“I’d compare college tuition to paying for a personal trainer at an athletic club. We professors play the roles of trainers, giving people access to the equipment (books, labs, our expertise) and after that, it is our job to be demanding.”

“If nobody ever worried about what was in other people's heads, we’d all be 33 percent more effective in our lives and our jobs.”

“I've found that a substantial fraction of many people’s days is spentworrying about what others think of them. If nobody ever worriedabout what was in other people’s heads, we’d all be 33 percent moreeffective in our lives and on our jobs.”

“If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?”

“The great thing about working out at a gym is that if you put in effort, you get very obvious results. The same should be true of college. A professor’s job is to teach students how to see their minds growing in the same way they can see their muscles grow when they look in a mirror.”

“Walls aren't put in our life to stop us, they are there to test how much we really want somthing.”

“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”