"When [Bernie] Sanders was challenged about how he would pass his visionary ideas after he became president, he talked about if lawmakers look out the window and they see a million people marching, it changes their calculus. Well, here's an opportunity to continue working to organize these million people even if he is not the one in office."

-- Ben Wikler

#Opportunity Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Office Quotes

“Over the next four days, I want you to write about your deepest emotions and thoughts about the most upsetting experience in your life. Really let go and explore your feelings and thoughts about it. In your writing, you might tie this experience to your childhood, your relationship with your parents, people you have loved or love now or even your career. How is this experience related to who you would like to become, who you have been in the past, or who you are now?.”
“Just because youâ€™ve only been alive for fifteen years doesnâ€™t mean youâ€™re less anything except old. Thatâ€™s all it means. It doesnâ€™t mean youâ€™re less experienced. It doesnâ€™t mean youâ€™re less intelligent. It doesnâ€™t mean youâ€™re less sensitive. It doesnâ€™t mean you take things less seriously. Itâ€™s like, these are younger human beings, meaning donâ€™t, because theyâ€™re only ten, start thinking that they donâ€™t know what youâ€™re talking about -because they do. Donâ€™t leave people out in the cold, and donâ€™t talk down to people -donâ€™t. It never works out.”
“As a child I made a pact with my mother. I agreed that we were doomed, that she and I abided together in a cocoon of melancholy.”
“I'd like to briefly state the accomplishment that we expect from a photographer. He must make the person being photographed forget that he has eaten from the tree of knowledge.”

Source : Albert Renger-Patzsch, Donald Burton Kuspit, J. Paul Getty Museum (1993). “Albert Renger-Patzsch: joy before the object”, Getty Publications
“One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.”

Source : David Perkins (2008). “Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds”, p.143, Simon and Schuster
“You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not in danger, Skyler. I am the danger. A guy opens his door and gets shot and you think that of me? No. I am the one who knocks!”
“You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding it still daylight.”
“I get ideas from everything. A big color, the sound of water and wind, or a flash of something cool. Playing is like life. Either you feel it or you don't.”

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