"I encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice."

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Source : "The College Professor I’ll Never Forget" by Renee Olstead, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2012.

Renee Olstead

#Teacher Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Voice Quotes

“Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world.”
“Hello, I'm Shellie's new boyfriend and I'm out of my mind. If you so much as talk to her or even think her name, I'll cut you in ways that'll make you useless to a woman.”
“But, drawn to her at that moment, he felt a quiet like the voice of the rain flow over him. He knew well enough that for her it was in fact no waste of effort, but somehow the final determination that it was had the effect of distilling and purifying the woman's existence.”
“I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true”
“Nature, at all events, humanly speaking, is manifestly very fond of color; for she has made nothing without it. Her skies are blue; her fields, green; her waters vary with her skies; her animals, vegetables, minerals, are all colored. She paints a great any of them in apparently superfluous hues, as if to show the dullest eye how she loves color.”
“It's always a problem - you've got to figure out a place to put your body. You've got to wake up in the morning and deal with the fact that you have this body to lug around.”

Source : Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.
“I had a job when I was 15 working at a supermarket, and I knocked over a stack of plastic coffee cups. In my anger, I threw one at a concrete wall, and it rebounded back into my head and cut my head open. Stupidest way to get a scar, but its one that I have.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. This is a mental illness. It is like looking through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars. It is as if you are living in a fantasy world of a fable. This is an interesting and sad syndrome. Iâ€™m sure that I have that syndrome. If itâ€™s not it, then why the heck does my every moment with the ordinary girl feel like a fable?”

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