"In many ways, constancy is an illusion. After all, our ancestors were immigrants, many of them moving on every few years; today we are migrants in time. Unless teachers can hold up a model of lifelong learning and adaptation, graduates are likely to find themselves trapped into obsolescence as the world changes around them. Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain."

-- Mary Catherine Bateson

#Life Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Moving Quotes

“Consider getting smaller in order to get bigger.”
“Film is like football - you join a team, get close to one or two people, then never hear from them again. I don't get emotionally involved. Do one, move on.”

Source : "Vinnie Jones: 'It took me 40 years to see a psychologist'". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2013.
“Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph of this century or perhaps any other.”

Source : Edwin Newman (1974). “Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?”
“We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.”
“I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.”
“And with a few moments like that, with doubt from here and there, and within ourselves we were just striving for excellence. We had somehow understood and felt that all the musicians who would come to the House later on, that all the singers, the big artists, were striving for excellence in their life and we thought a house for them, thereâ€™s no limit to the excellence it should have because it should match their strive for perfection”
“There are two definitions of deflation. Most people think of it simply as prices going down. But debt deflation is what happens when people have to spend more and more of their income to carry the debts that they've run up - to pay their mortgage debt, to pay the credit card debt, to pay student loans.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“Death comes black and hard, rushing down on me from the future, with no possible chance of escape.”

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