"We grow up thinking that the best answer is in someone else's brain. Much of our education is an elaborate game of 'guess what's in the teacher's head?' What the world really needs to know right now is what kind of dreams and ideas are in your head."

-- Roger von Oech

#Dream Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Growing Up Quotes

“When I gave up me, I became more. I became a captain, a leader, a better person and I came to understand that life is a team game...And you know what?...I've found most people aren't team players. They don't realize that life is the only game in town. Someone should tell them. It has made all the difference in the world to me.”
“In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece”
“I've had this look for about a year. I usually grow this beard out around Christmas. I like to go to malls dressed as Jesus, and I like to then walk around the mall and go, 'No! No! This wasn't what it was supposed to be about, people!' Then if there's a Santa at the mall, I walk up to him and say, 'Listen, fat man, you're just a clown at my birthday party.'”
“These are the people we elected and if we are not satisfied we should get new candidates. It is in our hands. It is our country. It is a very simplistic view that politicians are to blame for everything.”
“A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.”

Source : graf Leo Tolstoy (2006). “Leo Tolstoy: Spiritual Writings”
“She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.”

Source : Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald”, p.457, Simon and Schuster
“There's usually some process by which a potentially great idea gets prostituted into something lacklustre, or by which the wrong idea gets put forward.”
“In my own life, I have noticed when I have been meeting directors, that the same sentence with the same inflection can be said by a man, like: "Get me this." But if the same thing is said by a woman, it's seen as harsh and unacceptable. That always fascinates me.”

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