Alden W. Clausen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I spend 60 percent of my time planning, 60 percent with people, and all other duties are completed with whatever time is left
-- Alden W. Clausen

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Chop your own path. Get off the car track
There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with the best, most generous, most sympathetic understanding of human reality.
Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all inspiration. Which is to say, if all else fails: take a bike ride.
Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
Forethought spares afterthought.
What were you going to do with it?â€ McCain asked. "I just thought it might come in useful.â€ "Were you planning to attack me?â€ "No. But thatâ€™s a good idea.

Alden W. Clausen famous quotes

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