"Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up."

-- Harvey Cushing

#Educational Quotes #Individualism Quotes #Defeat Quotes

“I like the man who takes the stones Upon his rocky road With smiling lips instead of groans, Whate'er his heavy load Who seizes each as on he goes, And neatly crumbles it, And turns his share of pebbly woes To stores of inner grit.”

Source : John Kendrick Bangs (1920). “The Cheery Way: A Bit of Verse for Every Day”
“I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there's never any gum under any of them.”
“As soon as we get out of our urban shell, we're still at the mercy of nature as individuals.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“It is the wicked deception of love that it begins by making us dwell not upon a woman in the outside world but upon a doll inside our head, the only woman who is always available in fact, the only one we shall ever possess, whom the arbitrary nature of memory, almost as absolute as that of the imagination, may have made as different from the real woman as the real Balbec had been from the Balbec I imagined- a dummy creation that little by little, to our own detriment, we shall force the real woman to resemble.”
“My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.”
“When you are so strongly drawn to music, you can't not be a musician.”

Source : "Between Sets with Debbie Davies". Interview with Karl Stober, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.
“Nature Boy, whats that? Do you run around the forest like Euell Gibbons, eating bark or something?”
“I had hit a critical period in my life, where I changed very much as a person. I consider the person I used to be, dead, and I'm glad that he is. Insecure, frightened, confused, much like a lot of people I know today.”

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