"It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them."

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Source : Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1970). “Culture, Language and Personality”, p.62, Univ of California Press

Edward Sapir

#Teaching Quotes #Secret Quotes #Fruit Quotes

“I use very few muscles at the best of times.”
“I think what separates a superstar from the average ballplayer is that he concentrates just a little bit longer.”
“You either evolve or dissolve.”
“I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances.”

Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. December 18, 2008.
“A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living color”
“For in spite of the snapdragons and the duty millers and the cherry blossoms, it was always winter.”
“Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea. It's there, even when he can't see it or feel it, if he wants it to be there. You realize, I think, that it is more valuable, more mysterious, altogether more immense than anything you can learn or decide upon It will keep you free - not free to do anything you please, but free to be formed by something larger than your own intellect or the intellects around you.”
“You cant drag people from understanding to action. A customer isnt actually at the last mile if youre the one dragging her to the finish line.”

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