"Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other."

-- Benjamin Franklin

#Teacher Quotes #Experience Quotes #Fool Quotes

“I don't need new boots I got bluchers back down home. Eff the effing bluchers I'll buy you new adjectival effing elastic sided boots.”

Source : Peter Carey (2011). “True History of the Kelly Gang”, p.80, Faber & Faber
“Tod laughed. He was always able to find the humour in even the creepiest situations. I'd thought that it was an undead thing, until I became a member of the undead. Then I realized it was a Tod-thing.”
“Just as I wonder whether it's going to die, the orchid blossoms and I can't explain why it moves my heart, why such pleasure comes from one small bud on a long spindly stem, one blood red gold flower opening at mid-summer, tiny, perfect in its hour.”

Source : Sam Hamill (2002). “Dumb Luck: Poems”, p.88, BOA Editions, Ltd.
“Grace is inexplicable, inappropriate, out of bounds, offensive, excessive, & given to the wrong people.”
“Fail your way forward. Recognize that Ready, fire, aim is superior to ready, aim, aim, aim. Straightforward trial and error produces better results than endless vacillating. If you're afraid to make decisions and act on them in the face of ambiguity and uncertainty, get a job. Failure's lessons are essential to success.”
“I don't think anybody else can play the Hulk like I could. I was able to show emotions even with all of the makeup. I don't think it can be duplicated.”
“I distrust anything that you don't hear.”
“My God, since you are with me and since, by Your will, I must occupy myself with external things, please grant me the grace to remain with You, in Your presence. Work with me, so that my work might be the very best. Receive as an offering of love both my work and all my affections.”

Source : Brother Lawrence (2013). “The Brother Lawrence Collection”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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