"It is rare in a working environment that someone says, ‘Johnson, I need a market analysis by Friday, but before that, I need a compelling account of your childhood.'"

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Source : "Inside the Mammoth Backlash to Common Core" by Tim Murphy, www.motherjones.com. September 2014.

David Coleman

#Friday Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Needs Quotes

“I do not understand what makes me take a picture. Cartier-Bresson talks about the decisive moment, the necessity to function with lynx eyes and silk gloves. Perhaps what happens when you press the shutter is an intuitive act infused with all you have learned.”
“Every generation rediscovers and re-evaluates the meaning of infancy and childhood.”

Source : Arnold Gesell, Frances Lillian Ilg (1951). “Infant and Child in the Culture of Today: The Guidance of Development in Home and Nursery School (From the Former Clinic of Child Development, School of Medicine at Yale University)”
“Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.”

Source : "Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer". Book by Roy Peter Clark, January 10, 2008.
“Outward objects cannot take hold of the soul, nor force their passage into her, nor set any of her wheels going. No, the impression comes from herself, and it is her own motions which affect her. As for the contingencies of fortune, they are either great or little, according to the opinion she has of her own strength.”
“I try to stay under the radar.”
“The healing power of charity, bestowed by our Father and made possible by the Atonement of Jesus Christ, can make it virtually impossible for us even to feel emotions common to the natural man.”
“Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.”
“Some novel lovers have no interest in comics, and some comics fans would never take the time to read a novel.”

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