"This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail."

Career, Columbus, Question

64

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail."

Exlpore more Career quotes

"An entrepreneur sells his thoughts and ideas as a packaged product."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Career, Entrepreneur, Business, Creativity, Innovation

"Find a job from which you do not need a vacation."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Career, Job, Happiness, Work

"Joblessness gives you liberty."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Career, Joblessness, Liberty, Opportunity, Freedom

"Throughout my career, when I was finished with the drawing for one film I would go up to the story department and help develop sequences. Sometimes these were for scenes that I would animate later on."

Marc Davis, American Artist

Career, Film, Help

"Me and Johnny Rotten have been talking about doing a movie of his book, No Irish, No Dogs, No Blacks. We have a script, so hopefully that's going to happen at some point in our careers."

Penelope Spheeris, American Director

Career, Careers, Dogs, Irish, Talking

"Remember, before they promoted to the chair of CEO, they were the best employees of their companies."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Career, Promotion, Work, Success, Life

"We all have our unique careers that differ from one another, but the fact is that we must become "teachers and learners" at the end of it all! By the "learning career", we know what other people know; by the "teaching career", we make other people to know what we know!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Career, Teaching, Learning, Knowledge

"Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late '60's."

Brock Yates, American Editor

Career,

"Find a vocation and passionately commit your life to it."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Career, Find, Vocation, Passion, Life

"You get work however you get work, but people keep working in a freelance world (and more and more of todays world is freelance), because their work is good, because they are easy to get along with and because they deliver the work on time. And you don't even need all three! Two out of three is fine. People will tolerate how unpleasant you are if your work is good and you deliver it on time. People will forgive the lateness of your work if it is good and they like you. And you don't have to be as good as everyone else if you're on time and it's always a pleasure to hear from you."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Career, Work, Reputation, Trust, Time

Explore more quotes by Donald Cram

"To retain my fascination with chemistry, I have had to change my research fields about every 10 years."

Change

"An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted."

Time

"By the time I entered college, I had decided not to have children, a decision that was never regretted. Accordingly, I was careful to court only girls who wanted to have professional careers."

Time

"We usually don't have applications in mind. They come later."

Mind

"Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired."

Being

"This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail."

Career