"To the world's most perfect woman. It was lucky my father was not present. Perfect is an absolute that cannot be modified, like unique or pregnant. My love for Rosie was so powerful that it had caused my brain to make a grammatical error."

-- Graeme Simsion

#Love Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Father Quotes

“At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has been try to learn, try to understand what happened. Develop the lessons and pass them on.”

Source : Robert S. McNamara (2004). “Official Teacher's Guide for The Fog of War: An Errol Morris Film”
“I'll tell you what you need to be a great scientist. You don't have to be able understand very complicated things. It's just the opposite. You have to be able to see what looks like the most complicated thing in the world and, in a flash, find the underlying simplicity. That's what you need: a talent for simplicity.”
“To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.”
“Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of.”
“Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.”
“Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later -- the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui -- these are the true hero's enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real.”
“I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.”
“Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.”

Source : John Dewey (1980). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924”, p.161, SIU Press

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