Quotes
Authors
George Polya

"To teach effectively a teacher must develop a feeling for his subject; he cannot make his students sense its vitality if he does not sense it himself. He cannot share his enthusiasm when he has no enthusiasm to share. How he makes his point may be as important as the point he makes; he must personally feel it to be important."

Source : George Pólya, Leon Bowden (1977). “Mathematical Methods in Science”, p.1, Cambridge University Press

George Polya

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“Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.”
“Because your brain uses information from the areas around the blind spot to make a reasonable guess about what the blind spot would see if only it weren't blind, and then your brain fills in the scene with this information. That's right, it invents things, creates things, makes stuff up! It doesn't consult you about this, doesn't seek your approval. It just makes its best guess about the nature of the missing information and proceeds to fill in the scene...”
“Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.”

Source : "Natalie Merchant: mother superior" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. July 08, 2010.
“My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“While I was looking the other way your fire went out. Left me with cinders to kick into dust, what a waste of the wonder you were”
“I'm very open and honest, and I feel like it's important for women to hear that we're not perfect; none of us are perfect. And sometimes we aspire to have these ideas in our heads of what perfection is, and I probably would've been better off if I'd left myself alone.”
“To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle. We mend. We women turn things inside out and set things right. We salvage what we can of human garments and piece the rest into blankets. Sometimes our stitches stutter and slow. Only a woman's eyes can tell. Other times, the tension in the stitches might be too tight because of tears, but only we know what emotion went into the making. Only women can hear the prayer.”
“I don't think I was ever...trying to kill myself but I knew that if I'd ever gone too far...I wouldn't care.”

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