"There are questions which illuminate, and there are those that destroy. I was always taught to ask the first kind."

-- Isidor Isaac Rabi

#Firsts Quotes #Taught Quotes #Kind Quotes

“And we passed through the cavern of rats. And we passed through the path of boiling steam. And we passed through the country of the blind. And we passed through the slough of despond. And we passed through the vale of tears. And we came, finally, to the ice caverns.”
“You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.”
“Hackman's paradox: Groups have natural advantages: they have more resources than individuals; greater diversity of resources; more flexibility in deploying the resources; many opportunities for collective learning; and, the potential for synergy. Yet studies show that their actual performance often is subpar relative to "nominal" groups (i.e. individuals given the same task but their results are pooled.) The two most common reasons: groups are assigned work that is better done by individuals or are structured in ways that cap their full potential.”
“It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.”

Source : "The Leftovers". Book by Tom Perrotta, August 30, 2011.
“I don't think my name would necessarily draw people to come see the movie. It might hurt the movie, honestly.”
“It is, after all, far too easy to pinch and kick the bizarre Mormon Church; to say it's ripe for satire and parody is to say a Catholic schoolgirl is ripe for debauchery. It's like shooting polygamist fish in a barrel of coffee.”

Source : "The end of the wicked old Mormons" by Mark Morford, www.sfgate.com. May 7, 2010.
“What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.”

Source : bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom”, p.53, Routledge
“There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.”

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