I was intent on doing something productive and on being everything my parents taught me to be. Their values were clear: do good work; don't ever get too big for your breeches; always be an authentic person; don't worry too much about being famous and rich because that doesn't amount to too much.
Ruth SimmonsIf I can give a very substantial injection of humanistic thinking into corporations, boy, that would change things a lot.
Ruth SimmonsOne of the things we have learned in the first year is that if you want to scale-up, the first thing you have to do is to expand your own team.
Ruth SimmonsIt really pains me greatly to hear from graduate students that graduate education is a lower priority here.
Ruth Simmons