"How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light."

-- William Cowper

#Arrows Quotes #Light Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I'm really going to do my homework. I'm going to be down there on the practice tee finding out if a guy's wife beat him up the night before, important stuff like that. Stuff that people want to know.”
“Why are all Christians happy and praising Jesus? It's because we are not DEAD! We may be imperfect, but we aren't DEAD!”
“It all begins, I maintain, with that powerful and underutilized thing called love. God's love for the individual is displayed by those people who reflect his love in their words and deeds. It ultimately gets understood and accepted by the child in poverty, and through that individual's love for others, the world gets changed.”

Source : Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.191, WaterBrook
“Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Never go for a 50-50 ball unless you're 80-20 sure of winning it.”
“A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.”
“I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true.”
“The physiological law of Transfer of Energy is the basis of human success and happiness. There is no action without expenditure of energy, and if energy be not expended the power to generate it is lost. This law shows itself in a thousand ways in the life of man. The arm which is not used becomes palsied. The wealth which comes by chance weakens and destroys. The good which is unused turns to evil. The charity which asks no effort cannot relieve the misery she creates.”

Source : David Starr Jordan (1983). “The strength of being clean: the physiological laws governing the pursuit of happiness ; The philosophy of hope : understanding the process by which hope displaces despair : an owners manual to the human soul”

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