Boyer Quotes

There is no "one" way to be a perfect leader, but there are a million ways to be a good one. ~ Mark W. Boyer

Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false. ~ Paul D. Boyer

Whether it be training, dieting, working out, or work ethic, for every great excuse "Not" to do something, there are 100 "better" reasons for you to do it. ~ Mark W. Boyer

When you make the decision to give something to a person who has nothing, that something has just become their everything. ~ Mark W. Boyer

I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president. ~ Paul D. Boyer

That love at first sight should happen to me, was Life's most delicious revenge on a self-opinionated fool. ~ Charles Boyer

In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department. ~ Paul D. Boyer

Have ten successful people share their recipe for success and you shall receive ten different versions. What is your recipe ,and why not add the first ingredient today? Develop a plan. ~ Mark W. Boyer

Just because you consider yourself a genius does not mean you are smart ~ Mark W Boyer

Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms. ~ Carl Benjamin Boyer

When it come to working out: It would seem, the days we feel like it the least are the days we need it the most. ~ Mark W. Boyer

Once you expect great things from yourself, anything is possible. ~ Mark W. Boyer

Education is a seamless web: one level of learning relates to every other. ~ Ernest L. Boyer

I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned. ~ Paul D. Boyer

I take comfort in knowing that the inevitable passage of time will erase my crimes from history. ~ Dennis B. Boyer

Never allow reality to get in the way of your dreams. ~ Mark W. Boyer

For a man to challenge the darkness he need only be armed with a single spark. ~ Mark W. Boyer

Tell me again about how it's impossible to do and how it can't be done, then get out of my way and watch me do it. ~ Mak W Boyer

Every great accomplishment begins with a dream, never forget that within us all is the fortitude, patience and passion to change destiny. ~ Mark W. Boyer

Time is the most valuable commodity we have to offer the world. Don't be afraid to share. ~ Mark W. Boyer

More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding. ~ Paul D. Boyer

Those who see the impossible as unattainable are destined to reside in mediocrity ~ Mark W. Boyer

I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global. ~ Ernest L. Boyer

I've discovered I am most comfortable outside my comfort zone. ~ Mark W. Boyer

The heretic was brought before the Supreme Judge unrestrained, there was no fear that he would flee. The room in which the heretic now stood was thoroughly secured, although the man had no intention of trying to escape anyhow. ~ Dennis B. Boyer

A person's success is often limited by the level of their desire to succeed ~ Mark W. Boyer

Success can be defined as how hard you continue to fight when they tell you that the battle is over. ~ Mark W. Boyer

The mind of an artist never sleeps, because dreaming is when they do their best work. ~ Mark W. Boyer

If you can't bring yourself to applaud because the performance was lousy, then applaud because it's over. They tried. ~ Mark W. Boyer

Some people start their day surrendering saying "Woe is me, go ahead, bring me the pain in my life. I'm done", while other start it saying, "Whoa ... It's me! I dare you to try. I'm ready. ~ Mark W. Boyer

Human existence, or one's manifestation of it, is the greatest riddle of all. Many people will pursue this curiosity through insurmountable tragedies to get to the unanswerable other side. ~ Barbara Boyer

[R]eligious concepts are parasitic upon moral intuitions. ~ Pascal Boyer

I respect a woman who can respect me when I'm not around. ~ Mark W. Boyer

If you aren't hurting after a good workout then obviously you haven't done something right ~ Mark W. Boyer

If you are not taking the time to set your own goals, chances are pretty high someone else is doing it for you. So don't be surprised someday when you end up someplace you never hoped to be. ~ Mark W. Boyer

If you want to know how a manager is performing ask to see their data, really want to know ... ask those that report to them. ~ Mark W. Boyer

The more she turned right the more I turned wrong. ~ Mark W. Boyer

Fearing our confrontations is one thing ... facing them unarmed is a completely different matter. ~ Mark W. Boyer

It is not the rough times endured that define your relationship, it's how you deal with them and bounce back. ~ Mark W. Boyer

During my early years at Minnesota I conducted an evening enzyme seminar. ~ Paul D. Boyer

It is easy to lead from the front when there are no obstacles before you, the true colors of a leader are exposed when placed under fire. ~ Mark W. Boyer

There is not a more powerful weapon upon this earth capable of inflicting more damage, pain and suffering than a betrayal of the heart. ~ Mark Boyer

I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information. ~ Paul D. Boyer

Added pressure and responsibility should not change one's leadership style, it should merely expose that which already exists. ~ Mark W. Boyer

Lack of communication can drive a spike between two people wider than any physical distance. ~ Mark W. Boyer

If you cannot find it within you to withstand the negative in your life, you'll never manage to recognize the good ~ Mark W. Boyer

Nothing leaves a scar upon an Authors heart more than a book they've written with purpose going unread. ~ Mark W. Boyer

Accept from those who have and share with those who do not ~ Mark W. Boyer

Preaching love disguised as hate is worst than screaming aloud to the world the darkness within you ~ Mark W. Boyer

It was always assumed that I would go to college. ~ Paul D. Boyer

The fundamentalist violence is, so is it, an attempt to increase the stakes, i.e. to discourage the potential desertions by showing that defection will cost them dear, that those who adopt other values will be persecuted or even killed. ~ Pascal Boyer

To put it simply, school readiness means creating in this country a public love of children. ~ Ernest L. Boyer

We all must do what we have to do to get where we need to be. Ultimately, you make that final decision yourself. ~ Mark Boyer

work without the control or supervision of whoever is paying them. ~ Michael Boyer

If you constantly make it clear that you are unwilling to budge, don't get upset when no one is around who's willing to give you a push. ~ Mark W. Boyer

Exactly what good are our eyes if they are not willing to see what's right before us? ~ Mark W. Boyer

A slew of cognitive traits predisposes us to faith, ~ Pascal Boyer

Never pass on an opportunity to say thank you or give recognition for a job well done ~ Mark W. Boyer

Whenever I'm running an hour late for for work, it always makes me feel better when I can leave an hour early at the end of the day to make up for it. ~ Mark W. Boyer

Berkeley was unable to appreciate that mathematics was not concerned with a world of "real" sense impressions. In much the same manner today some philosophers criticize the mathematical conceptions of infinity and continuum, failing to realize that since mathematics deals with relations rather than with physical existence, its criterion of truth is inner consistency rather than plausibility in the light of sense perception of intuition. ~ Carl B. Boyer

Making someone feel visible is one of the greatest gifts you can give another human being, especially children, ~ D.E. Boyer

An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel. ~ Paul D. Boyer

A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement. ~ Paul D. Boyer

Color can be measured in the depth of ones' skin, however character is measured by the content of ones' heart. ~ Mark W. Boyer

Ponder the affirmative. ~ Loretta Boyer McClellan

There is nothing more stimulating to the senses than that of a female body freshly emerged from a steaming hot shower, bathed in oils and feminine scents ... well nothing except maybe a freshly opened package of chocolate double-stuffed Oreos. ~ Mark W. Boyer

Remorse overwhelmed the old man. He had indeed been foolish to agree to allow this game to dictate the outcome of their dispute. This was not the way such matters were usually resolved. Not only was the current contest unusual, but there was also a question as to the morality of deciding the matter in this way. ~ Dennis B. Boyer

Cohen and Boyer achieved a long-sought goal in molecular biology: the invention of a simple and efficient method for selecting specific genes from any imaginable organism and accurately reproducing the genetic material in pure and unlimited quantity. ~ Sally Hughes

If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer. ~ Paul D. Boyer

Never place someone so high on a pedestal that if they should fall ... you get crushed. ~ Mark W. Boyer

Clothes are a better place for girls to keep their histories than stories. Stories betray girls by saying what we really were according to the rules of some game we had never agreed to play. Stories are about the painful aporia of having to both appear and exist, the things done to us, what we are trying to cover up by getting dressed. But if we kept our histories in clothes, these were the annals only of our own actualization and no one would put in quotation marks the bad things the world had said our way as we walked by on the streets. ~ Anne Boyer

Definitions of number, as given by several later mathematicians, make the limit of an infinite sequence identical with the sequence itself. Under this view, the question as to whether the variable reaches its limit is without logical meaning. Thus the infinite sequence .9, .99, .999,... is the number one, and the question, "Does it ever reach one?" is an attempt to give a metaphysical argument which shall satisfy intuition. ~ Carl B. Boyer

You can tell how often a person thinks of you by how often they tell you they think of you. ~ Mark W. Boyer

Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures. ~ Paul D. Boyer

In a shipboard lecture en route to America, John Winthrop, Massachusetts' first governor, called the soon-to-be-founded settlement "a city on a hill," a model of God's ultimate plan for humanity. Elaborated by a succession of ministers, this sense of divine purpose arose from a particular reading of sacred history: God had chosen the Puritans to create in America a New Zion, as He had once chosen the Jews in ancient times. Sometimes reformulated in secular language, this deep-seated belief in America's unique role in history would long survive. ~ Paul S. Boyer

Wouldn't it be wonderful if every home had good books instead of knick-knacks and plastic flowers on the bookshelves? And wouldn't it be great if every child heard good speech and received thoughtful answers to their questions instead of 'be quiet' or 'go to bed'? ~ Ernest L. Boyer

A knowledgeable manager can lend to the success of an organization "almost" as much as a poorly trained manager can damage it. ~ Mark W. Boyer

Everyday US Marines make possible the impossible and then go about their business like it's just the way things are supposed to be. ~ Mark W. Boyer

Envision in your mind what you expect from life, focus on your plan ... whether good or bad you can anticipate its arrival. The choice is then yours to accept it. ~ Mark W. Boyer

We hear a lot of talk these days about teaching values in higher education. Frankly, I am not sure this can be accomplished through a separate course in morality or ethics. I am convinced, however, that values are sustained on campus by the honesty of our words, and by the confidence we have in the words of others. ~ Ernest L. Boyer

Sometimes we just have to suck it up and do what we have to do, until we are able to do what we want to do. ~ Mark W. Boyer

Allow the beauty of all that we love be reflected in who we are and in our actions. ~ Mark W. Boyer

Now we can see what makes mathematics unique. Only in mathematics is there no significant correction - only extension. Once the Greeks had developed the deductive method, they were correct in what they did, correct for all time. Euclid was incomplete and his work has been extended enormously, but it has not had to be corrected. His theorems are, every one of them, valid to this day. ~ Carl B. Boyer

I made three films with Douglas, two with Charles Boyer. ~ Vincente Minnelli

The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment. ~ Paul D. Boyer

When lost in darkness he who lights the way, marks himself as easy prey. ~ Mark W. Boyer

Dreamers dream the dream, Artists live it. ~ Mark W. Boyer

Book CoverTo have people who are well informed but not constrained by conscience is conceivably, the most dangerous outcome of education possible. Indeed it could be argued that ignorance is better than unguided intelligence, for the most dangerous people are those who have knowledge without a moral framework. ~ Ernest L. Boyer

Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit. ~ Ernest L. Boyer

The effort you put forth in whatever you do is directly proportional to the results you produce. ~ Mark W. Boyer

It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams. ~ Paul D. Boyer

The reputation of a great work ethic that took years to build can be forgotten with one act of misjudgment. ~ Mark W. Boyer

Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak. ~ Paul D. Boyer

If all you ever focus on is the negative, then that's all you shall see ever see. ~ Mark W Boyer

Sometimes justice is better served by those who have experienced the pain ~ Mark W. Boyer

When all is said and done we simply must make teaching in this country an honorable profession-since it's in the classrooms of America where the battle for excellence, ultimately, will be won or lost. ~ Ernest L. Boyer

Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world. ~ Ernest L. Boyer

Wallace Boyer (Car Salesman): Sell cars long enough and you'll see: Nobody's all that original. Any lone weirdo comes from a big nest of weirdos. What's weird is, you go to some pigsty village in Slovakia, and suddenly even Andy Warhol makes perfect sense. ~ Chuck Palahniuk

Dare to think the unimaginable, imagine the unthinkable, dream of that which will never happen, yet continue to aspire and to test the limits of your very being and those around you. ~ Mark W. Boyer

There are times by you saying nothing, you tell me everything I need to know. ~ Mark W. Boyer