"Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core."

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Sugata Mitra

#Skills Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Asking Quotes

“The tragedy of all political action is that some problems have no solution; none of the alternatives are intellectually consistent or morally uncompromising; and whatever decision is taken will harm somebody.”

Source : James Joll (1960). “Intellectuals in politics: three biographical essays”
“We call a thing big or little with reference to what it is wont to be, as we speak of a small elephant or a big rat.”

Source : D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (2014). “On Growth and Form”, p.16, Cambridge University Press
“In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.”
“The very names assigned to angels by their Creator, convey to us ideas pre-eminently pleasing, fitted to captivate the heart, and exalt the imagination; ideas which dispel gloom, banish despondency, enliven hope, and awaken sincere and unmingled joy.”
“I love that old glamour look. I think it's because I grew up on it.”
“The way I see it, it's a great thing to be the man who hit the most home runs, but it's a greater thing to be the man who did the most with the home runs he hit. So as long as there's a chance that maybe I can hammer out a little justice now and then, or a little opportunity here and there, I intend to do as I always have -- keep swinging.”

Source : Hank Aaron (2009). “I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story”, p.19, Harper Collins
“If you were close enough to her ruby-red lips you would hear her say, 'I will rise now and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek the one I love.' She is whispering that, and she whispers, 'By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth. My beloved is mine and I am his.”
“Every actor I know wants to be a pop star.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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