"We are all concerned about the future of American education. But as I tell my students, you do not enter the future - you create the future. The future is created through hard work."

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Jaime Escalante

#Hard Work Quotes #Knowledge Quotes #Math Quotes

“The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only the shadow in dreams.”
“You put together two people who have not been put together before. Sometimes it is like that first attempt to harness a hydrogen balloon to a fire balloon: do you prefer crash and burn, or burn and crash? But sometimes it works, and something new is made, and the world is changed. Then, at some point, sooner or later, for this reason or that, one of them is taken away. and what is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. this may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible.”

Source : "Review Essay on Levels of Life” by Julian Barnes" by Robert D. Stolorow, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2014.
“You asked me if I believed in magic, and I said yes, and that's how. You just step out, start pulling your life out of the air. You make friends, you find work you really like doing, you find places. You find diners and Laundromats. You find beaches. You find a junk car and drive it for a month, then lave it beside the road. You find someone to fall in love with you. You make it all up as you go. Or, you know, maybe it makes you up.”

Source : Brad Barkley, Heather Hepler (2007). “Dream Factory”, p.66, Penguin
“I highly suggest marriage to all my friends who are dating.”
“Dullness is the spice of life. Which is why we must always use other spices.”
“No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.”
“I'm not a plumber who accidentally blew up or a math professor who accidentally backed into notoriety. I have a master's from Yale drama, and I auditioned for this. So obviously I want to be in the limelight in some capacity, or I want to be in entertainment in some capacity.”
“People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.”

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