Eric Lander Quotes

Having a sequence of the human genome is good, but our ability to interpret it was limited. The mouse sequence provides, for the first time, an ability to determine what matters and what doesn't in the human genome.

Eric Lander

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• For me, I don't participate in the filming when I represent a reality show star in a case, because that would mean waiving my right to attorney – client privilege, and that would hamper my ability to mount an effective case.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Ability
  • Privilege
  • Case

• I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Ability
  • Greatest
  • Mental

• We do not determine right or wrong based on what everybody else is doing.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Determine

• Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera are doing pretty well at getting noticed - a lot of people are doing pretty well at it. But you wonder whether they'll last, because many of them don't have the ability to get an audience to love them. You say, "That's a fabulous body" or "I like that song"; you don't say, "I love them because I know them." You can't know them.

  

  Bette Midler
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Song

• Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Different
  • Success

• The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Time
  • Business
  • Ability

• Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.

  

  Lev Vygotsky
  • Thinking
  • Learning
  • Ability

• When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident abut yourself.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Help
  • Confidence
  • Positive

• The first quality of courage is the willingness to launch with no guarantees. The second quality of courage is the ability to endure when there is no success in sight.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Success
  • Quality
  • Courage

• Reading was a way to make friends or enemies, a way to discover how all these different people exist in the world and to rub shoulders with them. The ability to feel as if you have met someone, as if that person exists in flesh and blood and that you relate to them somehow, makes you feel a lot less lonely. And it also makes you feel very brave.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• He was feeling things out at the beginning of training camp and as things went on, you really saw the ability for him to play the game at this level.

  

  Luke Richardson
  • Game
  • Feeling
  • Beginning

• By prayer, the ability is secured to feel the law of love, to speak according to the law of love, and to do everything in harmony with the law of love.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Law
  • Feel
  • Ability

• All these provisions will weaken our ability to protect endangered species, ... while encouraging more costly litigation and draining money from important conservation measures.

  

  Lois Capps
  • Important
  • Money
  • Ability

• You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If you're playing a lead in a movie, it's for that character and they'll tailor it to you. In a dance company, you have to fit in a definite mold.

  

  Neve Campbell
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Way

• I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Truth
  • Language
  • Ability

• We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Poetry
  • Ability
  • Modern

• Part of being a psychopath is an ability to dissociate from one reality and create another one, completely.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Reality
  • Ability
  • Psychopath

• Higher-order consciousness] involves the ability to construct a socially based selfhood, to model the world in terms of the past and the future, and to be directly aware.

  

  David Lewis-Williams
  • Ability
  • Consciousness
  • Involves

• Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Long
  • New
  • Line

• Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Hell

• Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Painting
  • Bidding

• Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

  

  Morton Hunt
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Positive

• God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped.

  

  John Piper
  • God
  • Loved
  • Displayed

• Having a sequence of the human genome is good, but our ability to interpret it was limited. The mouse sequence provides, for the first time, an ability to determine what matters and what doesn't in the human genome.

  

  Eric Lander
  • Ability
  • Determine
  • Limited