"How we learn has nothing to do with how brilliant we are."

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Source : "Q&A: Henry Winkler, children's book author". Interview with Jenniffer Weigel, articles.chicagotribune.com. February 23, 2014.

Henry Winkler

#Brilliant Quotes

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”

Source : FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Jun 26, 2012
“Many things shaped my identity as a young boy: a strong selfworth (something that was instilled in all three Barrowman siblings by our parents), my immersion in theatre and music, and my DNA. I was born gay. It's not a choice I â€“ or anyone else who is gay â€“ made. If it were, why on earth would anyone choose to be part of a minority, part of a group that in so many cultures and countries, even in the twenty-first century, is regularly blasphemed, hounded and worse?”

Source : Source: themississippilink.com
“It is a mean thief or a successful author that plunders the dead.”
“In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and practicable methods for measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be.”

Source : Popular Lectures and Addresses "Electrical Units of Measurement" (1889).
“I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.”
“It's always intrigued me that amidst the group called slaves there were individuals who were extremely able, who were extremely colorful, who were powerful personalities, who by no means fit the usual images of slaves. They were people who, through their personalities and abilities, were very respected in the community where they lived by both black and white.”
“People care about our digital revenue, not our print revenue.”
“A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.”

Source : Speech to United Nations General Assembly, New York, N.Y., 23 Sept. 2003

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