More than any other factor, it is the people we have to deal with that determine the quality of our work lives.

What is important is what inspires persistence and determination- in other words what you care about.

Professional is not a label you give yourself - it's a description you hope others will apply to you.

Stop teaching students that they are the best and the brightest.

Success comes from doing what you enjoy. If you don't enjoy it, how can it be called success?

Left untended, knowledge and skill, like all assets, depreciate in value surprisingly quickly.

No one can manage you if you don't give them permission to do so. But if you are interested in accomplishing as much as you are capable of, then I believe there are good reasons to grant that permission.