El Profesor Quotes & Sayings

Leaders don't assume. Assumptions are the termites of leadership. Communicate, communicate, and communicate, until you connect. — Farshad Asl

For three decades and longer we have been developing the ideas, science, and technological wherewithal to build a sustainable society. The public knows of these things only in fragments, but not as a coherent and practical agenda indeed the only practical course available. That is our fault and we should start now to put a positive agenda before the public that includes the human and economic advantages of better technology, integrated planning, coherent purposes, and foresight. — David W. Orr

Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process. — Stendhal

There's a certain secret every actor must have in his work. If you reveal it, you're letting the audience in on the wrinkles and convolutions of your brain. All I want them to do is to see the effect. — Frank Langella

We're passionate people, and passion has two sides. The side that burns so deep you can't escape it, and the side that claws away the skin and leaves you raw. — Melissa Foster

Isaac's son Jacob has a daughter, Dinah. Dinah is kidnapped and raped - apparently a customary form of courtship at the time, since the rapist's family then offers to purchase her from her own family as a wife for the rapist. Dinah's brothers explain that an important moral principle stands in the way of this transaction: the rapist is uncircumcised. So they make a counteroffer: if all the men in the rapist's hometown cut off their foreskins, Dinah will be theirs. While the men are incapacitated with bleeding penises, the brothers invade the city, plunder and destroy it, massacre the men, and carry off the women and children. When Jacob worries that neighboring tribes may attack them in revenge, his sons explain that it was worth the risk: "Should our sister be treated like a whore?" 13 Soon afterward they reiterate their commitment to family values by selling their brother Joseph into slavery. — Steven Pinker

My books have all been very deeply felt. You don't spend eight years of your life working on a trendy knockoff. In that sense I've been serious. But I don't do lots of things that other serious writers do. I don't write book reviews. I don't sit on panels about the state of the novel. I don't go to writer conferences. I don't teach writing seminars. I don't hang out at Yaddo or MacDowell. I'm not concerned with my reputation as a writer and where I stand relative to other writers. I'm not competitive or professionally ambitious. I don't think about my work and my career in an overarching or systematic way. I don't think about myself, as I think most writers do, as progressing toward some ideal of greatness. There's no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is meaningless to me. — Bret Easton Ellis

When you hear tracks everybody immediately thinks that nobody is really playing or singing. That's not the case at all. — Chris Johnson

Companies that cannot successfully answer what they do fail to then understand how they can continue to do it in the face of change. — David Amerland

People who understand grammar always have a keen sense of the ridiculous. — Mary Jane Holmes

Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion. — Guru Nanak