Genomes To Fields Quotes

#1. Never be a second-rate version of someone else, be a first-rate version of yourself

Judy Garland

#2. At the end of your days, be leaning forwards, not falling backwards.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#3. You want to challenge experts, because experts get a lot wrong. Doctors misdiagnose one time in five. In the U.S. and Canada, 50,000 people die every year who would not have had to.

Noreena Hertz

#4. To suppose a reader thoroughly indifferent to Kant, is to suppose him thoroughly unintellectual; and, therefore, though in reality he should happen not to regard him with interest, it is one of the fictions of courtesy to presume that he does.

Thomas De Quincey

#5. Alice: Where Should I go?
Cheshire Cat: That depends, where do you want to end up?

Lewis Carroll

#6. No inspiration comes from nowhere. No invention is based on nothing. You always need to be tuned up and be ready to start receiving the energy you look for.

Nikolay Semyonov

#7. I can think of no other experience quite like that of being 20 or so pages into a book and realizing that this is the real thing: a book that is going to offer the delicious promise of a riveting story, arresting language and characters that will haunt me for days.

Anita Shreve

#8. We will not capitulate - no, never! We may be destroyed, but if we are, we shall drag a world with us - a world in flames.

Adolf Hitler

#9. I've been hit in the head so many times, it's hard to remember that far back. I don't remember specific games.

Jim McMahon

#10. Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.

Randy Pausch

#11. In five years' time at this pace global warming becomes irreversible.

Yosef Abramowitz

#12. When there's a negative word or expression-immaculate, for example-but the positive is almost never used, and you choose to use it, you become rather amusing. Or pretentious. Or pretentiously amusing, which can sometimes be good. In any case, you are uncovering a buried word.

E. Lockhart

#13. I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing.

Yolanda Adams

#14. Particularly nauseous were the blank expressionless faces of people in trains and omnibuses; they seemed no more my fellow-creatures than dead bodies would be, so that I did not dare to travel unless I was assured of being alone.

H.G.Wells