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To do the very best you can and then let it go.
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What lesson has mattered most in your life?Originally asked
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Richard Coles
British musician, writer, presenter and priest
Don’t overcook pasta.
If you commit to it, you won’t ever stop learning.
That fear and excitement sometimes feel quite similar and you can misinterpret one for the other.
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Developmental biologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1995
Not really. I thought that getting the Nobel Prize was a big interruption in my career, I thought and it was very distracting. It takes a lot of time you know, it just takes time to be honoured, you have to travel and you have to give speeches of things you have, oh it’s so often that you get bored to tears when you hear your own voice. And it’s really taking a lot of your time and there’s no way that during this time you can start something new, I mean you just profit from what you’ve done and there is no time to develop new ideas.
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Marika Griehsel, Interview at the 53rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, 30 June–4 July 2003, Nobel Prize Outreach, 1 July 2003
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As vital as breathing.
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