A coach yells at the kid he thinks can improve but the coach will not yell at the kid who he/she knows won't.

I know you're smart. But everyone here is smart. Smart isn't enough. The kind of people I want on my research team are those who will help everyone feel happy to be here.

Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want

until you got ice cream spilled on you, you’re not doing field work

Walls aren't put in our life to stop us, they are there to test how much we really want somthing.

Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress. When you're pissed off at someone and you're angry at them, you just haven't given them enough time. Just give them a little more time and they almost always will impress you.

There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet.