...our students should be playing Beethoven with research processes, but instead we are hearing Mary Had a Little Lamb.

The question is not why should we change but rather what sort of death wish are we promoting by refusing to change?

He would work through the night and sleep until lunch. There wasn't really much else to do. Make something, and die.

I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of mine in the field of anthropology.

You are not a murderer. I find it difficult to think of that as a personality flaw.

You have the ability, right now, to exceed all your previous levels of accomplishment

I would rather fail trying than succeed at doing nothing.

Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.

I mean, really, whatever you woke up worrying about this morning, get over it. How important in the greater scheme of things can it possibly be? Make your peace and move on.

Whatever my situation, I'm a strong disciplinarian; I can do what I hate to do but do it like I love it.

Islam has no problem with women, but Muslims do clearly appear to have serious problems with them

Everyone dies but not everyone lives.