"Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning."

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#Jobs Quotes #Children Quotes #College Quotes

“I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher.”
“In view of the fading animals the proliferation of sewers and fears the sea clogging, the air nearing extinction we should be kind, we should take warning, we should forgive each other Instead we are opposite, we touch as though attacking, the gifts we bring even in good faith maybe warp in our hands to implements, to manoeuvres”
“Well, I take great comfort in the words of the apostle Paul who said, â€˜What I will to do, that I do not practice. But what I hate, that I do.â€™ And he said, â€˜It is no longer I who do it, but the sin that dwells within me. But who,â€™ he asks, â€˜will deliver me from this body of death?â€™ And he answers for himself and for me, â€˜Through Jesus Christ the Lord.'”
“The interesting thing about Georgia is, Atlanta is teeming with middle-class black people and black people with money - and yet there is still segregation.”

Source : "Journey into the Heart of Whiteness". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. December 23, 2009.
“If I must fall, may it be from a high place.”
“History has its truth; and so has legend hers.”
“What I learned is that I should probably read a screenplay every once in a while before I said 'yes'. You could make bad film out of a good script, but you're never going to make a good film out of a bad script.”
“One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy.”

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