top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University."
Standard
Customized
More
"Real education is never acquisition of knowledge but training of character."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Real education leads to the liberation of the mind."
Author Name
Personal Development
"After all, what is education, if not the unparalleled means to transcend the self- imposed physical limits of the mind and the body."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Experience is a sacred education."
Author Name
Personal Development
"My expectations from the university were perhaps too idealistic. I had dreams of learning things about innovation and discovery in the field of technology, but all of it hit the ground hard, when I faced with the pathetic reality of the so-called higher education system. To my surprise, I found myself stuck behind the walls of meaningless facts, figures and rankings. It occurred to me that, it was not actually a place for education, rather it was a place where you go to get your head filled with useless undigested information, that you'd probably never use throughout your entire life. It was not education, and moreover, it was definitely not science."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Keep reading, Keep learning."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Discovery Determines The System Of Education."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Learn how to learn...then start learning."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The Kingdom of God should be the main goal of our financial investments."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink."
Life
"I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think."
Friendship
"With so much at stake maybe I'll just leave now."
Now
"Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around."
Life
"I think finally good writing gets out there, and people like it, and bad writing doesn't. Well, no. Bad writing does get out there 'cause some people like it."
People
"I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself."
Recognition
"My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I."
Family
"It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live."
Life
"This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely."
Want
"I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!"
Writing
bottom of page