"Gentle time will heal our sorrows."

-- Sophocles

#Grief Quotes #Sorrow Quotes #Gentle Quotes

“Have you ever thought that radical ideas threaten institutions, then become institutions, and in turn reject radical ideas which threaten institutions?”
“I believe that a core problem with undergraduate education, especially at research universities like Harvard, Stanford, NYU, etc, is that most teaching is done by PhDs, who by temperament, training, interests, and rewards are researchers first. So they spend most of their time and energy probing a snip of a field's cutting edge. In my view, the attributes needed to be a transformative undergraduate instructor are pretty orthogonal to that. It would seem that undergraduate education would be superior if there was a separate track for teaching faculty.”
“I'm Jim Phillips, I have multiple personalities. I'm also a skindiver, a puppeteer, and I was the tenth president of the United States.”
“Most people don’t care who rules, as long as their lives don’t change.”

Source : L. E. Modesitt, Jr. (2007). “The Spellsong War: The Second Book of the Spellsong Cycle”, p.555, Macmillan
“his get up and go had gone up and went”
“While the difference between a bad sermon and a good sermon is mainly the responsibility of the preacher, the difference between good preaching and great preaching lies mainly in the work of the Holy Spirit. . . . We should do the work it takes to make our communication good and leave it up to God how and how often he makes it great for the listener.”
“There are easier things in life than being a drag queen. But I ain't got no choice. Try as I may, I just can't walk in flats.”
“People really don't like to hear success explained away as luck, especially successful people. As they age and succeed, people feel their success was somehow inevitable. They don't want to acknowledge the role played by accident in their lives. There's a reason for this. The world doesn't want to acknowledge it either. Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them. Above all, recognize that you have had success, you have also had luck. And with luck comes obligation.”

Source : "MICHAEL LEWIS: Successful People Like Me Were Actually Just Really Lucky" by Julia La Roche, www.businessinsider.com. June 05, 2012.

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