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Author |
Quotation |
Lines to Learning - Musings on
Education and Knowledge |
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Chinese proverb |
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember.
I do and I understand." |
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James Truslow Adams |
"There are obviously two educations.
One should teach us how to make a living. The other should teach us how
to live."
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Muhammed Ali |
"A man who has no imagination has no
wings." |
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Hans Christian Andersen |
"To be of use in the world is the only
way to happiness." |
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Aristotle |
"Life is doing things, not making things." |
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Albert Einstein |
"The only rational way of educating
is to be an example." |
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Albert Einstein |
"Only a life lived for others is a life
worthwhile." |
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Maurice Sendak |
"There must be more to life than having
everything." |
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Haim Baruch |
"People, like candles, dispel darkness;
one can illumine a corner; many can enlighten the world." |
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Erma Bombeck |
"I firmly believe kids don't want your
understanding. They want your trust, your compassion, and your blinding
love." |
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Bruno Bettelheim |
"The most important thing is for the
child to be respected." |
Horizon Lines - Thoughts on Greatness
and Achievement |
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Malcolm Stevenson Forbes |
"To measure the man, measure his heart." |
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Sir Winston Churchill |
"The price of greatness is responsibility." |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
"Nothing great was ever achieved without
enthusiasm." |
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Herodotus |
"Great deeds are usually wrought at
great risks." |
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George Chapman |
"They're only truly great who are truly
good." |
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William Shakespeare |
"Be not afraid of greatness: some are
born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon
them." |
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Mother Theresa |
"There are no great things, only small
things with great love. Happy are those." |
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C. G. Jung |
"We cannot change anything until we
accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses." |
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André Gide |
"Welcome anything that comes to you,
but do not long for anything else." |
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Abraham Lincoln |
"Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." |
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Adlai Stevenson |
"She would rather light candles than
curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world." |
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Albert Camus |
"In the depths of winter I finally learned
there was in me an invincible summer." |
Goal Lines - Inspiration from Sports |
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Thomas Jefferson |
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I
find the harder I work, the more I have of it." |
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Michael Jordan |
"You have to expect things of yourself
before you can do them." |
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John Wooden |
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere
with what you can do." |
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Joe Paterno |
"The will to win is important, but the
will to prepare is vital." |
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Satchel Paige |
"Don't look back. Something might be
gaining on you." |
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Ray Knight |
"Concentration is the ability to think
about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary." |
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William A. Ward |
"Adversity causes some men to break;
others to break records." |
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General George Patton |
"Success is how high you bounce when
you hit bottom." |
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George Shultz |
"The minute you start talking about
what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost." |
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John Keats |
"There is no fiercer hell than the failure
in a great object." |
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Herschel Walker |
"If you train hard, you'll not only
be hard, you'll be hard to beat." |
Writer's Blocks
- Writing and Poetry |
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Rollo May |
"Creativity is a yearning for immortality." |
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E. B. White |
"Be obscure clearly." |
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Bernard Malamud |
"The idea is to get the pencil moving
quickly" |
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Isaac Bashevis Singer |
"The wastepaper basket is the writer's
best friend." |
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Philip Roth |
"Satire is moral outrage transformed
into comic art." |
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John McPhee |
"Writing is a suspension of life in
order to re-create life." |
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John Steinbeck |
"A writer who does not passionately
believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership
in literature." |
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Clifton Fadiman |
"When you reread a classic you do not
see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there
was before." |
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S.I. Hayakawa |
"It is not true that we have only one
life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many
kinds as we wish." |
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John F. Kennedy |
"When power corrupts, poetry cleanses." |
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko |
"A poet's autobiography is his poetry.
Anything else can only be a footnote." |
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Stanley Kunitz |
"Poetry is language surprised in the
act of changing into meaning." |
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