"I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight."

-- Venerable Bede

#Teaching Quotes #Writing Quotes #Discipline Quotes

“It is doubtful whether our present system of popular education does not ***** independent or self thinking as much as it promotes it. All genuine education is self-education. It will incite the individual to think for himself, by rethinking what the race's great thinkers have already thought for him, thus enabling him to go ahead under his own mental steam.”

Source : Joseph Alexander Leighton (1919). “The field of philosophy: an outline of lectures on introduction to philosophy”
“It's the things that we know FOR SURE, that just ain't so, that get us into trouble.”
“Real artists, it seems to me, are those who don't repeat themselves.”
“See, you're out your mind tryin' to face tha God. Your rhyme is like an empty prison...a waste of bars.”
“Songwriting is ... all about intuition - this thing pops into your head for a reason and it's up to you to follow it. It's like there's a spirit, or intuitive network, that comes through all of us, but most people don't take the time to think about it or remember it. These little things pop into our heads - it's just a process of intuition. The initial thought comes in a baby state, and you work on that some more.”
“How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office without the benefit of bribes or patronage.”
“Our opponents say more children are living in poverty than when we came into office. And that's probably right.”
“The only way I think about kids in production is practically, the younger the kids are the harder it is to shot the movie.”

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