Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
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First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Stay resilient in the face of challenges and don't let others or circumstances deter you.
Marie Curie's quote emphasizes the importance of perseverance and resilience. It encourages individuals to maintain their strength and resolve, regardless of external challenges or discouragement from others. The essence of this principle is to foster a mindset that does not succumb to negativity or defeatism, and instead remains focused on overcoming obstacles.
Themes
ResilienceCouragePerseveranceStrengthDetermination
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Using this quote in a motivational speech about overcoming adversity.
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I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery has its own beauty.
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The sensitive plate, the gas which is ionised, the fluorescent screen, are in reality receivers, into another kind of energy, chemical energy, ionic energy... luminous energy.
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During the year 1894, Pierre Curie wrote me letters that seem to me admirable in their form. No one of them was very long, for he had the habit of concise expression, but all were written in a spirit of sincerity and with an evident anxiety to make the one he desired as a companion know him as he was.
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Certein bodies... become luminous when heated. Their luminosity disappears after some time, but the capacity of becoming luminous afresh through heat is restored to them by the action of a spark, and also by the action of radium.
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