"Life is the best teacher."

-- Anthony D. Williams

#Inspirational Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Educational Quotes

“In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.”

Source : "Ravi Shankar Dead: Indian Sitar Virtuoso Dies At 92". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2012.
“The rewrites are a struggle right now. Sometimes I wish writing a book could just be easy for me at last. But when I think about it practically, I am glad it's a struggle. I am (as usual) attempting to write a book that's too hard for me. I'm telling a story I'm not smart enough to tell. The risk of failure is huge. But I prefer it this way. I'm forced to learn, forced to smarten myself up, forced to wrestle. And if it works, then I'll have written something that is better than I am.”
“Man worships because God lays His hand to the dust of our experience, and man miraculously becomes a living soul - and knows it and wants to worship.”
“The world is a stage, the stage is a world of entertainment.”

Source : Howard Dietz (1974). “Dancing in the dark”
“I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!”
“It's really important to be active in your community, whatever community that is... find allies and find people who you relate to and who make you stronger as a group.”
“The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.”
“Do I think I'm under-educated? Academically, absolutely. I never took any exams, no O- or A-levels.”

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