Barbara McClintock Quotes

If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.

Barbara McClintock

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• I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • People
  • High
  • Know

• Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Remember
  • You
  • Know

• I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Want
  • Know
  • Alone

• The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Want
  • Know
  • Queen

• This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Man
  • Know
  • Spirit

• Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Fun
  • Know

• I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Know
  • See
  • Possibility

• If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Know
  • Sleep
  • Dawn

• In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Time
  • Know
  • Fashion

• It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Work
  • Different
  • Know

• I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.

  

  Larry King
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Work
  • Family
  • Fun

• You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • You
  • Know
  • Accomplish

• He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Know
  • Speak
  • Does

• I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

  

  E. B. White
  • Know
  • Literature
  • More

• I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • You
  • Know
  • Sensitive

• When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Knowledge
  • Limit
  • Limited

• I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Kids
  • Knowledge

• Just like I find men who talk sports who don't really know sports annoying, I think men might find women who don't really have a true passion and knowledge of sports maybe not so attractive.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• This ability to incorporate the past gives the sharpest diagnostic tool, if one asks whether a body of knowledge is a science or not. Do present practitioners have to go back to an original work of the past? Or has it been incorporated? ... Science is cumulative, and embodies its past.

  

  C.P. Snow
  • Work
  • Science
  • Past

• Our education system is not preparing young people for the world they will face.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • People
  • World
  • Education

• Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires,And decorate the verse herself inspires:This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,-Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Truth
  • Nature

• I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Children
  • School

• If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.

  

  Barbara McClintock
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Right Track