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.

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.

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.

But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.

God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.

Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.

Parenting is not giving your child everything they want. Parenting is not being your child's friend. Parenting is about preparing your child to be a useful and respectful person in society.

We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.

I was supposed to be in the NBA. I was supposed to travel the world and make the world a better place.

All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them.

I went out there to play my game for the fun of it and never based my career around records.

I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it.

I always wanted to be a teacher.

The very heart of worship, as the Bible makes clear, is the business of expressing, from the depths of our spirits, the highest possible honor we can offer before God.