I'm more of a creative learner, ... I do very well in projects, but I was not good at memorizing all of that material in the introductory courses.

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.

The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly.

There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.

And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing.

Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success.

I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids doing well.

You can quickly go from having passion and love to passion and hate when an act of betrayal happens.

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.

There was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries.]

Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future? Because there is nowhere else to look.

Some people say I raised a good child. I like to think of it as my child raised a good parent.

So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash.

I'm a firm believer in research, but I'm also a firm believer in utilizing the instincts that are within your soul or in your body or in your stomach, wherever they reside.

If you don't really know someone, everyone forms an opinion. That's part of life.

Life is a miracle; walking is a miracle; watching the sunset is a miracle; everything is a miracle, because existence is a miracle!

There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated.

I keep very weird hours. I never know when I'm going to get an idea.

You can't teach it [jazz singing]. There's nobody who can teach you how to sing jazz. Either you know how to sing jazz, or you don't.