"One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure."

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John W. Gardner

#Reading Quotes #Failure Quotes #Learning Quotes

“I'm one of the nicest, most fair people I know.”
“Probably more than half of the people who go into psychology do so because they need help. I think it's their way of feeling that they have control.”
“He who knows the truth and does not speak it is a miserable coward.”

Source : "Julius Streicher" by Randall L. Bytwerk, (p. 211), 1983.
“The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford.”
“When I was a child, I thought of my Delta town as the center of the universe, but now I realize how little I know about the universe. As a child, I thought I was immortal, but now I recognize how limited a time we all have. As a child, success meant scoring A on every exam, but now I take it to mean good health, close family and friends, achieve- ments in my work, and helping others.”

Source : Ahmed H. Zewail (2002). “Voyage Through Time: Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize”, p.236, World Scientific
“It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little . . . We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work . . . in order to free their hold.”
“Sometimes I listen to a beat and I think its so dope and I don't know what to bring to that. And some beats I listen to and I just love them as instrumentals and I listen to them when I'm riding around.”

Source : Source: respect-mag.com
“I'm not usually in a talkative mode.”

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