"For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain."

-- Dorothy L. Sayers

#Educational Quotes #Men Quotes #Effort Quotes

“A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.”
“If you don't got endz, you won't be gettin' no skinz, And if you don't got money, you won't scoop a honey. If you don't got cash, you won't be gettin' no ass, And if you don't got loot, you won't be knockin' no boots.”
“One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every way: economically, socially, as well as at the hands of the police -- because if we went out on the street to play baseball, for example, the police would come and beat us up and put us in prison.”
“The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“But if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can feel truly at home. The sum of a field's forces [become] what we call very loosely the 'spirit of the place.' To know the spirit of a place is to realize that you are a part of a part and that the whole is made or parts, each of which in a whole. You start with the part you are whole in.”

Source : Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.41, Counterpoint Press
“The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.”

Source : 1950 The Liberal Imagination.
“There's definitely a voice and I always speak my work aloud. I have a lot of old people in my head, most of them dead now, but I always hear how they would say things, my grandparents and my neighbors.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I think the destiny of all men is not to sit in the rubble of their own making but to reach out for an ultimate perfection which is to be had. At the moment, it is a dream. But as of the moment we clasp hands with our neighbor, we build the first span to bridge the gap between the young and the old. At this hour, it’s a wish. But we have it within our power to make it a reality. If you want to prove that God is not dead, first prove that man is alive.”

Source : Rod Serling's speech at Moorpark College in Moorpark, California, December 3, 1968.

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