"A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks."

-- Helen Keller

#Education Quotes #Disappointment Quotes #Children Quotes

“You can't recover from what you do not understand.”
“I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.”
“I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.”
“The life-efficiency and adaptability of the computer must be questioned. Its judicious use depends upon the availability of its human employers quite literally to keep their own heads, not merely to scrutinize the programming but to reserve for themselves the right of ultimate decision. No automatic system can be intelligently run byautomatonsor by people who dare not assert human intuition, human autonomy, human purpose.”
“It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.”
“You better arm yourselves to answer your children's and grandchildren's questions... no matter what the question is... without being judgmental.”
“The expansion I have in mind isn't the same as distortion. Of course, there are those who say their views represent Reformed thought, but what they end up with is a caricature of what Reformed thinking is really about. I hope I am not one of those people, but readers [of the Saving Calvinism] will have to make up their own minds on that score!”
“All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.”

Source : Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Parable of the Talents”, p.7, Open Road Media

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