"With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight."

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Source : Chris Bohjalian (2010). “Secrets of Eden: A Novel”, p.325, Crown

Chris Bohjalian

#Age Quotes #Acumen Quotes #Insight Quotes

“To be different is a negative motive, and no creative thought or created thing grows out of a negative impulse. A negative impulse is always frustrating. And to be different means â€˜not like thisâ€™ and â€˜not like that.â€™ And the â€˜not likeâ€™â€”thatâ€™s why postmodernism, with the prefix of â€˜post,â€™ couldnâ€™t work. No negative impulse can work, can produce any happy creation. Only a positive one.”
“Those who give up cannot gain victory.”
“Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account.”
“Art itself cannot be taught, but craftsmanship can. Architects, painters, sculptors are all craftsmen in the original sense of the word. Thus it is a fundamental requirement of all artistic creativity that every student undergo a thorough training in the workshops of all branches of the crafts.”

Source : "Paul Klee, 1879-1940: Poet of Colours, Masters of Lines". Book by Paul Klee and Susanna Partsch, p. 47, 2000.
“The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent--I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world.”

Source : Kenneth Grahame (2012). “The Wind in the Willows: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.47, Penguin
“Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a pen knows what it's writing, or the ball can guess where it's going next.”
“Players win games, teams win championships.”
“The past is already past. Don't try to regain it. The present does not stay. Don't try to touch it from moment to moment. The future has not come. Don't think about it beforehand.”

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