To the class of 2022,
I am honored to be selected by you as the recipient of this year’s Emory Williams Teaching Award. For more than three decades, it continues to be my privilege to be part of this amazing journey of lifelong learning at Booth and beyond.
In my own journey, one of my lifelong learning habits is to collect bits of wisdom that I learn from others. And, as I say, “if you don’t write it down it doesn’t exist,” I tend to capture these nuggets of “gist” on sticky notes placed so that like my students, I can also “be wiser, younger.”
For the first time ever, in honor of the graduating class of 2022, I have gathered a collection of my sticky notes which I present to you with hope that my habit might be of benefit to your future self. Sources are named for the quotes, if known to me.
“Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future.” –David Whyte
“You can get a lot done if you build relationships with people.”
“People want to say yes. If you don’t ask, we can’t say yes.”
“There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.” –Madeleine Albright
“A good friend tells the truth.”
“Autonomy is being who you want to be and knowing who you are.”
“There are so many ways to be valuable in this world; you have value wherever you are.”
“It’s not about having the answers; it’s about the work you put in to get them.”