Quotes for All
I’m a big fan of Kiss. Gene Simmons, he’s all into marketing and branding. You name it, there’s some type of product with Kiss’ name on it. Studying people like that, you see guys have hooks and there are reasons people are successful. Gabriel Iglesias
Of course when people are as talented as Jim O’Rourke or Gene Coleman, pretty soon you know that they’re going to be part of the bigger scene anyway. Evan Parker
You have only three real friends: Jesus Christ, Sears Roebuck, and Gene Talmadge. Eugene Talmadge
Each Fall the graves of my grandfathers call me, the brown hills and red gullies of mississippi send out their electric messages, galvanizing my genes. Etheridge Knight
We must distinguish between genes that cause physical characteristics, like the color of your eyes or hair, over which you have no control, and what we could call ‘behavioral dispositions’. We are responsible for our behavior, no matter what those dispositions are. Erwin W. Lutzer
The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire population was started by a single pair or by a single fertilized female. These ‘founders’ of the population carried with them only a very small proportion of the variability of the parent population. … Read more
New gene pools are generated in every generation, and evolution takes place because the successful individuals produced by these gene pools give rise to the next generation. Ernst Mayr
As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification. Ernst Mayr
Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught. Eric Ries
If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white – which his genes certainly entitled him to do – his story would have carried very different meaning. If millions of part-black people had followed him into whiteness, then the N.A.A.C.P. would be in true crisis. Eric Liu