Wilbanks Quotes & Sayings

For years, I kept a Post-it note above my desk. WORK NOT LOVE! was what it said. It seemed a sturdier kind of happiness. — Jenny Offill

If a scientist is reading a paper online and clicks through to purchase material, there's value there. It might be a business model; it might be enough to defray the cost of open access. I just want to create the infrastructure that makes movement and sharing easier. — John Wilbanks

And that's why I love you," she said, smiling. "Because occasionally, and quite unexpectedly, you sound like a sonnet. — Scott Wilbanks

I didn't know what gay was until I lived in New York for 10 years. You know, I was just underexposed in that regard. — Isaiah Washington

We were not taught financial literacy in school. It takes a lot of work and time to change your thinking and to become financially literate. — Robert Kiyosaki

Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it. — John Wilbanks

I'm proposing ... that we reach into our bodies and we grab the genotype, and we reach into the medical system and we grab our records, and we use it to build something together. — John Wilbanks

P.S. I offer a topic for discussion. The past is nothing more than the present romanticized, while the future is history with imagination. Any thoughts? — Scott Wilbanks

No pharmaceutical company is making money by selling biological knowledge - they make money by selling chemicals. So getting as much of that knowledge as possible into the efficiency of the Web-commerce world is going to make it faster to find those chemicals. — John Wilbanks

Perhaps, that is the way of friends, to love one another for their imperfections, not despite them. — Scott Wilbanks

Knowledge is a public good and increases in value as the number of people possessing it increases. — John Wilbanks

You use what moves you. — Laura Ruby

With your Christmas-Day-will-never-arrive-soon enough salivations, you anticipate the moment when, like voracious cub lions, you'll rip open the wrapping paper and feast off your every delicious present. — Carew Papritz

You are enough, which I believe is critical for any human being to get in their bones. — KaDee Strickland

Naked and pure is the spirit that transcends the existence mediocre. — John Wilbanks

Never lower yourself for others. Make them rise to you. Whether they can or not is their burden, not yours. — Scott Wilbanks

In his sophomore year Wilbanks tried out for the high school basketball team and made it. On the first day of practice his coach had him play one-on-one while the team observed. When he missed an easy shot, he became angry and stomped and whined. The coach walked over to him and said, "You pull a stunt like that again and you'll never play for my team." For the next three years he never lost control again. Years later, as he reflected back on this incident, he realized that the coach had taught him a life-changing principle that day: anger can be controlled. — Lynn G. Robbins

A dream is a slippery thing, plucking and bending and toying with our memories, sometimes acting as a bridge between the living, the loved, and the loved no-longer-living, but more often than not acting as a lesson not quite learned. — Scott Wilbanks

I think we need people in Washington who really have more of a sense of a George Washington approach to it, which is to serve and go home. I think far too many of both parties see it as a career. And I don't think that's good for our country. — Scott Rigell

Promise me you won't sacrifice your happiness for something so cheap as acceptance. Find your courage. — Scott Wilbanks

The best offense is a good defense, but a bad defense is offensive. — Gene Wolfe

Music is one of the ways that God has of beating in on man. — Charles Ives

But it is human to be outraged by injustice, even to the point of courting destruction! — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Property is, after all, a social convention, an agreement about someone's exclusive right to use a thing in specified ways. However, we seem to have forgotten this. We seem to think that property belongs to us in some essential way, that it is of us. We seem to think that our property is part of ourselves, and that by owning it we therefore make ourselves more, larger, greater. — Charles Eisenstein