James Rothman Quotes

#1. In the earlier years when I started this project at Stanford University, everyone told me it was nuts to go and try to reproduce the mysterious complexities that occur in a whole cell.

James Rothman

#2. If life has taught me anything it's to appreciate what you've got. Take something for granted and it could be gone before you even realized what you had.

Kristen Callihan

#3. There are a billion songs that I've heard and said, 'I don't even care to have an opinion about it,' but if I have to hear a snippet of the refrain of 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' once, it'll get stuck in my head, and that drives me crazy.

Kurt Braunohler

#4. Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#5. What is the most powerful lever you can imagine? A big idea, but only if it's in the hands of a truly outstanding entrepreneur. It starts with the person and the idea, and then grows to the institution. All three are intertwined.

Bill Drayton

#6. Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn't.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#7. Most fishermen use the double haul to throw their casting mistakes further.

Lefty Kreh

#8. Human is human," said Issib. "But civilized - that's the gift of the Oversoul. Civilization without self-destruction.

Orson Scott Card

#9. I might have been just as happy to have been a practicing primary-care doctor. But as a medical student, I had interacted with patients suffering from neurodegeneration or acute clinical schizophrenia. It left an indelible mark on my memory.

James Rothman

#10. I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.

James Rothman

#11. The truth is that anyone, almost anyone, who receives the Nobel Prize has some indirect knowledge of one sort or another that they may be a candidate.

James Rothman

#12. but z he who pursues evil

Anonymous

#13. When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist.

James Rothman

#14. The point of serving your country is not to do your own thing or to go rogue, but to work as part of the process.

Kal Penn

#15. Normally I hate people who whine all the time, but in your case, it would be okay to complain. Be selfish, say what you want once in a while. It's okay to let yourself be sad. -Kyo talking to Tohru

Natsuki Takaya

#16. The gesture, rather than the word, is the true transmitter of traditions.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#17. We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?

Robert Jackson Bennett

#18. One of the major lessons in all of biochemistry, cell biology and molecular medicine is that when proteins operate at the sub cellular level, they behave in a certain way as if they're mechanical machinery.

James Rothman

#19. I started taking a basic biology course, and I really loved it. I started asking research questions incessantly. I was drawn very quickly to biology.

James Rothman

#20. In my early youth - he would later write to his friend, the philosopher Constantin Noica - seduced me solely the libraries and the brothels.

Emil Cioran