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’d compare college tuition to paying for a personal trainer at an athletic club. We professors play the roles of trainers, giving people access to the equipment (books, labs, our expertise) and after that, it is our job to be demanding.

Anybody can get chewed out. It's the rare person who says, oh my god, you were right. As opposed to, no wait, the reason is... We've all heard that

Go out and do for others what somebody did for you.

The fact that fashion goes out of fashion and then comes back into fashion based solely on what a few people somewhere think they can sell, well to me, that’s insanity.

I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long term.

If you’re going to have childhood dreams you should have great parents who let you pursue them and express your creativity