Paul D. Boyer (Paul Delos Boyer) Quotes

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

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• The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • May
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• Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Effort
  • Goal
  • Achieve

• The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Best
  • Effort
  • Person

• If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Best
  • Positive
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• Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • Good
  • Different
  • Help

• The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Different
  • Character
  • Look

• Stress overload makes us stupid. Solid research proves it. When we get overstressed, it creates a nasty chemical soup in our brains that makes it hard to pull out of the anxious depressive spiral.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Stupid
  • Stress
  • Research

• Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Night
  • Effort
  • Winning

• As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Up
  • God
  • Long

• The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Men
  • Women
  • Research

• Gold medals are made out of your sweat, blood and tears, and effort in the gym every day, and sacrificing a lot.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Day
  • Effort
  • Gold

• I don't really want a film as a present; you can get me a diamond ring.

  

  Maggie Cheung
  • Want
  • Present
  • Film

• I do make some conscious efforts to write female friendships, intergenerational female friendships. I make a conscious effort to include things that I see as important real parts of my life that are not reflected as much as I think they should be in popular culture. We very seldom have the opportunity to see women compete and remain friends.

  

  Kelly Sue DeConnick
  • Life
  • Important
  • Women

• That's all small talk is - a quick way to connect on a human level - which is why it is by no means as irrelevant as the people who are bad at it insist. In short, it's worth making the effort.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • People
  • Why
  • Bad

• Films used to be an event that required work and effort to get to a theater to see. Now, really good content is available immediately to us on many devices. At the same time, the audience's appetite for storytelling is evolving, and people want to spend time with characters for many years.

  

  Joe Russo
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.

  

  Maximilien Robespierre
  • People
  • Great
  • May

• If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.

  

  Branch Rickey
  • Joy
  • Effort

• It's really great if people actually want to see something that you've made and you've put a lot of effort into. And that doesn't always happen, and there's not always a rhyme or reason.

  

  Kelly Macdonald
  • People
  • Great
  • Effort

• I have somewhat ambivalent feelings about the recognition of individuals when so much of this was a team effort.

  

  Barry Barish
  • Team
  • Effort

• The grudge you hold on to is like a hot coal that you intend to throw at someone, only you're the one who gets burned.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Burned
  • Coal
  • Grudge

• The way I look at it is, cancer research is absolutely nonpartisan. Cancer is very democratic in the sense that it attacks people regardless of their race, their gender, their national background, or their political persuasions.

  

  David H. Koch
  • People
  • Political
  • Cancer

• I was 17 and living on the streets. I had the education of technically an eighth-grader, but in reality, I had never had a formal education.

  

  Liz Murray
  • Reality
  • Education

• When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks.

  

  H. H. Asquith
  • War
  • Army
  • Wire

• 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
  • Effort
  • Research
  • Diamond