Derek Bok Quotes

Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.

Derek Bok

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• Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why do we tell the story the way we do? It becomes, actually, a far more meaningful and important story in its retelling than in the kind of unsophisticated way we've done it for, I think, too long.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Important
  • Long
  • Done

• You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • You
  • Peace
  • Hands

• In the schools of the Western countries, there is always the subject 'Religion.' The Classics are China's religion.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Religion
  • China
  • Countries

• I've worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Performer
  • Five-Year-Old

• Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Good
  • Acting
  • Feel Good

• As an actor, you try and be cool, but one of the reasons you become an actor is because you're a film fan. And then you're like, 'Oh my God, Ridley Scott just spoke to me!'

  

  Rafe Spall
  • God
  • Me
  • Cool

• Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress for meaningful immigration reform.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Immigration
  • Meaningful

• A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.

  

  Mae West
  • Women
  • Man
  • Fire

• What is easy is seldom excellent.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Experience
  • Easy
  • Excellent

• I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Think
  • Situation
  • Worst

• Manmohan Singh is a wise, wonderful man.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Wise

• You have to be let alone to really accomplish anything.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Alone

• For the record,'You'll Always Be a Part Of Me' no matter what you do,For the record,can't nobody say I didn't give 'My All' to you,For the record,I told you 'Underneath The Stars' that you 'Belong' to me,For the record,It's obvious that we just 'Can't Let Go' of us 'Honey'.

  

  Mariah Carey

• To understand Vers libre, one must abandon all desire to find in it the even rhythm of metrical feet. One must allow the lines to flow as they will when read aloud by an intelligent reader.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Desire
  • Intelligent

• Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

  

  Lawrence Durrell
  • Age

• There's no sinner like a young saint.

  

  Aphra Behn

• It was terribly difficult. It's not something I ever wanted in my life. Naively I just thought, 'oh I've got this great part'. I never thought about the reality of all the stuff that went with it. I'm actually quite a shy person when I'm not on stage.

  

  Elaine Paige
  • Life
  • Great
  • Reality

• I've always been a big fan of Nashville, and I have friends that live there.

  

  Eric Close
  • Live
  • Friends

• Since our peace lies in loving as God loves, we must strive to love everyone. The only love that completes us is the love of God, and the love of God is the love of everyone.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • God
  • Peace
  • Lies

• The policeman on the beat or in the patrol car makes more decisions and exercises broader discretion affecting the daily lives of people every day and to a greater extent, in many respects, than a judge will ordinarily exercise in a week.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • People
  • Car
  • Exercise

• The hardest thing in the world is to write something critical about someone and then show up the next day in the locker room. I mean, that is not fun, and that takes an awful lot of guts. And I never enjoyed that.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Up
  • World
  • Fun

• I can't swim but if my girlfriend was drowning, I'd still dive in to save her.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Girlfriend
  • Swim
  • Dive

• When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Angel
  • Deal

• Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.

  

  Derek Bok