"In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs."

-- Daniel J. Boorstin

#Mother Quotes #Lonely Quotes #Teacher Quotes

“If you had half an hour of exercise this morning, you're in the right frame of mind to sit still and focus on this paragraph, and your brain is far more equipped to remember it.”
“It was hard to be away from home, but I am glad that I am home now.”
“We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.”
“On the other hand, the way in which that car fit into this whole very roundabout way of attempting to solve the problem of what - the problem that [Buckminster Fuller] perceived as being the cause of his daughter's death and meningitis. I mean how you get from your daughter dying from meningitis to making a car with three wheels and saying that it's like a bird and a fish. That really is amazing.”
“Every five years, I decide to learn something new.”
“When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again.”
“The moment you stop worrying about success is when success will happen.”
“Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.”

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