Elizabeth Holmes Quotes

#1. What we're about is the belief that access to affordable and real-time health information is a basic human right, and it's a civil right.

Elizabeth Holmes

#2. I definitely am afraid of needles. It's the only thing that actually scares me.

Elizabeth Holmes

#3. Keep calm and carry on.
Also, stay in and hide because the Ripper is coming.

Maureen Johnson

#4. In our century even our dreams are alike, even dreams are things we sell. Undifferentiated, which is just another way of saying indifferent.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#5. I love adventures.

Elizabeth Holmes

#6. What I really want out of life is to discover something new: something mankind didn't know was possible to do.

Elizabeth Holmes

#7. Noah can't stand me, but he loves me. Takes up for me. Like siblings.

Katie McGarry

#8. Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see.

Criss Jami

#9. A life lived in equal excess is one of moderation.

Charles Martin Hall

#10. I think that the minute that you have a backup plan, you've admitted that you're not going to succeed,

Elizabeth Holmes

#11. A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

Gertrude Jekyll

#12. When you find what you love, you do it. That's it.

Elizabeth Holmes

#13. My father did a lot of disaster relief work, and he was always in places where there was a lot of pain.

Elizabeth Holmes

#14. Don't decide on a dog based on looks either, much like with people, looks and first impressions can be deceiving.

Elizabeth Holmes

#15. I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed.

Marcus Aurelius

#16. Technology has an incredible role to play in enabling of policy issues.

Elizabeth Holmes

#17. My best advice for someone considering adopting a pet is to take the time to really consider your lifestyle, home environment and personal preferences.

Elizabeth Holmes

#18. The right to protect the health and well-being of every person, of those we love, is a basic human right.

Elizabeth Holmes

#19. Patients are empowered by having better access to their own health information, and then by owning their own data.

Elizabeth Holmes

#20. At a relatively early age, I began to believe that building a business was perhaps the greatest opportunity for making an impact, because it's a tool for making a change in the world.

Elizabeth Holmes

#21. I think people can benefit tremendously from really asking why they're doing certain things,

Elizabeth Holmes

#22. First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge & enhance an idea, to reform it ... Revision is one of the true pleasures of writing.

Bernard Malamud

#23. The art of phlebotomy originated with bloodletting in 1400 B.C., and the modern clinical lab emerged in the 1960s - and it has not fundamentally evolved since then. You go in, sit down, they put a tourniquet on your arm, stick you with a needle, take these tubes and tubes of blood.

Elizabeth Holmes

#24. With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick.

Elizabeth Holmes

#25. I don't want to make an incremental change in some technology in my life. I want to create a whole new technology, and one that is aimed at helping humanity at all levels regardless of geography or ethnicity or age or gender.

Elizabeth Holmes

#26. Thernos 1.0 is an external point-of-care BlackBerry.

Elizabeth Holmes

#27. I believe in the unlimited power of women in the context of science and engineering.

Elizabeth Holmes

#28. Fundamentally, the answers to our challenges in healthcare relies in engaging and empowering the individual.

Elizabeth Holmes

#29. It drives me crazy when people talk about the scale as an indicator of health, because your weight doesn't tell you what's going on at a biochemical level.

Elizabeth Holmes

#30. We know more about our credit cards than we know about our bodies.

Elizabeth Holmes

#31. The principle that characters do not want to change applies to more than just fiction.

Donald Miller

#32. I'm not childless, darling. I am childfree.

Tallulah Bankhead

#33. Although the decision to get a dog can seem light on the surface, it's actually a long-term commitment much like a human mate. The consequences of a bad decision can be difficult for everyone involved.

Elizabeth Holmes

#34. I really believe that if we were from another planet, and we sat down to put our heads together on torture experiments, the concept of sticking a needle into someone and sucking their blood out would probably qualify as a pretty good one.

Elizabeth Holmes

#35. In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

Theodor Adorno

#36. Too often you see someone fall, break a rib, go in to the doctor and discover a tumor.

Elizabeth Holmes

#37. I'm excited but afraid. I long to turn and wedge myself through the horse's arse from which I've just fallen, to sit safe in the hot womb of my room. But this is Jasper Jones, and he and come to me.

Craig Silvey

#38. When I thought about having the greatest impact with my life, I thought about all the times people lose loved ones because diseases weren't detected early enough. I thought, 'I can play a role there.'

Elizabeth Holmes

#39. I think a lot of young people have incredible ideas and incredible insights, but sometimes they wait before they go give their life to something. What I did was just to start a little earlier.

Elizabeth Holmes

#40. I would much rather live a life of purpose than one in which I might have other things but not that,

Elizabeth Holmes

#41. Today, blood work and science are able to provide more of a movie of your health, identifying trends before they become an issue.

Elizabeth Holmes