"I don't think of myself as a critic or teacher either, but simply - and at the obvious risk of disingenuousness - as someone who teaches, writes drama criticism (and other things) and feels that the American compulsion to take your identity from your profession, with its corollary of only one trade to a practitioner, may be a convenience to society but is burdensome and constricting to yourself."

-- Richard Gilman

#Teacher Quotes #Drama Quotes #Writing Quotes

“The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it's going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.”
“Age is not important unless you're a cheese.”
“Nothing in life is trivial. Life is whole wherever and whenever we touch it, and one moment or event is not less sacred than another.”
“The center of the universe is everywhere.”
“I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.”
“One of the objectives of opening play is to try to surprise your opponent.”
“Hyperpolyglots are not born, and they are not made, but they are born to be made. There is a finite subset of the human population which has the right neurological equipment for learning and using lots of languages. That equipment may serve only a sub-component of language learning, such as mimicry, pattern recognition, or memory, or it serves those sub-components in a global fashion.”
“Be careful of your moods and feelings, for there is an unbroken connection between your feelings and your visible world.”

Source : Neville Goddard “Neville's Spiritual Classics”, Lulu.com

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