"Like when that man was running down Broadway stark naked and we all had to eat in the cafeteria while the police tried to catch him."

-- Rebecca Stead

#Running Quotes #Men Quotes #Police Quotes

“Find something youâ€™re passionate about and you know, do something.”
“I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door.”

Source : Interview to Thumbscrew Magazine, www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. Spring, 1996.
“When ideas are young and vulnerable, criticism can be lethal.”

Source : "Imagination Becomes Reality" by Janet Echelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2012.
“We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!”
“Compassion isn't some kind of self-improvement project or ideal that we're trying to live up to. Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves, all those imperfections that we don't even want to look at.”
“You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done - but simply because you are.”
“Mathematics is the art of explanation. If you deny students the opportunity to engage in this activity-- to pose their own problems, to make their own conjectures and discoveries, to be wrong, to be creatively frustrated, to have an inspiration, and to cobble together their own explanations and proofs-- you deny them mathematics itself.”
“Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.”

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