"When you are in school, your talents are without number, and your promise is boundless...But at a certain point, you begin to feel your talents dropping away, like feathers from a molting bird."

-- Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

#School Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Bird Quotes

“There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.”
“A DJ can't just play one song. It's about playing a set, or how you connect songs in those two hours, and where you place them.”
“Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.”

Source : Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.43, Simon and Schuster
“I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that.”
“Trout fisherman often give away their presence to the fish by the equipment they are wearing. The yo-yo hanging on the fly fishing vest that attaches to the hemostats or line clippers is often plated with chrome, giving off flashes of light. Some fly boxes that you wear on the chest are also bright aluminum-not a good idea. I recently fished with a fellow who wore a bright yellow hat on a meadow stream in Pennsylvania. From 100 yards away you could see his every movement,-I'm sure that trout near him could, too.”
“When I was a kid and the carnival would come to the shopping centre, I'd go down and talk to all the people running the rides. I like that whole lifestyle, moving from town to town in a nomadic existence.”
“No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.”
“It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.”

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