"My downfall made a great noise: those who appeared most satisfied criticized the manner of it."

-- FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand

#Noise Quotes #Made Quotes #Downfall Quotes

“The muse on my shoulder is very sensitive and does not abide claptrap of any kind... Only when I am totally immersed... absorbed in work... does she allow something magical to happen and I become aware of a faint heartbeat and gentle breath emanating from my brush.”
“Going on the ship felt like 100 years or one day. Timeless. Beautiful vertigo. It will continue to show up in my work.”
“. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .”
“I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.”
“It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book.”
“When you meditate, don't think about what is happening. Rather, let your awareness be seated in the tender warmth you feel in your body. If you do this, any meditation practice you do will be fruitful.”
“It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.”

Source : Buffalo Bill, W. F. Cody (2012). “Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography”, p.183, Courier Corporation
“I think every single one of us can think back on the key individuals in our lives who really made a difference, and also maybe some of those who sent us astray. There are those are the teachers who are brave enough to buck the system, and obviously not in such a way that jeopardizes their jobs, but brave enough to say, "I know I have to accomplish that, but I want to know how I'm going to help this child get there differently. I want to know what makes this child tick, and I want to help him get there from a place of curiosity, rather than from a place where I impose my ideas on him."”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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