In any career, there is a moment when you are no longer need to be pushed up from below, but rather pulled up from above. Know when that moment comes and adjust your strategy accordingly.

— Clifford Cohen

It is more important to understand the book you are reading than to finish the book you are reading.

— Clifford Cohen

Just because something is ubiquitous does not mean that it is innocuous.

— Clifford Cohen

Just because you say you will do something does not mean that you are also willing to do that thing. Ensuring that both things are true is especially important in the matter of either making or receiving a proposal of marriage.

— Clifford Cohen

My philosophy of life: “Don’t just sit around doing nothing and wasting your time—get off your butt and start doing something and wasting your time.

— Clifford Cohen

Note from Alien cookbook: “The more intelligent the human is, the better it tastes.

— Clifford Cohen

Observing stupidity in others is a sure sign of stupidity in the observer.

— Clifford Cohen

People usually have to be dragged kicking and screaming into what’s good for them.

— Clifford Cohen

Rare is not synonymous with valuable.

— Clifford Cohen

Recognize and beware of the snare.

— Clifford Cohen