"Teaching is my most reliable form of human contact. I love the opportunity to speak Spanish (which I don't do at home), the give-and-take with students, the surprises. One day you think you have the goods for a sensational class and it bombs. The next day you have nothing and the class turns out splendidly."

--

Source : Source: www.gustavoperezfirmat.com

Gustavo Perez Firmat

#Teaching Quotes #Home Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“I don't think I'd really be alive without it, in all honesty.”

Source : "The Interview: The Darling Buds". Hunger Interview, www.hungertv.com. September 9, 2014.
“For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas.”
“There's no such thing as an easy stage.”
“Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. Years ago I wrote an essay that began, "Some people think that God is in the details, but I have come to believe that God is in the bathroom.”
“Truths kindle light for truths.”
“Enlightenment, the old teachers say, adds nothing, except maybe the recognition of a need for and a commitment to the work that still needs to be done.”

Source : Rafe Martin (2011). “Endless Path: Awakening Within the Buddhist Imagination: Jataka Tales, Zen Practice, and Daily Life”, p.43, North Atlantic Books
“I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.”

Source : "From Chastity to Chaz: Sonny and Cher's Child On His Sex-Change Operation". Interview with Andrea Sachs, content.time.com. May 09, 2011.
“Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not inthralled; Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.”

You may also like:

Achy Obejas
Writer
Carlos Eire
Professor
Cristina Garcia
Journalist
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Novelist
Ilan Stavans
Essayist
Junot Diaz
Writer
Oscar Hijuelos
Novelist
Richard Blanco
Poet
Sandra Cisneros
Writer