Vaupel Quotes & Sayings

I flipped open to read the marked passage in Daily Strength: "It is not by regretting what is irreparable that true work is to be done, but by making the best of what we are. It is not by complaining that we have not the right tools, but by using well the tools we have. What we are, and where we are, is God's providential arrangement - God's doing, though it may be man's misdoing; and the manly and the wise way is to look your disadvantages in the face, and see what can be made out of them." - F. W. Robertson — Will Schwalbe

It turns out that inheritance has surprisingly little influence on longevity. James Vaupel, of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, in Rostock, Germany, notes that only 3 percent of how long you'll live, compared with the average, is explained by your parents' longevity; by contrast, up to 90 percent of how tall you are is explained by your parents' height. Even genetically identical twins vary widely in life span: the typical gap is more than fifteen years. If our genes explain less than we imagined, the classical wear-and-tear model may explain more than we knew. — Atul Gawande

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being
forgive me
rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger. — J.K. Rowling

I am always looking for what I think are original voices. — Lorne Michaels

When I saw that show Lost I learned something. Other than one sort of big dude if you're in an airplane crash only models survive. So you know sit next to somebody pretty, but anyhow. — Billy Bob Thornton

If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies. — Phineas Quimby

Do not think your single vote does not matter much. The rain that refreshes the parched ground is made up of single drops. — Kate Sheppard

I love trolling around the internet and I am nuts like an 8-bit Monkey on cocaine. — Sultan Khan