Daily Inspiration

The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.

- Drucker

inspire daily calendar Mon 15 Oct 2012

I must apply mad props to[Harry Potter's teacher] Severus Snape, who is a far snappier dresser than your average professor. I don't know what Dumbledore was paying Severus, but it was apparently enough to keep him in the latest offerings of the Johnny Cash Collection. I myself often fling open the classroom door looking like a person who just fell out of an episode of Little House on the Prairie or a Cyndi Lauper video or both. But Snape, here's a man who dressed for occult success; you can't swing an appointment as an instructor in Defense Against the Dark Arts when you're rolling the halls in a teal cardigan and loafers. It's all black, all the time, which must have made laundry day a simple affair. ("I'm ding another load of darks -- anybody want to throw in a cape? No? Turtleneck?")

- Mary Beth Ellis, "Severus Smape: One Teacher's Hero," www.msnbc.com

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