"I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on."

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Alan Shepard

#School Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Discipline Quotes

“The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice.”
“The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear.”
“I don't really know if I want to do acting as a career. I really don't know what I want to do yet.”
“It is the breaking of life that produces the blessing of life,”
“Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.”

Source : Hugh Blair (1798). “Sentimental Beauties from the Writings of Dr. Blair: Selected with a View to Refine the Taste, Rectify the Judgment, and Mould the Heart to Virtue”, p.247
“Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.”
“The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.”

Source : Max Eastman (1951). “Enjoyment of Poetry with Anthology”
“I still forget, sometimes, that I am no longer 12 years old.”

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