"One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire."

-- John Dewey

#Teacher Quotes #Successful Quotes #Vision Quotes

“travel never made a bore interesting; it only makes for a well-traveled bore, in the same way coffee makes for a wide-awake drunk. In fact, the more a bore travels, the worse he gets. The only advantage in it for his friends and family is that he isn't home as much.”

Source : Peg Bracken (1973). “But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
“It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.”
“The chorus of â€œJack and Dianeâ€ is: Oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone. Are you kidding me? The thrill of living was high school? Come on, Mr. Cougar Mellencamp. Get a life.”
“I agree with Dreher when he writes, 'we can't build anything good unless we live by the belief that man does not exist to serve the economy, but the economy exists to serve man...A society built on consumerism must break down eventually for the same reason socialism did'”
“I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.”
“A lot of people describe me as chubby, which seems so easy, so first-choice. Or stocky. Fair-skinned. Tow-headed. There are so many other choices. How about dense? I mean, I'm a thick kind of guy. But I'm never described in attractive ways. I'm waiting for somebody to say I'm at least cute. But nobody has.”
“Composing was more difficult than writing things down.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Vain Art of the Fugue was the only one of my novels to be met with relative public recognition: it was nominated for the Prix MÃ©dicis by Alain Robbe-Grillet. Milan Kundera pocketed the prize instead and the public never clamored to buy it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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