Kevin Coleman
“What’s the saying? ‘Wherever you are is where you’re supposed to be.’”
“I’m not a good dancer. But hey...what I’ve learned is that no one’s really watching.”
“Mom would always tell us that, particularly my sisters: ‘Never date a guy you have to take care of.’”
“Looks don’t sustain.”
Laurel Noel
“I do like the line ‘Sometimes you are the windshield and sometimes you are the bug.’ I prefer not to be the bug!”
“Life is about balance, enjoying what you have been blessed with, and challenging yourself every day.”
Matthew Fry
“[As a lawyer], you can’t walk down the street anymore and look at a normal interaction between two people and not think of it as a contract. You’re walking down the street and somebody’s like, “Oh, I’ll see you at dinner at 8,” and the other person is like, “See you at 8,” and it’s like oh, we’ve got a contract.”
“I’ll never forget coming home from taking a test and stressing the entire night about what I’d answered wrong and right. [My mom] established that it was over with, that I could do nothing to fix it, so why stress? Why don’t I just wait until I get the results and then I can stress?”
Shane Cohn
“We’re a society that’s really built around food: ‘Let’s go to breakfast.’ It’s insane, the number of lunch meetings and dinner meetings and happy hours that revolve around food.”
“Oftentimes, we’re meeting people who, you know, we didn’t grow up with them, we didn’t live next door to them, we didn’t go to school with them, so I like to try and get to know someone before I end up in a relationship with them.”
Danica Mathes
“Law students, especially, are very interesting. Because they think that they know everything. It’s like: 'You kids have no idea.'”
“Life is an awesome adventure, and I try to keep my eye on the destination while enjoying the journey.”
Jennifer Gnerlich
“I thought surgeons, to be honest, were like the most knowledgeable people in the hospital, because they knew the medical disease but they could also operate, and nobody else could do that. That’s like instant gratification of helping someone.”
“I say this all the time: ‘The enemy of good is better.’ I probably just said it in surgery today or yesterday. Say you’re operating, and you almost have all the tissue out, but it’s right against the artery and you should just leave it. But you really want it all out, so when you do it, you hit the artery and the patient starts bleeding. That’s why I say it all the time: If you go that extra mile, you may end up causing more harm than good.”
Patrick R. Brown
“If you really want to do something, I fully believe—and this has been explained to me over and over and over again—that you make time to do it. Things that I really want to do, I make happen.”
“You bring people to a personal level outside of being behind your desk, or in your official capacity, and you make strides that way.”
“Times are tight. Dress sharp, but think smart.”
Stacey Wehe
“Everyone thinks we [architects] sit around with huge sketchpads and draw these fantastic things all day. No. I just spent half of my day going back and forth on the phone discussing two inches in a building.”
“In preschool, someone was pulling my hair, and my dad recommended that I push him. In hindsight, the lesson learned is, ‘Don’t be afraid to stand up for yourself.’ But at the time, punching one of my classmates got me sent to stand in the corner for the rest of the day.”
Casey Cathcart
“My motto: Live life for yourself and don’t worry about what other people think of you.”
“My mom always jokes with me that when I was 2 or 3 years old, I used to want to be a trash-truck driver. And she’s like, ‘No you don’t.’”
Angella Sharpe
“Once you hit one goal, you have to move on.”
“Favorite dish? Not really. Like I said, food is pretty much…I’m pretty happy with food. Food’s good.”
Shanna Samson
“I believe life is not about what you are doing or where you are, but how you perceive your circumstances; however, I also believe in setting goals and promoting self-evolution.”
“I think that people living in poverty, and living without healthcare, and living without adequate basic needs, that that is a direct result of the race relations and the political relations between countries.”
“I can’t necessarily say that I meditate to relax, but that’s what I’m working on, really trying to be present and spending 15 minutes in the morning and 15 minutes before I go to bed and just clearing my mind. I can tell you, the times that I’ve meditated daily in my life are the best times in my life, and it has nothing to do with where I am. It’s about my state of mind.”
Keath Hausher
“It blows my mind that people still smoke, or how it ever got started in the first place. Caveman picks up a burning stick and inhales the fumes…his eyes water, he coughs, then throws up. Later that day, he does it several more times. Seriously?”
“There’s nothing that I fear, I’m just one of those guys who will say, ‘OK, great, I’ll do it’—except for karaoke. And to get me on the dance floor basically requires either a firearm or an act of God.”
“[One of my former students] sent me an email that choked me up. It really gave me a lump in my throat even thinking about it. He said, ‘You know that day that I hated you, that time I couldn’t stand it? You saved a life. This specialist [under my command] is going home to his family because of something that you taught me.’ And that was the most powerful thing that I’ve ever read in my life.”
Mike Weiss
“I think a lot of people’s careers are like a process of elimination. I started off to be kind of a corporate architect, whatever that means—and the next thing I know, I’m wearing a collared shirt, and I’m getting up in the dark, leaving work in the dark, and interacting with some people who…the only thing that we really have in common is that we’re employees of the same place.”
“I always had a relationship approach like, when you meet the right person and things are clicking, things almost happen without explanation. And hopefully they happen for a long time.”
Tammie Holland
“If you’ve gotten to this point in life and you haven’t learned about yourself, then it’s time to get back to the drawing board and figure it out. Life is too short to be unhappy or to have a bunch of question marks.”
“I have no regrets about any of my experiences from the days of my carefree twenties. I was kissed under the Eiffel Tower and once had a beautiful candlelit dinner on the banks of the Nile. But in my thirties…it’s all completely changed for me. The process has become secondary to my child, my career, and even myself. I still enjoy dating, and will ever remain the hopeless romantic. I just don’t allow it to consume me, because I have so many other things to do.”
“I like to tell young people who admire me to always follow their first line and to really, really mind their dreams and follow them.”
“One of my favorite poems in life is the “Desiderata” by Max Ehrmann, and I often quote different parts of it. One line says that we should be comfortable with our station in life. I have a grandmother who is 95 years old. In relation to my grandmother, who is very viable at 95, and me at 38, I’m a baby. So I’m OK with it.”
Paul Wegman
“I have no grand plan of how this is all going to pan out for me, other than to keep trying, and hopefully, I’ll find somebody when I least expect it.”
“It definitely can get in the way, being busy and not having time for someone else. Making time for that person obviously can be a challenge.”
“This can be heaven on earth or it can be, you know, hell, no matter how you look at it.”
Julie Stotlar
“I really don’t have a favorite place for a date; I think it’s all about the person you’re with and the vibe that two people have together.”
“I think where a man takes you on your first date is very telling about his personality and his intentions.”
