There was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another.

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.

The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly.

There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.

And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing.

Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success.

I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids doing well.

You can quickly go from having passion and love to passion and hate when an act of betrayal happens.

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.

But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.

You can never achieve greatness until you can leave bitterness behind.

I was steeped in denial, but my body knew.

It is gaol that finally reveals to me the beauty of Shakespeare, the spirit in his words, the jaw-dropping audacity of his language.

I believe that one of the reasons I get to play golf all over the world is because of the barriers that Lee Elder broke down. I just think he's amazing.

Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty.

The information I most want is in books not yet written by people not yet born.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the other to be buried.

Really it's hard to know where the Republican Party ends and the Tea Party begins.

I think maybe written films are better than real films. You can see them in your head and yet everything is exactly as you want it to be.

Phil Spector is probably a better date than Roman Polanski.