"There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help."

-- Siri Hustvedt

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“There is a clear acknowledgement all over the world that we should not teach people to read and then to leave them without literature. For they would then relapse into a dreary and ultimately dangerous state of half-education, in which they would be easily satisfied by crude semi-pictorial approximations of the strip cartoon and by the abundant supply of degenerate literature which destroys, rather than promotes, a capacity to face the problems of the world with skill and courage”
“You are staring at me like you were going to eat me up.”
“Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood.”

Source : "A scientist by choice". Speech by acceptance of the Kyoto Prize, 1991.
“Trust your instincts, and take control.”
“Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.”

Source : "Maestro of Broadway". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 05, 2005.
“Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.”

Source : "Self-efficacy: The exercise of control". Book by Albert Bandura (p. 77), February 15, 1997.
“In the Leach Pottery we did most of our work on the wheel. [Bernard] Leach did a little work in the studio, which was press-molded forms, plastic clay pressed into plaster forms to make small rectangular boxes and some vase forms, which he liked to make. These were molds which had been made to an original that he had modeled in solid clay, and during our work there, sometimes I would be pressing these forms as a means of production.”
“Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.”

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