"I think every student needs access to technology, and I think technology can be a hugely important vehicle to help level the playing field."

-- Arne Duncan

#Thinking Quotes #Technology Quotes #Important Quotes

“I've signed thousands of documents, but never read them.”
“I like to be surrounded by harmonies and fullness and richness and vitality”
“The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.”
“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
“Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding.”
“To observe the world carefully, to write a lot and often, on a schedule if necessary, to use the dictionary a lot, to look up word origins, to analyze closely the work of writers you admire, to read not only contemporaries but writers of the past, to learn at least one foreign language, to live an interesting life outside of writing.”
“In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of a limousine.”

Source : John Christopher (2015). “Beyond the Burning Lands”, p.170, Simon and Schuster
“I can only see right in front of me when I'm writing, you know? I never think of it as raw or personal or anything but where I'm at in the moment. But I can see it sort of after I finish.”

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