"One of the marks of a great teacher lies not only in an ability to impart knowledge but also in knowing when to encourage a student to go off on his own."

-- Yo-Yo Ma

#Teacher Quotes #Lying Quotes #Knowledge Quotes

“To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.”
“The thing about many celebrities - not all - is that they're fantastic actors.”
“My father is conservative but has always supported my decisions. He lets me take my own decisions. His only condition while allowing me to come to Mumbai was that my mother must accompany me.”
“I Am Beautiful! I Am Loved! I Have The Ability to Smile, Laugh, and Do Great Things with My Life!”
“A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.”

Source : "Typical American". Book by Gish Jen, 1991.
“People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely oral people - a conversation with no one and yet with everyone. What could be stranger than the silence one encounters when addressing a question to a text? What could be more metaphysically puzzling than addressing an unseen audience, as every writer of books must do? And correcting oneself because one knows that an unknown reader will disapprove or misunderstand?”
“The first lesson of evolution was one of conflict. The lesson now is one of kinship.”
“Each night the black sky and the bright stars were my stunning companions; occasionally Id see their beauty and solemnity so plainly that I'd realize in a piercing way that my mother was right. That someday I WOULD be grateful and that in fact I was grateful now, that I felt something growing in me that was strong and real.”

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