"Teenagers learn best by doing things, they learn best in teams and they learn best by doing things for real - all the opposite of what mainstream schooling actually does."

-- Geoff Mulgan

#Children Quotes #Real Quotes #Teenager Quotes

“There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature or from the arts - a sense of wonder.”
“There was no one around me who didn't work hard.”
“When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.”
“Life is the best and only timekeeper.”
“Weirdly, I was still trying to be the older brother, and trying to get him [ Tom Berninger] to try to be more like me a little bit. Or not be more like me but ... I was frustrated that he sometimes let things stop him in his life, and he let the wind get knocked out of his sails a few times.”

Source : "Matt and Tom Berninger: 'I don't have anything good on the National and I just have myself really drunk'". Interview with David Daley, www.salon.com. April 27, 2014.
“If you look at movies with Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart and all the rest of it, none of them looks like a boy. They always looked like mature men. The audience didn't want to go and see kids.”

Source : "Tom Conti: 'I knew nothing at all about street dance ... '". Interview With Henry Barnes, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2012.
“About all you can do in life is be who you are.”
“The 80/20 principle - that 80 percent of result flow from just 20 per cent of the causes - is the one true principle of highly effective people.”

Source : Richard Koch (2011). “Living the 80/20 Way, New Edition: Work Less, Worry Less, Succeed More, Enjoy More”, p.188, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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