"Whoa, Rebecca," Talia said smiling even wider, "Walking on the wild side, are we?" Raisa seemed to think the situation needed more explaining. "He - uh - I'm tutoring him." "She is," Han said solemnly. "She's very good. I'm learning a lot." Pearlie snickered. "What's she teaching you?" "Well," Han said, "we're jumping around a lot."

-- Cinda Williams Chima

#Teaching Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Jumping Quotes

“The will to win is more important then the skill to win. It is possible to achieve only what you actively pursue. Cogito, ergo sum. I think, therefore I am. Keep your head high and work hard everyday, because you'll never get that day back”
“When I heard Jonathan [Cole's agent] repeat the figure of Â£55k-a-week, I nearly swerved off the road. 'He is taking the p**s, Jonathan!' I yelled down the phone. I was so incensed. I was trembling with anger. I couldn't believe what I'd heard.”

Source : "A man of our times" by Martin Kettle, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2006.
“Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.”
“I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.”
“I told him that for a modern scientist, practicing experimental research, the least that could be said, is that we do not know. But I felt that such a negative answer was only part of the truth. I told him that in this universe in which we live, unbounded in space, infinite in stored energy and, who knows, unlimited in time, the adequate and positive answer, according to my belief, is that this universe may, also, possess infinite potentialities.”
“Every generation feels it has the problems that will destroy it. That's because we can perceive them a long time before we have the ability to fix them.”
“Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.”
“I trust to luck. I am planning to be a millionaire before I die but I don't have a plan as to how that will happen.”

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