"I do not like punishments. You will never torture a child into duty; but a sensible child will dread the frown of a judicious mother more than all the rods, dark rooms, end scolding school-mistresses in the universe."

-- Henry Kirke White

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“A man ranks lowest on the credibility index; if he refrains to appreciate the creative instinct of his acquaintances jealously, but likes the similar nature works of others especially famous persons.”
“Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.”
“Explicit knowledge, conventionally delivered like pizza (neat boxes with toppings of concepts, theories, best practices and war stories), is consumed by the brain but not metabolized into action. The learning we call intuition, know-how and common sense gets into the blood stream through osmosis. It is shaped by social context.”

Source : Richard T. Pascale, Jerry Sternin, Monique Sternin (2010). “The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems”, p.146, Harvard Business Press
“Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run”
“Honestly, I just assume that whatever is going to happen to me is going to happen. There it goes: someone is there, someone isn't there. This girl is here. This food is here. I think the clever people are the ones who do a little as possible.”

Source : "Kevin Ayers: 'I never considered another profession' - one of his final interviews". Interview with Kate Mossman, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2013.
“The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.”
“God answers prayer on the ground of Redemption and on no other ground.”
“Freestyle, especially aerials, fits the Chinese because we are good at gymnastics.”

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