"The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people."

-- K. Patricia Cross

#Teacher Quotes #People Quotes #Effort Quotes

“Each year the big garden grew smaller and Jane - who grew flowers by choice, not corn or stringbeans - worked at the vegetables more than I did. Each winter I dreamed crops, dreamed marvels of canning . . . and each summer I largely failed. Shamefaced, I planted no garden at all.”
“Life insurance is a commodity.”

Source : "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.
“There is a point of no return after which warming becomes unstoppable - and we are probably going to sail right through it. It is the point at which anthropogenic (human-caused) warming triggers huge releases of carbon dioxide from warming oceans, or similar releases of both carbon dioxide and methane from melting permafrost, or both. Most climate scientists think that point lies not far beyond 2.0Â°C (3.6Â°F) C hotter.”

Source : "Four harsh truths about climate change" by Gwynne Dyerer, www.woodstocksentinelreview.com. December 4, 2008.
“Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.”
“One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast.”
“Steve Jobs did not start started Apple as a scam. But he understood early on the power of marketing. The idea of the computer as a bicycle for the human mind - I think that was something he believed. He believed in making people comfortable with these machines, which is why he spent so much time thinking about how to design them a certain way, how to make them so user-friendly and interactive, and why he spent so much time studying the Zeitgeist.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live.”

Source : Henry Beston, Roger B. Swain (2001). “Herbs and the Earth”, p.4, David R. Godine Publisher
“The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.”

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