"In an age of constant live connections, the central question of self-examination is drifting from â€˜Who are you?â€™ towards â€˜What are you doing?"

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Source : Tom Chatfield, The School of Life (2012). “How to Thrive in the Digital Age”, p.32, Pan Macmillan

Tom Chatfield

#Self Quotes #Age Quotes #Examination Quotes

“You can't educate a child who isn't healthy, and you can't keep a child healthy who isn't educated.”
“Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.”
“I often find things at thrift stores and library sales that I never could have been looking for. In those cases, the research is done after the fact to figure out what, exactly, I've found. It's surprising how much out there still has no online presence.”
“Romantic love was invented to manipulate women”

Source : Jenny Holzer, Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1990). “The Venice installation: United States Pavilion, the 44th Venice Biennale, May 27-September 30, 1990”, Distributed Art Pub Inc
“I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.”
“Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.”

Source : Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Volume IV, 1928.
“There are good characters and bad characters.”
“The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.”

Source : Waverley Root (1996). “Food”, William S. Konecky Associates

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