Conferences are really like parties, and an A-list party is one where A-list people are in attendance. You figure out who are the really important people to invite and get them to show up as speakers or as guests. Then everybody wants to be there. If you don't know who the important people are, you shouldn't be doing a conference.
I had become monomaniacal about DNA only in 1951 when I had just turned 23 and as a postdoctoral fellow was temporarily in Naples attending a small May meeting on biologically important macromolecules.
I would like to attract more minorities into the game. But it's extremely important that this golf look like - that golf look like America.
'Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.
Work ethic is important because, unlike intelligence, athleticism, charisma, or any other natural attribute, it's a choice.
The energy you create around you is perhaps going to be the most important attribute - in the long run, EQ trumps IQ. Without being a source of energy for others, very little can be accomplished.
Our system allows you to respond to the information that is important to you. It allows you to sense and be attuned to more streams of information in parallel.
Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.
I feel more comfortable being confrontational and authoritative. It's important for women in this business.
It is urgent to shift from a traditional, authoritative, rote educational approach to a project-based and experiential approach. Specific hard skills are fundamental, but is even more important that students 'learn how to learn' and focus on crucial soft skills such as flexibility and the ability to adapt to change.
When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.
Our most important job in Congress is to provide for our national defense, and therefore, every year, Congress allocates funds and determines defense priorities in a bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA.
Under the 1991 Intelligence Authorization Act, US intelligence agencies cannot engage in covert actions abroad without a presidential finding that these operations are important to US national security.
The Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act is an important authorization for our country and for our citizens, as we have seen so vividly in the last few weeks.
Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
The most important thing is to bring people with Parkinson's into our world and for the public to have a real understanding of it, as they're beginning to have with autism.
What I've said repeatedly is, 'I think the auto industry is a very important industry.'
You don't have to do the picture, you have to do the autograph, but it's important to take that moment to make a human connection.
It's important for automated cars to be able to drive in a human-like fashion - and that does mean adapting to the driving patterns around you.
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
