"My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world."

-- Joseph Mitchell

#Dad Quotes #World Quotes #Cotton Quotes

“Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving.”
“Democracy is an internal subject of the developing society. There are fundamentals of democracy, and they should be understood universally in different countries.”
“You are going to have hostile crowds and the fans are going to find out where you are staying and keep you awake at night. They are going to use everything possible.”
“I followed [Shoji] Hamada, because I guess Alix [MacKenzie] and I, we both saw the danger that lay in planning things out on paper and then simply executing them. And with Hamada there was a much more direct sense that the piece had happened in the process of making on the wheel, and that was what we wanted to do with our work. We weren't always able to do it, though.”
“there is no doubt that the garrulous bore is the most maddening creature to be shut up with for any length of time, on the wide earth. ... As a matter of fact, I have sometimes wondered if these impulsive, perfectly meaningless murders of which one has read at times, can have come about through one party babbling on endlessly - just once too often - when the other longed to be left in peace.”
“I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that.”
“I don't have a routine, but I have used meditation to just decompress and focus.”
“Our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language”

Source : Marc Prensky (2012). “From Digital Natives to Digital Wisdom: Hopeful Essays for 21st Century Learning”, p.69, Corwin Press

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