"Sometimes, niÃ±a, our greatest gifts grow from what we are not given."

-- Erica Bauermeister

#Sometimes Quotes #Given Quotes #Grows Quotes

“Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.”
“A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous.”
“We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity â€¦ by actually talking with them.”
“I don't make demos. I don't have the interest or the energy or the time.”
“Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.”

Source : Quoted in Reader's Digest, Oct 1958.
“As far back as I remember, long before I could write, I had played at making stories. But not until I was seven or more, did I begin to pray every night, "O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!"”
“Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature.”
“Nothing you can do will benefit you more than prayer.”

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