"I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made."

-- Sean Penn

#Light Quotes #Way Quotes #Made Quotes

“The trouble with flowers is that invariably, when I'm ready to photograph them, they are not in season.”
“I call the years when our children are between six and twelve the "golden years," not because everything's perfect . . . but because the kids are capable and independent. . . . They're becoming fascinating human beings who continually astound us and make us laugh. And they build our self-esteem. They still adore us for the most part, not yet having reached that age of thinking everything we do is dumb, old-fashioned and irrelevant.”
“We can glut ourselves with how-to-raise children information . . . strive to become more mature and aware but none of this will spare us from the . . . inevitability that some of the time we are going to fail our children. Because there is a big gap between knowing and doing. Because mature, aware people are imperfect too. Or because some current event in our life may so absorb or depress us that when our children need us we cannot come through.”
“In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records. And I wanted everything that went along with it.”
“Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.”

Source : Neil Postman (2011). “The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School”, p.70, Vintage
“Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.”
“It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.”
“To close the empathetic gap, you really want to get the person emotionally identifying [with your subject and characters], and then when you do that, then you want sneak in a lesson about history and about politics and whatever else you might think about.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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