"I never studied, but I had the best teachers,"

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Source : "Mstislav Rostropovich, 80, Dissident Maestro, Dies" by Allan Kozinn, www.nytimes.com. April 27, 2007.

Mstislav Rostropovich

#Teacher Quotes #Best Teacher Quotes

“The Trans Pacific Partnership (and fast-track authority to whisk it through Congress without debate) is fast approaching. If you haven't seen our video about it, please watch. If you have, please share. And mobilize and organize friends and colleagues to call their senators and representatives to tell them to vote against this reprehensible deal.”
“If you think you cannot do it, you set yourself up to fail anyway. Maybe it will take one more try to do it, and that is what life is about. If you don't get it right on the first try, you try again. You keep doing it and doing it until you find success!”
“You always want to be a little in over your head and be challenged to get better.”
“Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.”
“True prayer is an awareness of our helpless need and an acknowledgment of divine adequacy.”
“even when we say nothing our clothes are talking noisily to everyone who sees us, telling them who we are, where we come from, what we like to do in bed and a dozen other intimate things ...”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.”
“... the advantages of being a postman seemed more and more dubious. It is not a congenial profession for anyone who is at all sensitive, for people visit upon the postman all their first annoyance at receiving a couple of bills when they looked for a love-letter, and if a packet is insufficiently stamped they hand over the pennies as though to a despicable bandit, too outrageous to be denied, too groveling to be feared.”

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