"For the academic the rhetorical sense of superiority through the possession of knowledge is essential for facing the daily grind, turning again to the otherwise boring article, braving the students who, fresh as each class may be, will still ask the same questions year after year. Psychological survival is not achieved without effort, and the environment must be managed, knocked about with one's elbows until it takes a shape comfortable to one's sense of self. This is not selfishness, for in reshaping the environment the academic is also reinvigorating the educational process."

-- Robin Winks

#Educational Quotes #Teaching Quotes #Self Quotes

“There is in man a conscience which outlives the sensations the sensations, resolutions, and emotions of the hour, and rises above them all.”

Source : Edward Thomson (1872). “Evidences of Revealed Religion”, p.105
“When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.”

Source : Andrew Vachss (2001). “Sacrifice”, p.16, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
“As we tell stories about the lives of others, we learn how to imagine what another creature might feel in response to various events. At the same time, we identify with the other creature and learn something about ourselves.”
“I don't have much to say about honesty. All that I feel about it that people don't discuss as far as I know is how much effort it is to create truly honest writing, in my opinion. It requires a lot of thinking and effort.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“My fiancee and I recently eloped. We went on a fabulous honeymoon to Europe, and I was able to see and do everything I wanted without worrying about taking it easy.”
“Leave life alone. Let it be.”
“Words cannot express as music does, that unsayable grace which cannot be defined. It leaps like light from mind to mind.”
“The greater man the greater courtesy.”

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