"My first-grade teacher told me I was the dumbest student she ever had. She did me a favor. If she told me I was very smart, I wouldn't have tried to improve."

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Source : "ERNEST GALLO: 1909-2007 / With brother, he created world's biggest winery" by W. Blake Gray, Steve Rubenstein, www.sfgate.com. March 7, 2007.

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“When you strive for perfection, you compare different versions of what could be instead of being present with what is. Perfectionism is an attempt to inhabit an imaginary world in order to avoid experiencing the world in which you live.”
“Imagination gives the man the ability to poject himself through time and space and rise above all limitations.”
“There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of teaching understand how bad most of our elementary school materials still are.”
“We are being spoilt in Aladdin's cave today, and each goal seemingly better than the last.”
“Poor people always lose in struggles.”

Source : "Ptolemy's Geography" edited by Michael Servetus, 1535.
“When you think of the Exorcist, you think of Linda Blair and pea soup and all this madness, but really if you look at the first half of that film, the stuff between her and Ellen Burstyn is so naturalistic and so real.”
“What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naÃ¯ve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.”
“If the expansion of the space of the universe is uniform in all directions, an observer located in anyone of the galaxies will see all other galaxies running away from him at velocities proportional to their distances from the observer.”

Source : George Gamow (2012). “The Creation of the Universe”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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