Carl Zimmer Quotes
If you're looking for your own idea of your own identity you know the human genome may not be the best place to look for it. You're just looking at a bunch of viruses.Carl Zimmer
Quotes to Explore
-
I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.
Iris Apfel -
In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
Nathan Fielder -
I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.
Dane Cook -
We live in a multi-cultural society far more open to international ideas. If you'd told me 20 years ago I'd drive through Bury and see someone sitting outside a cafe drinking a latte, I'd have laughed. In fact, I wouldn't have even known what a latte was.
Gary Neville -
I could try to incorporate or reflect in my models what it is that an employee, manager, or entrepreneur does: to recognize that most are engaged in their work, form expectations and evolve beliefs, solve problems, and have ideas. Trying to put these people into economic models became my project.
Edmund Phelps -
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
-
When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
M. H. Abrams -
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I'm not really a knob-twiddler. I always work with an engineer; I'm not super hands-on when it comes to mixing boards and computers. I'm much more about what I'm hearing and what it needs to be like. I deal with songs and ideas and instruments.
Danger Mouse -
I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.
Barbara Amiel -
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Napoleon Hill -
Early on, I knew I had ideas, but I wasn't sure when it was appropriate to bring them to the table, and I was so intimidated by these titans that I was working for. But it started around the time of 'Tron,' when I was really excited by the creative process and the prep that went into that. I spoke up often at those writing sessions.
Olivia Wilde
-
It's a must to continually stay alert and aware because ideas come from everywhere. And beyond relying on your fine-tuned radar to pick up on the next inspiration, consider seeking mentors.
Caroline Ghosn -
Of course it was a method of play you had to change because people get the idea once they have played against you.
Jack Charlton -
An idea fell like a seed and over the next weeks it went on growing like a fig vine lush and conquering twining round her old beliefs and covering them in new growth until they were as invisible as a tiger in a thicket and just as deadly.
Laini Taylor -
The idea of what it is like to lose everything is awful.
Andrew Solomon -
This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.
Angelina Jolie -
I'm a human being. I'm not a piece of property. I'm not a consignment of goods.
Curt Flood
-
I lost the ball in the moon.
Hank Sauer -
The point is that any law that makes criminals out of 15 million Americans is probably not such a good idea. The point was that drug abuse isn't a criminal issue, it's a healthcare issue. And the money and manpower we spend prosecuting a surfer in San Diego might better be used fighting things that genuinely threaten our national health and safety. That was the point.
Josh Charles -
Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.
William James -
If you're looking for your own idea of your own identity you know the human genome may not be the best place to look for it. You're just looking at a bunch of viruses.
Carl Zimmer