"If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything."

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Source : Marva Collins (1992). “Ordinary Children, Extraordinary Teachers”, p.170, Hampton Roads Publishing

Marva Collins

#Mistake Quotes #Learning Quotes

“And don't you let your guard down for a second because you think anything's inevitable.”
“You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest . . .”

Source : "The Dirge of Alaric, the Visigoth". The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Volume V, No. 25, January-June 1823.
“If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pushed around. When the chips are down we might have to step into grey areas.”
“You and I are like the first two people on earth who at the beginning of the world had nothing to cover themselves with - at the end of it, you and I are just as stripped and homeless. And you and I are the last remembrance of all that immeasurable greatness which has been created in all the thousands of years between their time and ours, and it is in memory of all that vanished splendour that we live and love and weep and cling to one another.”
“Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.”
“The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.”
“I have stopped being a misanthrope.”
“When you've done the types of things I've done, it's easier not to reflect on yourself. When I start thinking about how it's affecting the families of the people, and my family and everything, it doesn't do me any good. It just gets me very upset.”

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