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"To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing."
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"If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world, then you'd need world attention to be able to prove it."
"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention."
"The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going."
"I live myself with my cat Pebbles. She isn't enjoying the attention as much as me - she ran off up the stairs as soon as the film crew for the show came into the house. She didn't come down for hours. But I have the support of all my brothers and sisters and my neighbours and friends - everyone thinks it's just great."
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."
"You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing."
"Even though it has been very painful, lots of opportunities have come forward journalistically. Once all of this blows over, I think it might actually help that I have gotten this attention."
"The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail."
"I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention."
Explore more quotes by Joshua Lederberg
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things."
"So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us."
"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."
"Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that."
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