"Hence the vogue for double majors. It isnâ€™t enough anymore to take a bunch of electives in addition to your primary focus, to roam freely across the academic fields, making serendipitous connections and discoveries, the way that American higher education was designed (uniquely, among the worldâ€™s systems) to allow you to do."

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Source : William Deresiewicz (2015). “Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

William Deresiewicz

#Discovery Quotes #Focus Quotes #World Quotes

“You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. Itâ€™s only that.”
“Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.”
“In my early life my mother tried to create a nurturing environment in which my mind could play. Her big rule was "Never lose in your imagination." She told me that thoughts were things and that I would become the thing I thought of most. This kind of empowerment is crucial to creative thinking.”

Source : Joey Reiman (2001). “Thinking for a Living: Creating Ideas That Revitalize Your Business, Career, and Life”, p.141, Taylor Trade Publishing
“The mother gazes at the baby in her arms, and the baby gazes at his mother's face and finds himself therein... provided that the mother is really looking at the unique, small, helpless being and not projecting her own expectations, fears, and plans for the child. In that case, the child would find not himself in his mother's face, but rather the mother's own projections. This child would remain without a mirror, and for the rest of his life would be seeking this mirror in vain.”
“Story is where people go to practice the key skills of human social life.”

Source : Jonathan Gottschall (2012). “The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.”
“The West would be well advised to change its approach towards failing states. At present, no major power can find the correct ways and means - and the numbers of failing states are increasing. This year we watched the collapse of Mali, a consequence of the Libyan civil war. The south of Libya and Mali, and Niger too, are well on the way to becoming a no-man's land. After 9/11, George W. Bush and Tony Blair made the promise that they would not tolerate failed states because they could become a haven for terrorists. And today? The number increases.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Mostly, I think people are fake. Well, what do you expect? The fake world we live in conspires to make us all fakes.”

Source : Benjamin Alire Sáenz (2013). “Last Night I Sang to the Monster”, p.15, Cinco Puntos Press

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