"When teaching, light a fire, don't fill a bucket."

-- Dan Snow

#Teaching Quotes #Fire Quotes #Light Quotes

“I just don't believe in helping people who are going to torture me. Though I don't see any bamboo slivers. How can you possibly torture someone without bamboo slivers?”
“I think you can have a whole terrific, smart career as a second and third banana and work more and have much less risk than the lead guy. But I like being the lead guy.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Listening to someone who brews their own beer is like listening to a religious fanatic talk about the day he saw the light.”
“The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree.”

Source : Thomas Reid (1822). “The Works of Thomas Reid; with an Account of His Life and Writings”, p.367
“That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or cry: even as a child he had found it extraordinary and it never stopped impressing him. How did words do that? Wasn't it like magic?”

Source : Pascal Mercier (2009). “Night Train To Lisbon”, p.28, Atlantic Books Ltd
“I put a lot of emphasis on how to treat people. The reason for this is simple. The real success of our personal lives and careers can best be measured by the relationships we have with the people most dear to us - our family, friends, and coworkers. If we fail in this aspect of our lives, no matter how vast our worldly possessions or how high on the corporate ladder we climb, we will have achieved very little.”
“Pride that you express to others is ego. Pride that you express silently to yourself is real pride.”
“The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed. . . . The problem of evolving a nonviolent way of economic life [in the West] and that of developing the underdeveloped countries may well turn out to be largely identical.”

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