometimes played old Pashto songs were played, time stretched and contracted depending on his absence or presence."
Explore more quotes by Joshua Lederberg
"If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far."
"I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while."
"I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities."
"I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21."
"So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us."
"I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it."
"If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk."
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