"Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things."

Age, Successful, Being, Confidence

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"Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things."

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"If youth knew; if age could."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

Age, Youth

"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Age, Absurdity, May

"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

Willa Cather, American Author

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"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Age, Time, Old

"A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age."

Chuck Klosterman, American Critic

Age, Months

"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Age, Belief, Disguise

"Not even old age knows how to love death."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Age, Death, Love, Old

"No lie ever reaches old age."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Age, Lie, Old

"At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me."

Barnaby C. Keeney, American Educator

Age, People, College, Hell

"The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them thus preserving the system."

Quentin Crewe, British Journalist

Age, Children, Parents

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"I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects."

Communication, First, Internet, Projects

"Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy."

Personality, Privacy, Public

"If you want to solve very complex problems, you will have to end up letting machines work out a lot of the details for themselves, and in ways that we don't understand what they are doing."

Work, End, Machines, Problems

"As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it."

Detail, Needs, Open

"If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that."

Interest, Living

"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."

Talent,

"All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals."

Being,

"I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it."

Fact,

"I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didn't ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room."

Work, Pretty, Public, Questions

"I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people."

Life, Science, People, Hope