PZ Myers Quotes

How do you build a successful organization or culture? It's the people. The people part, in business and basketball, is huge.

People ask me to record their answering machines all the time. I love it. It's a miracle to me that people want to hear back those characters.

Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.

Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were.

A decade or so ago, all over the world, cinemas underwent one of those prince-into-frog mutations, and became, instead popcorn-restaurants, which offered the option of visual diversions for diners.

For those passionately in love, the whole world seems to smile.

Satisfaction isn't so much getting what you want as wanting what you have.

Group interaction tends to amplify people's initial inclinations

What I do with my books is to create windows to my world that all may peer into. I share the images, the feelings and thoughts, and, I hope, the delight.

We all think we're different, but when it comes around, we end up needing the same things. Somebody to love us. Somebody to respect us.

Given time, given the number of prisoners now that we're interrogating, I'm confident that we're going to find weapons of mass destruction.

We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished for at least five million years.

And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours.

I think when I have kids and grandchildren I will be very proud to have them watch this movie.

I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.

Denying rumors gave them more power.

A Minneapolis, Minnesota high school teacher hung this sign under the clock in her classroom. "Time will pass...Will you?"

Why must I be surrounded by frickin' idiots?

Buildings are tools to reach people, raise disciples, reach students, train up our kids, heal marriages and families and worship God.

I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.

I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.

It comes down to competitiveness. I hate to lose. We want people in our organization that hate to lose - that want to compete every single day, so you continue to strive to win.

the beast is the monster that destroys your dream

My point was simply that the war on global terrorism is going to be a long one, and we need to adapt as our enemy adapts.

Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it.

The interesting thing about life is, there is what you think is going to happen, and what actually happens.

Compromise is when one person wants to rob a bank and the other person does not, and they compromise to rob a person outside of the bank.

Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.

People who cannot distinguish between good and bad language, or who regard the distinction as unimportant, are unlikely to think carefully about anything else.

Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline.

If you can't help it, don't think about it

To compare Whitewater to Watergate is a travesty.

It is not helpful to have those kind of comments come out when we've got troops in combat.

If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.

Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.

That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel.

Mentoring is the cultivation of young adults, the tender caring for and nurturing of them so that they will grow, flourish, and be fruitful.

Every man knows that he will die: and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but the entity of a sane being.

Dr. Evil got shortchanged in the first one. The family dynamic between Scott and Dr. Evil - the adventures of being an evil single parent - needed to be explored.

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.

The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.

I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I'm not going to deny myself that. I think I'd be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do.

I think that Scottish people, like Canadians, are often misunderstood and what I like about my Scottish friends and relatives is how quickly it can go from love to anger. It's a great dynamic.

The important things for a mom is that her kids are watched, and are safe and it's a good care environment.

The physical world is too good a gift to be reduced to an object lesson about 'spiritual things'.

Looks to me like you've been making garbage for a while and dragging it with you. Now you need to get out of here, and that garbage is weighing you down.

And Clinton was like that - he saw the whole playing field. He didn't just see the event that he was at or the circumstances of that week or that month. He saw the whole playing field all the time.

One thing I think is least realistic is that there were five people that made decisions in the fictional 'West Wing.' In real life, there are about five million people that weigh in.