Boyer Quotes

#1. I play Dr. Karen Boyer in 'Spies Like Us.' She's strong, intelligent and dedicated and just happens to be beautiful.

Donna Dixon

#2. I made three films with Douglas, two with Charles Boyer.

Vincente Minnelli

#3. Wallace Boyer (Car Salesman): Sell cars long enough and you'll see: Nobody's all that original. Any lone weirdo comes from a big nest of weirdos. What's weird is, you go to some pigsty village in Slovakia, and suddenly even Andy Warhol makes perfect sense.

Chuck Palahniuk

#4. Anthropologically informed works, from Sir James Frazer's Golden Bough to Pascal Boyer's Religion Explained or Scott Atran's In Gods We Trust, fascinatingly document the bizarre phenomenology of superstition and ritual. Read such books and marvel at the richness of human gullibility. But that is not

Richard Dawkins

#5. Cohen and Boyer achieved a long-sought goal in molecular biology: the invention of a simple and efficient method for selecting specific genes from any imaginable organism and accurately reproducing the genetic material in pure and unlimited quantity.

Sally Hughes

#6. A knowledgeable manager can lend to the success of an organization "almost" as much as a poorly trained manager can damage it.

Mark W. Boyer

#7. More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.

Paul D. Boyer

#8. If you constantly make it clear that you are unwilling to budge, don't get upset when no one is around who's willing to give you a push.

Mark W. Boyer

#9. During my early years at Minnesota I conducted an evening enzyme seminar.

Paul D. Boyer

#10. Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world.

Ernest L. Boyer

#11. Sometimes justice is better served by those who have experienced the pain

Mark W. Boyer

#12. Lack of communication can drive a spike between two people wider than any physical distance.

Mark W. Boyer

#13. When it's all said and done remember, You are only as old as you look.

Mark W. Boyer

#14. A person's success is often limited by the level of their desire to succeed

Mark W. Boyer

#15. If you go through life expecting nothing chances are you'll be content most of the time.

Mark W. Boyer

#16. Whenever I'm running an hour late for for work, it always makes me feel better when I can leave an hour early at the end of the day to make up for it.

Mark W. Boyer

#17. Her death contributed to my later interest in studying biochemistry, an interest that has not been fulfilled in the sense that my accomplishments remain more at the basic than the applied level.

Paul D. Boyer

#18. I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.

Paul D. Boyer

#19. Expectation levels set can be directly correlated to the quality of the training provided.

Mark W. Boyer

#20. The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal.

Paul D. Boyer

#21. If you haven't made any mistakes lately, then obviously you haven't been trying too hard.

Mark W. Boyer

#22. When all is said and done we simply must make teaching in this country an honorable profession-since it's in the classrooms of America where the battle for excellence, ultimately, will be won or lost.

Ernest L. Boyer

#23. Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit.

Ernest L. Boyer

#24. When a person in your life continuously displays to you they do not care, there comes a point where you may want to start believing them.

Mark W. Boyer

#25. The assumption of all education is that learning will be directed toward constructive ends and I'm convinced that colleges should support students in their determination to be useful, self-sufficient, and productive.

Ernest L. Boyer

#26. The most gratifying action plan that one can conceive is one that others deem unattainable only to be proven wrong.

Mark W. Boyer

#27. It can be sad how time may change things in our lives, yet let us not forget we always maintain the power to choose whether or not to be happy about the changes it brings.

Mark W. Boyer

#28. People tend to spend so much time focusing on what they feel they can't do, rather examining the true potential of what they can.

Mark W. Boyer

#29. When you make a choice, there is always a cost, remind yourself of this when you find yourself procrastinating.

Jeff Boyer

#30. Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock.

Paul D. Boyer

#31. Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false.

Paul D. Boyer

#32. Competition is created from within, when you make a conscious decision to demand more from yourself.

Mark W. Boyer

#33. As I watched my grandfather work with people who were impoverished, I began to understand that to be truly human, one must serve.

Ernest L. Boyer

#34. Often times it isn't the quality of your candidates, it's the quality of your interview.

Mark W. Boyer

#35. [R]eligious concepts are parasitic upon moral intuitions.

Pascal Boyer

#36. Life is not complicated or finicky, it will gladly take you anywhere you choose to go.

Mark W. Boyer

#37. In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department.

Paul D. Boyer

#38. You can tell how often a person thinks of you by how often they tell you they think of you.

Mark W. Boyer

#39. We all cannot do everything or solve every issue. "It's impossible", however, if we each simply do our part. Make our own contribution, regardless of how small we may think it is ... together it adds up and great things get accomplished.

Mark W. Boyer

#40. The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment.

Paul D. Boyer

#41. The war project at Stanford was essentially completed, and I accepted an offer of an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, which had a good biochemistry department.

Paul D. Boyer

#42. It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.

Paul D. Boyer

#43. The effort you put forth in whatever you do is directly proportional to the results you produce.

Mark W. Boyer

#44. Education must prepare students to be independent, self-reliant human beings. But education, at its best, also must help students go beyond their private interests, gain a more integrative view of knowledge, and relate their learning to the realities of life.

Ernest L. Boyer

#45. All leading from the rear gets you, is first place at the back of the line.

Mark W. Boyer

#46. The fundamentalist violence is, so is it, an attempt to increase the stakes, i.e. to discourage the potential desertions by showing that defection will cost them dear, that those who adopt other values will be persecuted or even killed.

Pascal Boyer

#47. It may sound strange, but I get the inspiration for most of my Dreams while I'm sleeping.

Mark W. Boyer

#48. I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global.

Ernest L. Boyer

#49. When you make the decision to give something to a person who has nothing, that something has just become their everything.

Mark W. Boyer

#50. Give a person a job you help them pay some bills, teach them how to find a career and you provide them with sustenance for life!

Mark W. Boyer

#51. If you can't bring yourself to applaud because the performance was lousy, then applaud because it's over. They tried.

Mark W. Boyer

#52. Have ten successful people share their recipe for success and you shall receive ten different versions. What is your recipe ,and why not add the first ingredient today? Develop a plan.

Mark W. Boyer

#53. Never place someone so high on a pedestal that if they should fall ... you get crushed.

Mark W. Boyer

#54. Have I just been born?" asked the machine.

Dennis B. Boyer

#55. I take comfort in knowing that the inevitable passage of time will erase my crimes from history.

Dennis B. Boyer

#56. Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.

Carl Benjamin Boyer

#57. No matter how slow or long it takes, it is never too late to right a wrong.

Mark W. Boyer

#58. Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.

Paul D. Boyer

#59. Education is a seamless web: one level of learning relates to every other.

Ernest L. Boyer

#60. Drake was a man who retrieved things for people. His reputation was well-known, and people came to him not only for his reliability, but also his discretion. Certainly that was why he was here now, being offered this ungodly sum of money to go back in time.

Dennis B. Boyer

#61. The best help we can offer the youth of today is to prepare them for tomorrow.

Mark W. Boyer

#62. Being an American is more than a birthright. It is something we must prove worthy everyday, failure to do so insults those who have sacrificed all on our behalf.

Mark W. Boyer

#63. Once you expect great things from yourself, anything is possible.

Mark W. Boyer

#64. I am not smart, I pay attention.
I am not considerate, I listen.
I am not patient, I make time.
I'm not lucky, I work hard.

Mark W. Boyer

#65. I know how hard it is to let go of hate, but you have to try. It only leads to more suffering.

R. Scott Boyer

#66. If you are not willing to give a less experienced qualified professional a chance, don't complain you are charged double for a job worth half.

Mark W. Boyer

#67. Wouldn't it be wonderful if every home had good books instead of knick-knacks and plastic flowers on the bookshelves? And wouldn't it be great if every child heard good speech and received thoughtful answers to their questions instead of 'be quiet' or 'go to bed'?

Ernest L. Boyer

#68. A person with money who chooses to spend it on you, takes little effort and is meaningless. However, a person with no time who manages to spend what little they have on you ... this means everything and should appreciated.

Mark W. Boyer

#69. If you cannot find it within you to withstand the negative in your life, you'll never manage to recognize the good

Mark W. Boyer

#70. Our lives are a novel being written. We are its author. Every action we encounter and every person we meet has a role and a place in our ultimate story. It is in our control to decide the level of how, who and what impacts us and how large a role we decide to assign each.

Mark W. Boyer

#71. There was a pumping noise which Isaac knew to mean that the toxins had been released. Someone checked the needles and the tubing which had been inserted into his wrists and Isaac saw the thin, clear tubes begin to carry poisonous liquid into his veins.

Dennis B. Boyer

#72. The heretic was brought before the Supreme Judge unrestrained, there was no fear that he would flee. The room in which the heretic now stood was thoroughly secured, although the man had no intention of trying to escape anyhow.

Dennis B. Boyer

#73. For a man to challenge the darkness he need only be armed with a single spark.

Mark W. Boyer

#74. A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.

Paul D. Boyer

#75. Whether it be training, dieting, working out, or work ethic, for every great excuse "Not" to do something, there are 100 "better" reasons for you to do it.

Mark W. Boyer

#76. The connectedness of things is what the great university is all about, and I believe the great university in the coming century will be described as a community of scholars.

Ernest L. Boyer

#77. An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.

Paul D. Boyer

#78. Making someone feel visible is one of the greatest gifts you can give another human being, especially children,

D.E. Boyer

#79. When it come to working out: It would seem, the days we feel like it the least are the days we need it the most.

Mark W. Boyer

#80. It is no longer enough to simply read and write. Students must also become literate in the understanding of visual images. Our children must learn how to spot a stereotype, isolate a social cliche, and distinguish facts from propaganda, analysis from banter and important news from coverage.

Ernest L. Boyer

#81. You get what you work for.

Mark Boyer

#82. It matters not how fast light may travel, darkness shall always be there awaiting its arrival.

Mark W. Boyer

#83. The more she turned right the more I turned wrong.

Mark W. Boyer

#84. If you want to know how a manager is performing ask to see their data, really want to know ... ask those that report to them.

Mark W. Boyer

#85. If you aren't hurting after a good workout then obviously you haven't done something right

Mark W. Boyer

#86. It is easy to lead from the front when there are no obstacles before you, the true colors of a leader are exposed when placed under fire.

Mark W. Boyer

#87. Everyday US Marines make possible the impossible and then go about their business like it's just the way things are supposed to be.

Mark W. Boyer

#88. I've discovered I am most comfortable outside my comfort zone.

Mark W. Boyer

#89. Dare to think the unimaginable, imagine the unthinkable, dream of that which will never happen, yet continue to aspire and to test the limits of your very being and those around you.

Mark W. Boyer

#90. After reading some of my stories, I once had a friend say to me, "I'd love to spend five minutes in your head to see what's going on in there." I warned them, "If you spent five seconds in my mind you'd probably run out screaming and never speak to me again.

Mark W. Boyer

#91. Our most consequential human problems will be resolved, not through competition, but collaboration ... what we need in education is a learning climate in which students work together. In such an atmosphere, truth emerges as authentic insights are conscientiously exchanged.

Ernest L. Boyer

#92. My two most unproductive days of the week have always been yesterday and tomorrow. Keeping that in mind, I try to focus majority of my attention on today.

Mark W. Boyer

#93. If you are not taking the time to set your own goals, chances are pretty high someone else is doing it for you. So don't be surprised someday when you end up someplace you never hoped to be.

Mark W. Boyer

#94. work without the control or supervision of whoever is paying them.

Michael Boyer

#95. A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

Ernest L. Boyer

#96. A slew of cognitive traits predisposes us to faith,

Pascal Boyer

#97. A Frenchwoman, when double-crossed, will kill her rival; the Italian woman would rather kill her deceitful lover; the Englishwoman simply breaks off relations-but they all will console themselves with another man.

Charles Boyer

#98. That love at first sight should happen to me, was Life's most delicious revenge on a self-opinionated fool.

Charles Boyer

#99. The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds.

Paul D. Boyer

#100. Color can be measured in the depth of ones' skin, however character is measured by the content of ones' heart.

Mark W. Boyer