top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place."
Standard
Customized
More
"The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows."
Author Name
Personal Development
"This philosophy teaches us to leave safe harbor for the rough seas of real-world experience, and to accept that a rough copy out in the world serves us far greater than a masterpiece sitting quietly on our shelves."
Author Name
Personal Development
"What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"Reflection and learning are lifelong processes..."
Author Name
Personal Development
"In fact, mistakes are life's way of teaching us the right way to do things."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You will never know all there is to know. You will learn until your final days. Then you will inspire someone else. This is what an artist does."
Author Name
Personal Development
"He was a quick fellow, and when hot from play, would toss himself in a corner, and in five minutes be deep in any sort of book that he could lay his hands on: if it were Rasselas or Gulliver, so much the better, but Bailey's Dictionary would do, or the Bible with the Apocrypha in it. Something he must read, when he was not riding the pony, or running and hunting, or listening to the talk of men. All this was true of him at ten years of age; he had then read through Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea, which was neither milk for babes, nor any chalky mixture meant to pass for milk, and it had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Your ability to learn from the experiences of other successful people is one of your most important habits that will give you the best chance of success."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Everything I know, I learned from dogs."
Author Name
Personal Development
"To err is human. To count other people's errors is humane."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy."
Living
"Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can."
Dress
"Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity."
Identity
"You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out."
Time
"In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something."
Understanding
"I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place."
Learning
"When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to problems, we are in need of another vision."
Vision
"Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately."
Humanity
"You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism."
Family
"I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like."
Man
bottom of page