"If all who are engaged in the profession of education were willing to state the facts instead of making greater promises than they can possibly fulfill, they would not be in such bad repute with the lay- public."

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Source : Isocrates (1962). “Isocrates”, Loeb Classical Library

Isocrates

#Education Quotes #Promise Quotes #Facts Quotes

“I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.”
“You start to think, when you're finishing a record, in twelve- to fourteen-minute chunks. At a certain point, you do write to the format. It's not a coincidence that most albums are between thirty-five and fifty minutes. It's kind of like the 98-minute film. It becomes some paradigm for human attention in the media.”
“I pretended indifferenceâ€¦even in the presence of love, in the presence of hunger. And the more deeply I felt, the less able I was to respond.”
“Great improvisers are like priests... they are thinking only of their God”
“Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.”
“A selfish man is a thief.”
“No man is ever as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.”

Source : "My Oedipus complex and other stories".
“It is very important that when you put something on the grill, you leave it in place to cook. If you move it around too quickly, chances are it is going to stick.”

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