Maya Jama
British television and radio presenter
When people are disingenuous.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Failure to be on time.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2017 source ↗
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Richard Feynman
Theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1965
I would like to add something that’s not essential to the science, but something I kind of believe, which is that you should not fool the layman when you’re talking as a scientist.
The inability to appreciate true talent.
An inability to be authentic.
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Absentmindedness.
Getting hired. With the possible exception of my daughters’ births and my wedding day, the happiest moments of my life were when someone offered me a job.
When I finished writing a book.
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