That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories.

I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place.

Whatever the medium there is the difficulty challenge fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.

In the transmission of human culture people always attempt to replicate to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning not DNA.

So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama learning the literature on evolution what was known about it biologically just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular scientific view of the world.

Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.

You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue higher profitability greater capital velocity and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech character more than a claim is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.