"I cannot teach -- if I teach as teaching should be I become so exhausted I nearly die, I seem to have no middle gear."

-- James Tiptree Jr.

#Teaching Quotes #Gears Quotes #Exhausted Quotes

“Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.”
“You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.”

Source : FaceBook post by Michael Phelps from Jan 19, 2012
“My team in Orlando was a team full of people who nobody wanted, and I was the leader and I led that team with a smile on my face.”

Source : "Ex-Magic teammates ridicule Dwight Howard's leadership" by Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, www.usatoday.com. March 7, 2013.
“Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held out empty - for the past must only be reflected in its polish, its shape, its capacity.”
“I was just trying to make a nice little movie... It wasn't until I saw it all put together that I realized this was something remarkable.”
“Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.”

Source : "London 2012: Zara Phillips deals deftly with media's royal obsession" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2012.
“The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the world that we are in fact one people. Gathering, therefore, is an eschatological act as it is the foretaste of the unity of the communion of the saints.”

Source : Stanley Hauerwas (1995). “In Good Company: The Church as Polis”, p.139, University of Notre Dame Pess
“God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.”

Source : "Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology". Book by Jules Chametzky. Chapter: "Jewish Humor", p. 318, 2000.

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