"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre."

-- Gail Godwin

#Inspirational Quotes #Thank You Quotes #Education Quotes

“Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.”
“If you don't speak out when it matters, when would it matter to speak out?”
“No matter where the body is, the mind is free to go elsewhere.”

Source : William Henry Davies, “The Mind's Liberty”
“Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?”

Source : Interview with Studs Terkel, 1960.
“Despite very harsh living conditions and the trauma of what they went through, they [Sudanese refugees] had a lot of dignity”
“I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers.”
“A fellow must know where he wants to go, if he is going to get anywhere. It is so easy just to drift along. Some people go through school as if they thought they were doing their families a favor. On a job, they work along in a humdrum way, interested only in their salary check. They don't have a goal. When anyone crosses them up, they take their marbles and walk out. The people who go places and do things make the most of every situation. They are ready for the next thing that comes along on the road to their goal. They know what they want and are willing to go an extra mile.”
“If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.”

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