"The best teachers have shown me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly - we only think it does."

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Joseph Bruchac

#Teacher Quotes #Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was slowly getting better I wanted to see how far I can go but I always wanted to be myself. I wanted to be original. I didn't want to copy anybody's style.”
“If life has given us no more than a prison cell, let's at least decorate it as best we can-with the shadows of our dreams, their colourful patterns engraving our oblivion on the static surface of the walls.”
“I have no sense of being famous - you're just working. And then you'll have a random day in London when you'll do some press and it creeps into your awareness that this goes out - that what you do every day goes out to televisions right across the country.”
“Don't be afraid to have nothing.”

Source : Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.157, Spiegel & Grau
“The twin killers of success are impatience and greed.”
“Maybe it was better to just go on believing everything was OK, even when really bad things were just about to happen.”
“There are moments in life that you wish with all your heart you could take back. Like, just erase from existence. Like, if you could, you'd erase yourself right out of existence too, just to make that moment not exist.”
“We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know he lost his job, the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that's open to her after four years of study and a pile of debt is her parents'. These are the faces of the Obama economy.”

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