Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success.

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.

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.

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.

Three children lay on the rocks at the water's edge.A dark-haired girl, two boys, slightly older.This image is caught forever in my memory, like some fragile creature preserved in amber.

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.

See every crack, every detail. I learned to really see and not just look at my business.

You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.

As it turned out, Welcome was where I lost everything, and gained everything. Welcome was the place where my life was guided from one track to another, ending me to places I'd never thought of going.

. . . he felt himself entering a moment so real he could only run toward it, shouting.

Descartes, the Frenchman, had little trouble knowing that he existed.

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.