"While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins."

-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Reading Quotes #Textbooks Quotes #Classmates Quotes

“I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one did not have them in circumstances where a duty makes it imperative; and in the ordinary course of life one has to know these weaknesses, prudently take them into account, and strive to turn them to good purpose; for they are all capable of being put to some good purpose.”
“No more soul-destroying doctrine could well be devised than the doctrine that sinners can regenerate themselves, and repent and believe just when they please.”

Source : Charles Hodge (1872). “Systematic Theology”, p.277
“Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.”

Source : Interview with Brook Larmer, hbr.org. April 2012.
“Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.”
“The influence of woman will ever be exercised directly in all good or evil. Give her, then, such light as she is capable of receiving.”
“It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.”
“Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for outward consumption. There will be no significant internal changes in the Soviet Union, other than for cosmetic purposes. Our purpose is to disarm the Americans and let them fall asleep.”
“All the body's systems and processes - your nerves, your emotions - take instruction from what is going on with your breath.”

Source : Tara Stiles (2012). “Yoga Cures: Simple Routines to Conquer More Than 50 Common Ailments and Live Pain-Free”, p.22, Harmony

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