"I tell my students, it's got to be warm, dry, and noble."

-- Samuel Mockbee

#Dry Quotes #Noble Quotes #Students Quotes

“I love rewriting because that is where and how you discover the story. Its like you have this skeleton, and you get to put flesh on it and hair and clothes and really wonderful jewelry.”
“the patriarchal family, with its division of functions between a providing and protective father and a home-making, submissive mother, however satisfactory it may have been in its time, has outlived its day. Bread-winning is no longer a monopoly of men, and home-making should no longer be the monopoly of women.”

Source : Alva Myrdal, Viola Klein (2003). “Women's Two Roles: Home and Work”, p.161, Psychology Press
“To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, we try to force them to do what they do not find satisfying.”

Source : William Glasser, M.D. (2010). “Choice Theory in the Classroom”, p.13, Harper Collins
“You do things and do things and nobody really has a clue.”
“The last time I took drugs, I probably took more than anybody could survive.”
“You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.”
“And the joys I've felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently. When I was your age, my grandfather bought me a ruby bracelet. It as too big for me an would slide up and down my arm. It was almost a necklace. He later told me that he had asked the jeweler make that way. Its size was supposed to be a symbol of his love. More rubies, more love. But I could not wear it comfortably. I could not wear it at all. So here is the point of everything I have been trying to say. IF I were to give a bracelet to you, now, I would measure your wrist twice”
“In true budo there is no enemy or opponent. True budo is to become one with the universe, not train to become powerful or to throw down some opponent. Rather we train in hopes of being of some use, however small our role may be, in the task of bringing peace to mankind around the world.”

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