"I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this."

-- A. C. Benson

#Life Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Self Esteem Quotes

“First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.”

Source : Fitzhugh Dodson (1977). “The You That Could Be”, New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks
“Pen-bereavement is a serious matter.”

Source : Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.89, Macmillan
“Tell him solitude is creative if he is strong and the final decisions are made in silent rooms. Tell him to be different from other people if it comes natural and easy being different. Let him have lazy days seeking his deeper motives. Let him seek deep for where he is a born natural. Then he may understand Shakespeare and the Wright brothers, Pasteur, Pavlov, Michael Faraday and free imaginations Bringing changes into a world resenting change. He will be lonely enough to have time for the work he knows as his own.”
“I feel like I've lived the dream for sure, I'm the luckiest guy in the world and I never forget that. I always feel like I'm proof of positive thought and manifestation, and that faith is more important than talent. But if you have both you're really doing something.”
“Do any of us understand ourselves? all the different selves that each of us is?”
“Seems you can't outsmart Mother Nature.”

Source : FaceBook post by Mark Hyman, MD from Jan 11, 2013
“Equestrian and sailing are sports for people growing up on the mean streets of Connecticut.”
“It doesn't feel good when you have to struggle to get your pants on.”

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