"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."

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Margaret Fuller

#Inspirational Quotes #Happiness Quotes #Teacher Quotes

“People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.”
“Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young. As angels are, ripening through endless years, On one he leans: some call her Memory, And some Tradition; and her voice is sweet, With deep mysterious accords: the other, Floating above, holds down a lamp with streams A light divine and searching on the earth, Compelling eyes and footsteps. Memory yields, Yet clings with loving check, and shines anew, Reflecting all the rays of that bright lamp Our angel Reason holds. We had not walked But for Tradition; we walk evermore To higher paths by brightening Reason's lamp.”
“Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.”
“Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness.”
“Work with good directors. Without them your play is doomed. At the time of my first play, I thought a good director was someone who liked my play. I was rudely awakened from that fantasy when he directed it as if he loathed it. . . . Work with good actors. A good actor hears the way you (and no one else) write. A good actor makes rewrites easy. A good actor tells you things about your play you didn't know.”
“Now you may do it badly, you may do it well, some people like you, some people hate you, all the rest of it - but you have got a real motivating life purpose. [on being Prime Minister”
“Once I get in my mind that it's going to go "da da da dadada da da," then it's kind of like filling in the blanks.”

Source : Interview with Jon Caramanica, believermag.com. June 1, 2006.
“You know you knit too much when ... Before you buy anything, such as a hammock or curtains, you seriously wonder whether you could knit it.”

Source : Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.294, Storey Publishing

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