"If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others."

-- Confucius

#Teacher Quotes #Self Esteem Quotes #Men Quotes

“I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.”
“Being a narcissist isn't easy when the question is not of loving your own image, but of recreating the self through deliberate acts of alienation.”
“What I like about acting is that you can be a different person every day.”

Source : Interview with Malcolm Gladwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 13, 2017.
“Proofs of the Euclidean [parallel] postulate can be developed to such an extent that apparently a mere trifle remains. But a careful analysis shows that in this seeming trifle lies the crux of the matter; usually it contains either the proposition that is being proved or a postulate equivalent to it.”
“I hope I have a little talent, but a lot of it was luck. I went through setbacks. People said I looked too young, people said I wasn't good, nobody said, 'Come here, baby, we're going to make you a star.' Early on, when I'd say, 'Can I do some anchoring?' people would look at me like I was crazy.”
“The ones who keep giving you reasons why you won't succeed, are probably the ones who wish that you won't. Listen to your heart. Follow your dream. It is not a question whether your dream is impossible. It is a question of how badly you want it.”
“Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.”

Source : H. Beam Piper (2010). “A Slave Is a Slave”, p.5, eStar Books
“Academia is a graveyard of poets.”

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