"My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work."

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Source : Ilsa J. Bick (2011). “Ashes”, p.24, Carolrhoda Lab ™

Ilsa J. Bick

#Teacher Quotes #Judging Quotes #Said Quotes

“God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.”
“As a kid, I played a lot of one-on-none.”
“I think excessive rationality can be very dangerous. Certainly the kind of rationality we've seen in the last hundred years, and still see on a daily basis when Madeleine Albright says that it's all right, we have to live with the idea of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children dying because it contains Saddam Hussein.”
“We have two boys. After George Zimmerman was found not guilty of killing Trayvon Martin, we had to explain to our older son, who was 12 at the time, how that could happen. Instead of hugging and consoling him, my husband pulled out a documentary about Emmett Till and showed it to him and started to talk about how the justice system works in this country - and how it often doesn't. From that conversation, our son wrote a short story about Trayvon Martin going to heaven to meet Emmett Till.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.”
“If your mental attitude is positive, even when threats abound, you wonâ€™t lose your inner peace. On the other hand, if your mind is negative, marked by fear, suspicion and feelings of helplessness, even among your best friends, in a pleasant atmosphere and comfortable surroundings, you wonâ€™t be happy.”
“We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.”

Source : Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.37, Harper Collins
“Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.”

Source : Huston Smith, Jeffery Paine (2012). “The Huston Smith Reader”, p.43, Univ of California Press

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