"I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule."

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Source : Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.79, New York Review of Books

Agnes de Mille

#Inspirational Quotes #College Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“And in this game of life, we all search for ourselves. When I say selves, I mean â€˜inner selvesâ€™, the thing that created the life in the first place. Now consciously, most of us are not aware of this. But if youâ€™re searching for happiness; if youâ€™re searching for tranquility; if youâ€™re searching just to have a nice, peaceful, loving, understanding life... in actual fact, your searching for your inner self.”
“A laboratory of natural history is a sanctuary where nothing profane should be tolerated. I feel less agony at improprieties in churches than in a scientific laboratory.”

Source : "Discovery: or, The spirit and service of science". Book by Sir Richard Gregory, 1st Baronet, p. 43, 1916.
“I never plan anything-life is a roller coaster ride - I just hang on for dear life.”
“Being assertive and somewhat really firm has to be backed up with being fair.”

Source : Source: articles.chicagotribune.com
“I'm just excited about life. Life is really good right now with my family and friends, and being able to work with people I respect.”

Source : "Regina Hall & Kevin Hart - The “About Last Night” Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, dallasblack.com. February 12, 2014.
“If the Olympic champion doesn't know how to jump quad, I don't know. Now it's not figure skating. Now it's dancing.”
“Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we have the wisdom, the strength, and the courage and the virtue to do them. But we must face facts as they are. We must neither surrender ourselves to a foolish optimism, nor succumb to a timid and ignoble pessimism.”

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