Dale J. Stephens quotes

“I left college two months ago because it rewards conformity rather than independence, competition rather than collaboration, regurgitation rather than learning and theory rather than application. Our creativity, innovation and curiosity are schooled out of us.”
-- Dale J. Stephens

Source : "College is a waste of time" by Dale Stephens, www.cnn.com. June 3, 2011.

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“The days of hair tonics have long since passed.”
-- Dale J. Stephens

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“I would have taken the time to learn how to listen earlier. Learning about non-violent communication and how to take feedback has been integral to both my personal happiness and professional success.”
-- Dale J. Stephens

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“Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.”

“A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.”

“Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.”

“The one thing that cannot be outsourced is creativity. We have to find ways to support creative people because the only way we are going to improve our laws... is by creating our way out of it.”

“We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.”

“My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.”

“I took acting classes in my senior year in college and I loved it.”

Source : "Q&A: 'Pariah' star Adepero Oduye is on the cups of stardom". Interview with Nigel Smith, www.mtv.com. December 27, 2011.

“But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.”

“The spiritual master and Krishna are two parallel lines. The train, on two tracks, moves forward. The spiritual Master and Krishna are like these two tracks. They must be served simultaneously. Krishna helps one to find bona fide Spiritual Master and bona fide Spiritual Master helps one to understand Krishna. If one does not get bona fide Spiritual Master, then how he can ever understand Krishna ? You cannot serve Krishna without Spiritual Master, or serve just Spiritual Master without serving Krishna. They must be served simultaneously.”

“If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.”