"In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts."

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Source : Charles William Eliot (1926). “Charles W. Eliot: The Man and His Beliefs”

Charles William Eliot

#Children Quotes #Fields Quotes #Facts Quotes

“I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot.”
“Seeds of discouragement cannot take root in a grateful heart.”
“When you have your chance to make a film, don't focus on pleasing everyone. I think the goal is to live in that sweet spot where you focus on making a good film and you have fun with your collaborators, but you don't waste your energy chasing approval every which way. When you have a vision and a good story and you've managed to raise funding, it is your approval as a director that everyone should be seeking. It's very simple.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“This is a strange book: visionary and dark. It stutters out a kind of music: repeated phrases which accumulate errors and mutate as they go like chromosomes or, as Woodward puts it better, 'visible fissile ribbons.' It's as if we were present for the moments of creation and extinction. Uncanny Valley is ominous and beautiful.”
“Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.”

Source : Marsha Norman (1983). “'Night, Mother”, p.19, Dramatists Play Service Inc
“I love clothes so much, I always have. It's awesome to have designers invite me to their shows and openings and send me samples of their work.”
“Back on shore everyone was pretty messed up, but the owner/captain was by far the worst off. He ended up drunk for a week, though the only thing he ever said was "So?" The boat's gone. "So?" Your mate's dead. "So?" Hey at least you're alive. "So?" An awful word but it does harden you. It hardened me.”
“And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.”

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