"If we don't give kids the opportunity to fail when they're growing up, and to fail productively, to fail creatively, that they're going to get out there into the world and they're going to hit some kind of setback, like everybody does, and they're going to get completely derailed."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Paul Tough

#Growing Up Quotes #Kids Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“In the future there cannot be room for ambiguity. They have to make their position absolutely clear before they can expect anyone to respond to it.”
“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”

Source : Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”
“How much more do they deserve our reverence and praise, whose lives are devoted to the formation of institutions, which, when they and their children are mingled in the common dust, may continue to cherish the principles and the practice of liberty in perpetual freshness and vigour.”
“Life is simple. Life is not complicated. Life is only one thing: Identify yourself.”
“Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture... like Van Gogh... so who's to say what's good and bad?”
“I know a lot of choreographers prefer to do abstract dance and not be bothered with a story, but even when I'm asked to do classical ballet or a modern piece, I still want to tell a story.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including the basis of human life and happiness. Such is the life of the slaveâ€”one whose actions are compelled by threat to survival. Perhaps the deepest indication of our slavery is the monetization of time.”

Source : Charles Eisenstein (2011). “Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition”, p.30, North Atlantic Books
“Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.”

Source : Ernst Haeckel (1916). “Eternity; World-war Thoughts on Life and Death, Religion, and the Theory of Evolution”

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