Derek Bok Quotes
Although professors regard improving critical thinking as the most important goal of college, tests reveal that seniors who began their studies with average critical thinking skills have progressed only from the 50th percentile of entering freshmen to about the 69th percentile.Derek Bok
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
Ed Koch -
I feel the happiest when I'm at the golf course. And I feel calm when I'm on the golf course. I think I'm just a much better person when I'm on the golf course.
Inbee Park -
In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.
Jack Welch -
If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
Tamron Hall -
Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
Karen Salmansohn -
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster
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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
Kate Bush -
I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.
Wallace Shawn -
I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
Lady Gaga -
Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
Cameron Diaz -
I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is genius. He always takes risks.
Bebe Rexha -
I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
Victoria Pendleton
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Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.
Vicente Fox -
Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I've never been in love before - I don't really know? I think I have. I guess it's subjective in that way.
Lady Gaga -
I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
Valerie Plame -
I know it's silly, but I still think I'm 28.
Naomi Watts -
You've got to be yourself, and if you're not, you're a phony. It comes shining through if you're not careful.
Jack Harbaugh -
As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that's how we get judged by our colleagues and that's how we get judged by the good lord.
Rahm Emanuel
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I think it is true to say that I am not the first Nobel Prize winner in economics to have little formal training in economics.
Clive Granger -
You can't exercise your way out of a bad diet.
Mark Hyman -
My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books.
Alejandro Amenabar -
If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you are doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking.
Lou Holtz -
Then there was LSD, which was supposed to make you think you could fly. I remember it made you think you couldn't stand up, and mostly it was right.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Although professors regard improving critical thinking as the most important goal of college, tests reveal that seniors who began their studies with average critical thinking skills have progressed only from the 50th percentile of entering freshmen to about the 69th percentile.
Derek Bok