"The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present."

-- Ellen Key

#Light Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Educator Quotes

“My only regret is that we didn't have more kids. I came from a family of four kids, but my wife and I just started too late.”
“The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature.”

Source : "From the cells up" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2005.
“The easiest way to separate yourself from the unformed blobby mass of "aspiring" writers is to a) actually write and b) actually finish. That's how easy it is to clamber up the ladder to the second echelon. Write. And finish what you write. That's how you break away from the pack and leave the rest of the sickly herd for the hungry wolves of shame and self-doubt. And for all I know, actual wolves.”
“I detest war; it ruins conversation”
“Big dreams are risky business. The psyche can be fiendish, puckish, exalted, imperious, tender, sardonic, faithful, pestilential--whatever rivets our attention upon the task of psychic growth. It is not so hard to find at least a little sympathy for theologian Martin Luther, who prayed to God not to send him any dreams at all, fearful he could not distinguish between those of divine origin and those sent by the Devil.”
“In this world of ours, a world of powerful centers and subjugated outposts, there is no wealth that must not be held in some suspicion.”
“Any method which appears to offer advantages to a nation at war will be vigorously employed by that nation. There is but one logical course to pursue, namely, to study the possibilities of such warfare from every angle ...”
“The fundamental steps of expansion that will open a person, over time, to the full flowering of his or her individuality are the same for both genders. But men and women are rarely in the same place struggling with the same questions at the same age.”

Source : Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam

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