"I feel that if I had not had an art program in my school, I would have failed in a big way. My teachers knew I was intelligent, but they didn't quite know how I was ever going to apply that intelligence. The one or two teachers who knew me well knew that it would be through drawing or acting or whatever means of expression I was allowed."

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Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net

David Small

#Teacher Quotes #Art Quotes #School Quotes

“I have real admiration for chefs who can maintain an edge and find new inspiration in their cooking after many years.”
“To solve big problems you have to be willing to do unpopular things.”

Source : Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.354, Bantam
“Animals, like us, have rich and spacious interiors. They contain inner landscapes: desert places and lonely canyons, cliffs of madness and rivers or serene awareness that merge in tranquil seas.”

Source : Gary Kowalski (2007). “The Souls of Animals”, p.84, New World Library
“A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.”
“A recurring ideal, I find, is that of simplicity. At times there comes the desire to write with great precision and clarity, words so simple and moving that they bring tears to the eyes.”
“Steve Jobs is someone I've studied inside and out, and I've applied so many of his techniques and philosophies to my businesses. It's a remote mentorship because I've never met him.”
“There are some singer-songwriters who start out as poets. So someone like Leonard Cohen wrote and published poetry in the early 60s, but then started writing songs. Bob Dylan's a poet in the sense of bard, aoidos or vates.”
“I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.”

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