After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer. – James Tobin
My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher. – James Tobin
Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it. – James Tobin
Well, it is so difficult right now when you look out on the road and how fast people go and the more and more cars you see out there, for teenagers, youd think a kid that literally, a few years before, was sitting back in a car seat in the back seat is now behind the wheel. – Amy Klobuchar
Something that irritates you and wont let you go. Thats the anguish of it. Do this book, or die. You have to go through that. Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance. – Source Unknown