Mark Lepper famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.

  • If a Coach is determined to stay in the coaching profession, he will develop from year to year. This much is true, no coach has a monopoly on the knowledge of basketball. There are no secrets in the game. The only secrets, if there are any, are good teaching of sound fundamentals, intelligent handling of men, a sound system of play, and the ability to instill in the boys a desire to win.

  • Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

  • You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.

  • Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.

  • Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.

  • I'm not an expert on the arms race.

  • Instead of becoming the world’s expert on Buddhism, just let go, let go, let go.

  • Brain surgeons earn 10 times that of a general practitioner... it pays to be an expert.

  • High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised 'climate of risk' characteristic of late modernity - one characterised by regular shifts in knowledge-claims as mediated by expert systems.