"Teaching is performance art."

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Source : Kate Clinton (2012). “Don't Get Me Started”, p.35, Bywater Books

Kate Clinton

#Art Quotes #Teaching Quotes #Performances Quotes

“You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.”

Source : Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.3, Rowman & Littlefield
“When people look you in the eye and call you stupid, dont look away, but tell them that half of the world is stupid and they are one of them because they are dening their own stupidity.”
“Finally, I wish to remember the millions of Allied servicemen and prisoners of war who lived the story of the Second World War. Many of these men never came home; many others returned bearing emotional and physical scars that would stay with them for the rest of their lives. I come away from this book with the deepest appreciation for what these men endured, and what they scarified, for the good of humanity. It is to them that this book {Unbroken} is dedicated,”
“I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.”
“It was like that class at school where the teacher talks about Realization, about how you could realize something big in a commonplace thing. The example he gave--and the liar said it really happened--was that once while drinking orange juice, he'd realized he would be dead someday. He wondered if we, his students, had had similar 'realizations.' Is he kidding? I thought. Once I cashed a paycheck and I realized it wasn't enough. Once I had food poisoning, and realized I was trapped inside my body.”
“Life is too short to worry about what others say about you. Have fun and give them something to talk about.”
“Wicca has been, up until the past decade or so, a closed religion, but no more.”

Source : Scott Cunningham (2010). “Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”, p.71, Llewellyn Worldwide
“I think about my choice. Either outcome is bleak. If I stay and live through high school, go to college, get a job, what will ever change? This blackness inside will never go away. I don't make friends; I'll always be alone. If I go, at least there's hope of peace. Chance of a new and better life on the other side.”

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