Eric Mazur Quotes
I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm an atheist and a humanist, so I have no desire to evangelize anyone.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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Smart people tend to know what is happening in a group situation and how to deal with others in the most effective way. They ask good questions, listen to what others are saying, and stay engaged in conversations intently.
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Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.
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I try to win every tournament.
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I was a sophomore in college, and I did an industrial video about how to use the Internet - that dates me! It was with John Turturro, somehow they had gotten John Turturro to do this thing, and I was so excited and so nervous I probably drank 10 cups of coffee that morning.
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I think you have to be really lucky to pick the sort of roles you want to do.
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We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming.
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Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.
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What we want as an economy is companies and people, you know, working hard to come up with creative ways to be more productive. We don't want companies and people working hard to lobby government for special tax cuts.
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Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.
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Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.
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My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was going on in the invisible world, the survival of the consciousness, precipitated paintings, mediumship, and trans-channeling.
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Obviously, I wasn't expecting Wall Street to be a laid-back place. I was prepared for hard work. Sadly, much of the work the new guys were asked to do and the insane hours we were expected to keep had little to do with making the bank more productive. It felt more like hazing.
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Peter Montiel has long set the highest standard for lucid textbooks on the macroeconomics of developing countries. Now in this new edition of his superb classic Macroeconomics in Emerging Markets, he has surpassed even himself. He uniquely fills the gap between rich-country-obsessed macro- and micro-obsessed developing-country analysis. No student of the macroeconomics of development will henceforward be able to do without this book.
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I look at Van Halen as social workers. What we're really doing is creating jobs for rock critics.
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A patient, humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish and overlooked by the aspiring.
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I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material.
