#breakthrough

I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#always #being #beyond #breakthrough #crazy

My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#alexander #breakthrough #discovered #european #few

Maybe it's wrong when we remember breakthroughs to our own being as something that occurs in discrete, extraordinary moments. Maybe falling in love, the piercing knowledge that we ourselves will someday die, and the love of snow are in reality not some sudden events; maybe they were always present. Maybe they never completely vanish, either. ↗

— Peter Høeg

#breakthrough #death #love #snow #death

In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#after #breakthrough #important #leads #like

Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting. ↗

— James D. Watson

#been #breakthrough #exciting #possible #preoccupation

As I slowly managed to take what I had learned into a transition from contestant to announcer and warm-up, I first had to prove myself on pilots. And as you know, many pilots are taped for each show that is lucky enough to breakthrough to being a series. ↗

— Randy West

#being #breakthrough #contestant #each #enough

It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research. ↗

— Roger Wicker

#come #false #government #medical #only

The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get my guitars refretted every couple of months. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#because #bending #breakthrough #couple #every

Cutting edge, breakthrough, television. That's what we want to do. ↗

— Anthony Michael Hall

#cutting #cutting edge #edge #television #want

The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album. ↗

— Faith Hill

#album #breakthrough #breathe #definitely #kiss