"Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know."

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Leslie Fiedler

#Teacher Quotes #Students Quotes #Great Teacher Quotes

“We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.”
“When you play long enough, everybody goes through spells and streaks and slumps of some nature. I think it's just one of the those things where you have to play yourself out of it.”
“Americans are all inquisitive, which accounts for their go-aheadativeness, I dare say.”

Source : May Agnes Fleming (2014). “The Baronet's Bride: Or a Woman's Vengeance”, p.178, The Floating Press
“The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not the capacity to make their works exalt - they meditate, protest, analyze, reason, calculate and brood, but they do not exalt.”
“...Humans were the only creatures in the world that ate their food cooked. You'd never find a Gorilla frying up some bananas for dinner or a lion charcoal-broiling a zebra steak. Cats don't often run to the oven with a mouse or bird they've captured, and a dog wouldn't naturally prepare its rabbit dinner in a stew.”
“What’s wrong with just talking? Isn’t that why bars were invented? So you could talk to somebody over a drink—as opposed to sitting at home alone getting sloshed?”
“I like Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory because some children deserve to be taken to a chocolate factory and tortured. I like Dawn of the dead because you don't normally get to kill all of the zombies hanging out at the mall.”
“The trouble with most therapy is that it helps you feel better. But you don't get better. You have to back it up with action, action, action.”

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