"People do not retire. They are retired by others."

-- Duke Ellington

#People Quotes #Age Quotes #Aging Quotes

“Playing Shakespeare is really tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're the king.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“The war of my life had begun; and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered.”

Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.29, Prestwick House Inc
“I'm doing a lot of cognitive processing. I'm gathering research. I'm processing it. I'm arranging the data. I'm sorting out the narrative. I'm designing. It's almost as if I do all the cognitive work that you then don't have to do. I digest it, process it, and then offer something that's very easy for you to digest.”
“Agape means recognition of the fact that all life is interrelated. All humanity is involved in a single process, and all men are brothers. To the degree that I harm my brother, no matter what he is doing to me, to that extent I am harming myself.”
“Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.”
“Live your dream. Do what you came here to do.”
“In today's world parents find themselves at the mercy of a society which imposes pressures and priorities that allow neither timenor place for meaningful activities and relations between children and adults, which downgrade the role of parents and the functions of parenthood, and which prevent the parent from doing things he wants to do as a guide, friend, and companion to his children.”

Source : Urie bronfenbrenner (1978). “2 Wrlds Childhood”, Pocket Books
“An alarming number of parents appear to have little confidence in their ability to "teach" their children. We should help parents understand the overriding importance of incidental teaching in the context of warm, consistent companionship. Such caring is usually the greatest teaching, especially if caring means sharing in the activites of the home.”

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