"I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now."

-- Mike Krzyzewski

#Teacher Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Parent Quotes

“The most important thing in my life is that trying to ameliorate, redeem, the image in particular of African American men, or Black men - I don't really even like that term, "African American," because we're Black people.”
“In order to grow at this pace, there will have to be a couple of acquisitions along the way. The tricky thing is to grow at this rate and maintain a 40 percent operating margin.”
“Therapy isn't curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose as a therapist is to find out what it means to be human. Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, "This is me and the world be damned!" Leaders have always been the ones to stand against the society - Socrates, Christ, Freud, all the way down the line.”
“I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.”

Source : "An Uncommon Scold". Book by Abby Adams, 1989.
“It is possible to make each year bring with it a lasting gift to add to the fullness of experience, to be treasured up, savored, and remembered. They need not be startling, these gifts of the years; they may be things that lie within the reach of all.”
“Barnsley have started off the way they mean to begin.”
“The fracture of pencil still useful, but the fracture of soul, we couldn't use it, Mister.”
“Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.”

Source : Robert Jordan (2010). “The Shadow Rising: Book Four of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.271, Macmillan

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