"Although we human adults are really good at understanding other minds, we weren't always that way. It takes children a long time to break into the system."

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Source : "How Do We Know What Other People Are Thinking?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. February 20, 2015.

Rebecca Saxe

#Children Quotes #Motivation Quotes #Inspiration Quotes

“When I work with young people, I grab energy from them by the handsful.”
“Yeah, most guys don't like to think about going to a bar with a girlfriend and watching her leave with someone else.”
“A program that produces incorrect results twice as fast is infinitely slower.”
“We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.”
“The grandest and simplest things contain worlds within worlds. Seeing them is a matter of the right point of view, and your painter's eye is the special portal to such sights.”
“There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,â€ Chiron said. â€œAnd perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?”

Source : Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.79, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Don't wait for permission to do something creative.”
“Even when I lose faith in myself there is something in me that speaks through and says I am not finished yet.”

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