Derek Bok Quotes

Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important courses such as expository writing and foreign languages are frequently taught by untrained graduate students and underpaid adjunct teachers.

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• When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • People
  • Trying
  • Career

• Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

  

  Dan Rather
  • You
  • Wisdom
  • Alligator

• I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.

  

  Karla Souza
  • Night
  • Born
  • Owl

• I am happy with my form; I just need to score a couple of goals. I want the ball. I want to create something.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Happy
  • Couple
  • Goals

• Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Day
  • Democracy
  • Everyday

• Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Moment
  • Become
  • Significance

• I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Kind
  • Sarcastic
  • Cynical

• Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?

  

  Foster Friess
  • Want
  • Doctors
  • Washington

• Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Should
  • Something
  • Talk

• If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Wind

• I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Dark
  • Find
  • Green

• My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Children
  • Man
  • Simple

• I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Up
  • Want
  • Space

• You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Life
  • Want
  • Need

• Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Good
  • Things
  • Really

• The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • Law
  • Stop

• One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • People
  • Right
  • Intelligence

• As a field archeologist, one usually has to specialize in a particular part of the world or specific culture, whereas if one is a materials specialist, one can jump around to different areas. So I've had experience on excavations all over the place.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • World
  • Different
  • Experience

• I'm not so much a shoe or bag person as jewelry, and I think it's because jewelry is like candy.

  

  Dylan Lauren
  • Candy
  • Jewelry

• My world view is that it can all go to hell in an instant, and you have to be ready for it. That's pretty much the central theme running through my work. It's about people's awareness of how uncertain life can be and their trying to guard against that.

  

  David Morrell
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody.

  

  Keenen Ivory Wayans
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Scary

• When people listen to my music, I hope that they will notice that if you take a piece by a composer like Schubert, the major and the minor triad is an extermely important thing not merely as harmony, but in creating melodic lines. Schubert is always walking up and down with arpeggios on C, E, G and so forth. I am not doing anything different really, except using a different system of harmony.

  

  Elliott Carter
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important courses such as expository writing and foreign languages are frequently taught by untrained graduate students and underpaid adjunct teachers.

  

  Derek Bok
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Trying