"A friend suggested that I get a job at a children's book store so I could meet kids and read books, and that turned out to be the single best bit of advice I've ever gotten."

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Brian Selznick

#Jobs Quotes #Children Quotes #Book Quotes

“Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.”

Source : Lawrence Kohlberg (1973). “Collected papers on moral development and moral education”
“I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe were all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.”
“But it's been funny to try and carry the through line, but I think the main thing is the relationship that the band has because we have spent now all this time together that I think that's sort of what we returning to. And whenever we get to play together, it still sort of returns to that little shitty rehearsal space. So that's good.”
“I had to spend countless hours, above and beyond the basic time, to try and perfect the fundamentals.”

Source : "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.
“If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.”
“Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power or of spirituality. To rise in an elevator, balloon, or airplane is to experience being liberated from weight, sublimated, invested with superhuman abilities. In addition, to rise from the earth is to approach the realm of light and overview. Therefore the negative overcoming of weight is at the same time the positive achievement of enlightenment and an unobstructed outlook.”
“The revelatory or visionary is the province of the 'private' artist, who in order to render his personal world comprehensible or even tolerable, must force others to believe in it and therefore share it. It is said that 'the poet does not wish to be understood, but to be believed.”
“When the desirable jobs are spending other people's money, reporting on spending other people's money and lobbying to spend other people's money then you know that the society is f***ed.”

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