Derek Bok Quotes

If you think education's expensive, try ignorance.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.

If You Think Education Is Expensive, Wait Until You See How Much Ignorance Costs in the 21st Century.

Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.

The best education is to be had at a price, as well as the best broadcloth.

Believe anything is possible and then work like hell to make it happen.

But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.

Adversity, if you allow it to, will fortify you and make you the best you can be.

A truly international field, no Britons involved.

There's few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.

The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill.

Sometimes the difference between winning and losing is will. The will to make it happen.

The daily activity that contributes most to happiness is having dinner with friends. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Eat more. Commute less.

Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.

Everyone knows what a hypocrite is. That's the guy who gripes about the sex, violence and nudity on his VCR.

The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.

When faced with the inevitable, you always have a choice... As I learned during my liberal arts education, any symbol can have, in the imaginative context, two versions, a positive and a negative... If you spill your milk you're left with a glass which is either half empty or half full... You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.

I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please don't even bother asking. Don't bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.

And God says to all of us, you are no chicken; you are an eagle. Fly, eagle, fly. And God wants us to shake ourselves, spread our pinions, and then lift off and soar and rise, and rise toward the confident and the good and the beautiful. Rise towards the compassionate and the gentle and the caring. Rise to become what God intends us to be - eagles, not chickens.

You never came out the way you came in.

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

Laughing, how can you fall asleep? It brings a state of no-mind and no-thought, and does not allow you to fall asleep.

When you're out of will power you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.