Academic Quotes

If literature survives at all, it is as retreat for those who refuse to assimilate to American mass culture.

Life is a series of lessons, some of them obvious, some of them not. We learn as we go that dreams end, that plans get changed, that promises get broken, that our idols disappoint us.

We see in Nature what we have been taught to look for, we feel what we have been prepared to feel.

Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power-the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments-what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power.

Erik Brynjolfsson
Erik Brynjolfsson
Your task as a leader is to help others to succeed, not to strive only for your own success. If I don't trust your motives, nothing else will matter -because my primary concern is your integrity.

Integration is... leading to cultural negation.

The true leader serves. Serves people. Serves their best interests, and in doing so will not always be popular, may not always impress. But because true leaders are motivated by loving concern than a desire for personal glory, they are willing to pay the price.

If the study of Pearl Harbor has anything to offer for the future, it is this," Mrs. Wohlstetter wrote in her book: "We have to accept the fact of uncertainty and live with it. No magic, in code or otherwise, will provide certainty.

Decision makers operating under excessive scrutiny tend to make the choices that are the easiest to justify rather than those they think are the best.

Remember that when an employee enters your office he is in a strange land. He feels the atmosphere of authority; he is constrained and hesitant. Make him feel at ease.

In the natural sciences as in more practical affairs, how we have arrived is as important as where we have arrived.

Ernest Fox Nichols
Ernest Fox Nichols
Desire for God without doctrine is blind; doctrine without desire is empty.

The Word of God was not written to satisfy our curiosity; it was written to # change our lives.

The problem is not that of the sickness of an acquisitive society; it is that of the acquisitiveness of a sick society.

Elton Mayo
Elton Mayo
You will remember some of what you hear; much of what you read; more of what you see, and almost all of what you experience and understand fully.

Injury is the thing every exhausting piece of strategy and every single weapon is designed to bring into being: it is not something inadvertently produced on the way to producing something else but is the relentless object of all military activity.

The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist.

I do not know of any divine commands. I do know of most important human ones. I do not know the needs of a god or of another world.... I do know that women make shirts for seventy cents a dozen in this one. I do know that the needs of humanity and this world are infinite unending constant and immediate. They will take all our time our strength our love and our thoughts; and our work here will be only then begun.

Helen H. Gardener
Helen H. Gardener
It is true that the torch of science grows brighter with each passing year, and shoots its rays deeper into the enveloping darkness, but mystery is ever with it. Science proposes more questions than it solves.

Was sorcery a gift given to a few, like poetry? Did the Lord come, lift you up, then drop you forever?

Charles R. Johnson
Charles R. Johnson
Not only do we cheat ourselves and those around us if we are only glum or always wary when it comes time to respond to divine stirrings. No, we are then also being simply unfaithful to the surrounding reality. The one who purges gloom has given occasions and reasons, in the midst of life's sadness, to be joyful.

In its most basic sense, organizational memory refers to stored information from an organization's history that can be brought to bear on present decisions. This information is stored as a consequence of implementing decisions to which they refer, by individual recollections, and through shared interpretations.

Which is easier to believe in, probability or God?...The ultimate fraud is the scientific atheist who believes in probability.

Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.

We ignore thriller writers at our peril. Their genre is the political condition. They massage our dreams and magnify our nightmares. If it is true that we always need enemies, then we will always need writers of fiction to encode our fears and fantasies.