Experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.

Be good at something. It makes you valuable.

If you want something bad enough, never give up (and take a boost when offered).

educators best serve students by helping them be more self-reflective. The only way any of us can improve—as Coach Graham taught me—is if we develop a real ability to assess ourselves. If we can’t accurately do that, how can we tell if we’re getting better or worse?

The great thing about working out at a gym is that if you put in effort, you get very obvious results. The same should be true of college. A professor’s job is to teach students how to see their minds growing in the same way they can see their muscles grow when they look in a mirror.

I don't believe in the no-win scenario

Most people who have told a lie think they got away with it … when in fact, they didn’t