Career Advice
Dean Kamen
… [I have] a vision of a day when brains become as celebrated in America as brawn . . . that sports [will] remain merely as passtimes and that the world needs the smarts of young people to tackle larger problems. Clean water, clean air, health care, getting people out of ignorance and poverty –
– that’s important. ~ Dean Kamen,inventor (as quoted in the Washington Post)
Eleanor Roosevelt
We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Peter Sellars
In America, there’s this giant gulf between art and life. It’s not part of the ongoing texture of things, something we could encounter when we go to the supermarket. Instead, art is this bizarre thing with people wearing costumes in Lincoln Center. It’s all these people watching while all these other people are doing. ~ Peter Sellars
Buckminster Fuller
Quite cleary nature did not tell the honeybee to go out and crosspollinate the vegetation. What nature did was to genetically program the honeybee to go after the honey and inadvertently crosspollinate . . . What nature told humanity (genetically) was, I’m hungry, my kids are hungry; I’m cold, my kids are cold. Go after that food and coat. They cost money–go after the money. They say you have to earn it. OK, I’ll earn it. Buzz, buzz, honey-money bee. No human genes are programmed to say– go make the world work for everybody– only your creative mind can tell you that. ~ Buckminster Fuller
Dean Kamen
Why change the world? To me that’s what life is about. If you don’t do that, you might as well hybernate and sleep. If everyone thinks what you do is “normal” . . . it probably is. Why do that? Do something else! ~ Dean Kamen, Inventor of “Segway”
Nikos Kazantzakis
By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist, we create it. The nonexistant is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Benjamin R. Barber
I went into the academic world under the illusion that it was a place where people cared passionately about ideas, about teaching, about discourse, about reflecting critically. What I discovered was a world of small-minded, partisan professionals, many of whom where there because they couldn’t figure out what else to do. So I created a life inside the academy that reflected the life I wanted to lead.
~ Benjamin R. Barber, author of “Jihad Vs McWorld”
Arnold Toynbee
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. ~ Arnold Toynbee
William Jennings Bryan
Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: it is not to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. ~ William Jennings Bryan