"I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have."

-- Fernando Pessoa

#Past Quotes #Live In The Present Quotes

“Did I, my lines intend for public view,How many censures, would their faults pursue,Some would, because such words they do affect,Cry they're insipid, empty, uncorrect.And many, have attained, dull and untaught,The name of wit, only by finding fault.True judges, might condemn their want of wit,And all might say, they're by a woman writ.”
“I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or five years before I arrived here.”
“A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall.”
“Nuance doesn't get retweeted.”
“Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; itâ€™s what the learner learns.”

Source : Alfie Kohn (2006). “Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason”, p.20, Simon and Schuster
“Accidents can happen at any time.”

Source : Source: www.sbnation.com
“One of the great tragedies of life, it seems to me, is when a person classifies himself as someone who has no talents or gifts. When, in disgust or discouragement, we allow ourselves to reach depressive levels of despair because of our demeaning self-appraisal, it is a sad day for us and a sad day in the eyes of God. For us to conclude that we have no gifts when we judge ourselves by stature, intelligence, grade-point average, wealth, power, position, or external appearance is not only unfair but unreasonable.”
“The emblem of a philosophy is not that it contains a set of specific thoughts , but that it generates a way of thinking.”

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