Jim Jeffords famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.
If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initial failure and subsequent success, in the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation. We suffer because we cannot spontaneously master the ingredients of fulfillment.
We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness...
We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next.
When something important is going on, silence is a lie.
Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.

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