"In passing, I firmly believe that research should be offset by a certain amount of teaching, if only as a change from the agony of research. The trouble, however, I freely admit, is that in practice you get either no teaching, or else far too much."

-- John Edensor Littlewood

#Believe Quotes #Teaching Quotes #Practice Quotes

“Failure is just success rounded down.”

Source : Dinosaur Comic Dialogue, www.qwantz.com.
“I'm obsessed with 'Game of Thrones.' I love comedies - I really like '30 Rock' and 'Modern Family.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In high school I went to the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. And this is like Fame. It's like that sort of prototypical, dancers in the hallway, theater students, musical students, art geeks. And it was a kindergarten in the truest sense of the world: a children's garden where I was able to sort of really come into myself as an artist, as a person, sexuality issues - like, all of this became something where there was a firming-up and a knowing that went on.”
“You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy.”
“Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.”
“When a child is born, the entire Universe has to shift and make room. Another entity capable of free will, and therefore capable of becoming God, has been born.”

Source : Ina May Gaskin (2010). “Spiritual Midwifery”, p.13, Book Publishing Company
“There are among us those that would criticize our Confederate ancestors. Would you allow a stranger to come into your house and criticize your little ones? I say it's not whether we should be ashamed of our fathers and mothers of the Old Confederacy. I say it's a question of whether they should be ashamed of us.”
“I, methought, while the sweet breath of heaven Was blowing on my body, felt within A correspondent breeze, that gently moved With quickening virtue, but is now become A tempest, a redundant energy, Vexing its own creation.”

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