Being senior enough in the field, having enough solidity, I don't feel afraid of being marginalized.
Interpretation
Confidence in one's experience and contributions can mitigate the fear of being overlooked.
In this quote, Elizabeth Blackburn expresses that her experience and established position in her field grant her a sense of security and resilience. She suggests that when one is confident in their expertise and contributions, they are less likely to fear marginalization, highlighting the importance of self-assurance and recognition of one's value in professional environments.
In practice
In a presentation about professional growth, one might quote Blackburn to emphasize the value of confidence in overcoming challenges.
Cancer cells have had so many other things go wrong with them, genetic, non-genetic changes, that those cells, one of the things they then get selected for is that they have lots of telomerase because now the telomeres in those cells get maintained.
We and other groups are seeing clear statistical links between telomere shortness and risk for a variety of diseases that are becoming very common, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and certain cancers.
Checking your telomere length is a bit like weighing yourself: you get this single number which depends on a lot of factors. Telomere length gives a sense of your underlying health.
We think there are lifestyle factors that boost telomerase naturally.
For me, arguably the story of telomeres and telomerase began thousands of years ago, in the cornfields of the Maya highlands of Central America.
If we think of our chromosomes - they carry our genetic material - as being like shoelaces, I work on the plastic tips at the end that protect them.
Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.
Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
The Young Soldier It is not death Without hereafter To one in dearth Of life and its laughter, Nor the sweet murder Dealt slow and even Unto the martyr Smiling at heaven: It is the smile Faint as a (waning) myth, Faint, and exceeding small On a boy's murdered mouth.
Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
You do wonder - when you are at 28,000 feet, the height that aeroplanes cruise at, when you are struggling to draw breath and every limb aches - why do I do this?
Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death.
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