"I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen ... that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn't bother to do it."

-- Lucian Freud

#Thinking Quotes #Half Quotes #Painting Quotes

“Adventure is an attitude, not a behavior.”

Source : Luci Swindoll (2012). “Simple Secrets to a Happy Life”, p.210, Thomas Nelson Inc
“It seldom seems to strike the ultra-Darwinists that theology might have its own richness and subtleties, and might strange thought actually tell us things about the world that are not only to our real advantage, but will never be revealed by science.”

Source : Simon Conway Morris (2003). “Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe”, p.316, Cambridge University Press
“Here I'm here- the snow falling.”
“...human beings always have and always will seek havens where we are free to be productive and to keep the property we create.”
“How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat?”
“while everything else in our lives has gotten simpler, speedier, more microwavable and user-friendly, child-raising seems to have expanded to fill the time no longer available for it.”
“I want to eradicate poverty. I think that theres a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.”
“There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be a problem or whatever is to-be-learned as worth learning, and unless he plays an active role in determining the process of solution.”

Source : Neil Postman (2009). “Teaching As a Subversive Activity: A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Outdated Teaching Methods-with Dramatic and Practical Proposals on How Education Can Be Made Relevant to Today's World”, p.71, Delta

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