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.
We need the courage to face the truth about what we are doing in the world and act responsibly to change it.
I was the first man to climb the world's 14 tallest peaks without supplementary oxygen, but I never asked how high I would go, just how I would do it.
What do you have to fear? Nothing. Whom do you have to fear? No one. Why? Because whoever has joined forces with God obtains three great privileges: omnipotence without power, intoxication without wine, and life without death.
If they hadn’t tried to break me down, I wouldn’t know that I’m unbreakable.
It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree.
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
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