Thomas McKinnon Wood famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Be a wonderful role model because you will be the window through which many children will see their future.
-- Thomas McKinnon Wood

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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.
It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us.
Communication is an offering. When you tell someone your truth, you must release your expectation of what the other person should do with it. They may thank you profusely, love you forever, argue with you, or ignore you. It doesn't matter. Of course we hope the gift will be received with appreciation and thanks. But if it isn't we must not dictate. We've done our part, and we must trust the universe to do the rest.
I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.
I want to play positive role models - women who mean something to other women.
It feels great to be a role model and I'm very careful with the things I do. I'm not perfect, I do make a lot of mistakes, but I try my best.
A lifestyle involves a cluster of habits and orientations, and hence has a certain unity - important to a continuing sense of ontological security - that connects options in a more or less ordered pattern. (...) [T]he selection or creation of lifestyles is influenced by group pressures and the visibility of role models, as well as by socioeconomic circumstances.

Thomas McKinnon Wood famous quotes

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