“The right time is now, pursue you dreams!”
“If I d learned nothing else in my twenty-seven years on this planet, I d learned that when someone gives you something totally unexpected and undeserved, you don t ask questions.”
“Be inquisitive. Open your eyes, open your minds to things you don t necessarily know even exist. I think that s an important part of learning and growing. The more [you] re willing to ask, the more {you} re going to get out of it.”
“Even when walking in the company of two other men, I am bound to be able to learn from them. The good points of the one I copy, the bad points of the other I correct in myself.”
“History is finite-there s only so much you can learn about a six square block historic district in New York City. (Dark City Lights)”
“Sometimes we find ourselves thinking that since the call comes from the Lord, everything ought to work out smoothly, with every potential obstacle removed. We forget sometimes that life is a schooling provided for our growth and development, and that if every time we went on the Lord s errand, things were to go perfectly well because of the Lord s blessing, we would be deprived of much of our education. {re 1 Nephi 3:7}”
“The First Book Open it. Go ahead, it won t bite. Well. . . maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It s pleasurable, really. You see, it keeps on opening. You may fall in. Sure, it s hard to get started; remember learning to use knife and fork? Dig in: you ll never reach bottom. It s not like it s the end of the world-- just the world as you think you know it.”
“And the final product of our training must be neither a psychologist nor a brick mason, but a man. And to make men, we must have ideals, broad, pure, and inspiring ends of living, not sordid money-getting... The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not fame.”
“The more you learn, the more you know, you don’t know enough.”
“~I hope that in this year to come, YOU make mistakes. Because if YOU are making mistakes, then YOU are making NEW things, trying NEW things, learning, living, pushing YOURself, changing YOURself, changing YOUR world. YOU re doing things YOU ve never done before, n MORE importantly, YOU re doing something~”
“Every journey taken always includes the path not taken, the detour through hell, the crossroads of indecision and the long way home.”
“It began to strike me that the point of my education was a kind of discomfort, was the process that would not award me my own especial Dream but would break all the dreams, all the comforting myths of Africa, of America, and everywhere, and would leave me only with humanity in all its terribleness. And there was so much terrible out there, even among us. You must understand this.”
“Look at their arts, their power of turning stone into lifelike figures, and above all, the way in which they can transfer their thoughts to white leaves, so that others, many many years hence, can read them and know all that was passing, and what men thought and did in the long bygone. Truly it is marvelous.”
“It is truly horrible to understand yourself as the essential below of your country. It breaks too much of what we would like to think about ourselves, our lives, the world we move through and the people who surround us. The struggle to understand is our only advantage over this madness.”
“The most influential of all educational factor is the conversation in a child s home.”
“The only way to learn new things is to ask questions and be curious. Find the people who inspire your curiosity because those are the ones you will most learn from.”
“Teachers are often, and understandably, impatient for their students to develop clear and adequate ideas. But putting ideas in relation to each other isn t a simple job. It s confusing and this confusion does take time. All of us need time for our confusion if we are to build the breadth and depth that give significance to our knowledge.”