"In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar."

-- Trevor Nunn

#Teacher Quotes #Passionate Quotes #Teens Quotes

“Imagination is a place where all the important answers live.”
“To say that someone is a conservative does not tell us what he is interested in conserving.”

Source : Douglas Jones, Douglas Wilson (1998). “Angels in the Architecture: A Protestant Vision for Middle Earth”, p.110, Canon Press & Book Service
“I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.”

Source : Elinor Wylie (1934). “The Novels of Elinor Wylie”
“317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it is so, because mathematical reality is built that way.”
“We came from many roots, and we have many branches.”
“If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.”
“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As I have heard said, a person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear. I got into this habit by attempting to contact celebrities and famous businesspeople for advice.”
“My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would have me do. As I told you from the first, I regard them as earth's heroes. But I do not wish to believe them without cause, nor to accept those propositions whose antitheses (as you must have understood if you are not both blind and deaf) are so compellingly true.”

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