"As an educator, I think educators should meet the people wherever they are. Don't even ask them to come half-way. Find them where they are, and sit on a couch with them."

-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Half Quotes

“I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.”
“Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.”
“I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.”
“We have the ability to achieve, if we master the necessary goodwill, a common global society blessed with a shared culture of peace that is nourished by the ethnic, national and local diversities that enrich our lives.”
“...and my signature is drawn in magic markeron the lower right hand corner of the windowso when something passes in the darkit's captured for a moment inside my work.”
“My favourite piece of architecture is the Royal Conservatory of Music on Bloor (273 Bloor Street West). When they cleaned up the old building a few years back, the stonework just knocked me out. It is a great melding of the Old Toronto and the new.”
“I feel certain that words can be as human as people, alive with the breath of compassion.”

Source : Margarita Engle (2013). “The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I really am not angry with Linus. Honest. He's not angry with me either.”

Source : "Some Notes on the 'Who wrote Linux' Kerfuffle, Release 1.5". www.informit.com. Jun 7, 2004.

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