"Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius."

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Education Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Foundation Quotes

“I'd say I learned a lot. It's all about whether or not I can apply it.”
“I had a total revelation with the feminist moment, with Carolee Scheeman and Marina Abromovic and of course Joan Jonas; that was a big breakthrough with me. And through them, I was introduced to Chris Burden and Bruce Nauman and Vito Acconci. You can almost call it a gang, because the works are always talking together. That stuff had a huge impact on me, but other than that, my interest had always been old paintings.”
“For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor.”
“Fans feel they know me, so they want me to be on-the-spot funny, and it's hard to fulfil their expectations.”
“Symbols give us our identity, our self image, our way of explaining ourselves to ourselves and to others. Symbols in turn determine the kinds of stories we tell, and the stories we tell determine the kind of history we make and remake.”

Source : Fergus Finlay, Mary Robinson (1990). “Mary Robinson: A President With a Purpose”, O'Brien Pr
“Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.”

Source : Nicholas Murray Butler (1951). “Commencement Addresses”
“I was chased through a chateau in the Loire Valley by a bunch of American school girls.”
“First frost meant letting go, so it was always reason to celebrate.”

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