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University Professor Inspirational Quotes (178)

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If your aspirations are not greater than your resources, you’re not an entrepreneur.
C. K. Prahalad
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Invest time in languages and intercultural awareness. Focus on becoming part of global citizenry. In exchange for the opportunity to participate everywhere/anywhere in the world you have the obligation to do something productive, which will improve the world. Develop a personal mission, a desire to leave personal legacy.
C. K. Prahalad
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Human beings have been smart enough to turn nature to their ends, generate vast wealth for themselves, and double their average life span. But are they smart enough to solve the problems of the 21st century?
Thomas Homer-Dixon
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If you gave kids peas that didn't look like peas and said they were a space shuttle, they're much more apt to eat them because it's now playtime.
Hod Lipson
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When ownership is local and national, and various stakeholders work together, program innovations have a greater chance to take root and survive.
Ruth Simmons
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I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.'
James Van Allen
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The office of the leisure class in social evolution is to retard the movement and to conserve what is obsolescent. This proposition is by no means novel it has long been one of the commonplaces of popular opinion.
Thorstein Veblen
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If I can give a very substantial injection of humanistic thinking into corporations, boy, that would change things a lot.
Ruth Simmons
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The end of despots is always odd?exhilarating to those who suffered their tyrannies, and to those who hold despotism in contempt, and anti-climatic at the same time, the discovery that these tyrants were petty, frightened men after all.
Fouad Ajami
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Richard Dawkins is arguably England's most pious atheist.
Simon Conway Morris
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If we're going to have better choices for women, we've got to have better choices for men.
Anne-Marie Slaughter
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Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows.
Thorstein Veblen
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It is precisely because Biblical revelation is absolutely authoritative and perspicuous that the scientific facts, rightly interpreted, will give the same testimony as that of Scripture. There is not the slightest possibility that the facts of science can contradict the Bible.
Henry M. Morris
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Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.
James Van Allen
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Governments have a legitimate concern with slowing population growth. But often this has been attempted with little concern for the individuals most affected.
Ruth Simmons
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Biological sex should not determine what we are capable of, what we aspire to, what we do in our life.
Anne-Marie Slaughter
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We're really just the frosting on a cake and we don't know what's inside the cake.
Adam Riess
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As new generations [of computers] come out, usually there are increased complexity and features, [that lead to] increased security problems. Plus, other industries have shown that every new generation has its own set of security problems.
Avi Rubin
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We felt that the Gates Foundation looked at our track record and our publications and decided that this is persuasive this needs to be done. Let's see what they can do.
Ruth Simmons
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Only when women wield power in significant numbers will we create a society that genuinely works for all women … that will be a society that works for everyone.
Anne-Marie Slaughter
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Instead of investing in the goods as they pass between producer and consumer, as the merchant does, the businessman now invests in the processes of industry.
Thorstein Veblen
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Language and words for psychopaths are only word deep there is no emotional colouring behind it. A psychopath can use a word like, ‘I love you’ but it means nothing more to him than if he said, ‘I’ll have a cup of coffee.
Robert D. Hare
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Sugar is celebratory. Sugar is something that we used to enjoy. Now, it basically has coated our tongues. It's turned into a diet staple, and it's killing us.
Robert Lustig
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It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.
Ruth Simmons
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