"My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum."

-- Mary MacLane

#Desire Quotes #Goes On Quotes #Lectures Quotes

“When I think of the value that i appreciate and the value that I create, what matters to me most is how much I love people, and how much the people that I love love me.”
“If we could share this world below, If we could learn to love... If we could share this world below, We'd need no world above.”
“In their work, designers often become expert with the device they are designing. Users are often expert at the task they are trying to perform with the device. [...] Professional designers are usually aware of the pitfalls. But most design is not done by professional designers, it is done by engineers, programmers, and managers.”
“Teaching English is an intrinsically radical act. Is it possible to teach English so that people stop killing each other?”
“You don’t obey your way into faith (the Pharisees proved that); you believe your way into obedience.”
“He who whets his steel, whets his courage”
“While the Tamils were inventing cabs and leather jackets, we Greeks were busy inventing philosophy. But I guess everybody needs cabs and leather jackets.”
“Courage is a decision you make to act in a way that works through your own fear for the greater good as opposed to pure self-interest. Courage means putting at risk your immediate self-interest for what you believe is right.”

Source : Derrick Bell (2010). “Ethical Ambition”, p.18, A&C Black

You may also like:

Bojana Novakovic
Actress
Brian Reynolds Myers
Columnist
David Rees
Cartoonist
Edward Jay Epstein
Journalist
Emily Gould
Author
James Agee
Author
Marie Bashkirtseff
Mary Cassatt
Artist
Steve Stern
Author