"I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be"

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Source : Franz Boas (1932). “Anthropology and Modern Life”, p.261, Transaction Publishers

Franz Boas

#Teaching Quotes #Mind Quotes #May Quotes

“I hope I'm exactly what America is looking for, I don't know, I'm just going to be myself and hope that they love it. That's all I can do.”
“'The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls.'”
“I encourage people to embrace whatever it is that makes them different. Not being like everybody, setting your own trends, being your own person, thatâ€™s what makes you cool.”

Source : "LaLa Anthony Lands April Cover Of Latina Magazine And Talks Love And Life (PHOTOS)". Latina Magazine Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2012.
“A skater goes through a lot of different feelings during a competition. Staying calm is the key point. You feel a little anxious, a little nervous, a little unsettled. That's when you've got to trust your feelings, trust your abilities. Believe in what you have worked for so long to achieve. Have faith in yourself.”
“One of the paradoxes that makes the internet such a suggestive place is that, on the one hand, we perceive it as perpetually in motion and changing, and, on the other hand, it has this god-like immortality to it: It seems like it won't die and is not subject to decay, and that everything can be unwound, unlike present-tense experience, where you can't archive the present moment, you can't go back and read it over again. That's the fundamental hallmark of the internet.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.”
“I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or cultural studies. I don't want to give a poetry reading and have to provide the story behind the poem in order for it to make sense to an audience. I certainly don't want the poem to require a critical intermediary - a "spokescritic." I want my poems to be independently meaningful moments of power for a good reader. And that's the expectation I initially bring to other poets' writing.”

Source : Source: muse.jhu.edu
“Elemental music is never just music. It's bound up with movement, dance and speech, and so it is a form of music in which one must participate, in which one is involved not as a listener but as a co-performer.”

Source : "Through Music to the Self : How to Appreciate and Experience Music Anew" by Peter Michael Hamel, (p. 18), 1979.

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