"When I take kids into the woods, I tell them, "What we're going to do today is going to be incredibly dangerous." And you just see 20 smiles go up. "But, we're also going to learn to look after each other, who to work together and who to understand and manage that risk." That's what it's about, you don't empower kids if you don't expose them to risk."

-- Bear Grylls

#Kids Quotes #Empowering Quotes #Risk Quotes

“Don't insult me today just because I'm poor, you don't know what my future holds!”

Source : William Kamkwamba (2010). “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind”, p.41, HarperCollins UK
“To a society that inarticulately and thoughtlessly takes itself to be divine, Hegel says, Yes, we are indeed divine, and philosophy can show how this is both possible and necessary.”

Source : Merold Westphal (2010). “Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society”, p.38, Penn State Press
“The state of radio is not great. It's like playing the lottery. The chances of hitting are mind boggling slim.”
“The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother.”
“Every Christmas should begin with the sound of bells, and when I was a child mine always did. But they were sleigh bells, not church bells, for we lived in a part of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where there were no churches.”
“Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.”
“The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.”
“As far as I am concerned, the first episode of Buffy was the beginning of my career. It was the first time I told a story from start to finish the way I wanted.”

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