The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
-Maria Montessori, educator (31 Aug 1870-1952)
practice to deceive
O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive!
-Walter Scott, novelist and poet (1771-1832)
Vision and...
"Leading with integrity and empathy requires vision and a connection to your deepest self."
~ Karla McLaren
suppresses idle details...
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
- Jorge Luis Borges, writer (1899-1986)
More physics stuff
The more physics you have the less engineering you need.
-Ernest Rutherford, physicist, Nobel laureate in chemistry (1871-1937)
Help that help
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
- Epicurus
Time Value...
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (1749-1832)
Supply Vs Demand
In the new version of the law of supply and demand, jobs are so cheap -- as measured by the pay -- that a worker is encouraged to take on as many of them as she possibly can.
-Barbara Ehrenreich, journalist and author (b. 26 Aug 1941)
99% and 1%
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
- Albert EinsteinNormalizing Self
I have no respect for people who deliberately try to be weird to attract attention, but if that's who you honestly are, you shouldn't try to "normalize" yourself.
-Alicia Witt, actress, singer-songwriter, and pianist (b. 21 Aug 1975)
Surface flow...
Errors like straws upon the surface flow;
Who would search for pearls must dive below.
-John Dryden, poet and dramatist (1631-1700)
Activist vs Terrorist
Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn't make a corporation a terrorist.
-Winona LaDuke, activist, environmentalist, economist, and writer (b. 18 Aug 1959)
Two languages..
I speak two languages, Body and English.
-Mae West, actress, playwright, singer, screenwriter, and comedian (1893-1980)
Overturn the false narrative
A poem cannot stop a bullet.
A novel can't defuse a bomb...
But we are not helpless...
We can sing the truth and name the liars...
we must work to overturn the false narrative of tyrants.
-Salman Rushdie, writer (b. 1947)
...to obey
It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only ambition is to obey.
-Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (11 Aug 1833-1899)
Pessimist, Optimist & Realist
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."
~ William Arthur Ward
belief vs fact
No amount of belief makes something a fact.
-James Randi, magician and skeptic (1928-2020)
Modern war VS Modern industry
How would you describe the difference between modern war and modern industry -- between, say, bombing and strip mining, or between chemical warfare and chemical manufacturing? The difference seems to be only that in war the victimization of humans is directly intentional and in industry it is "accepted" as a "trade-off".
-Wendell Berry, farmer and author (b. 5 Aug 1934)
...Strong enough
I am strong enough to become the person I wish to be. No person's perception of me can interfere with my understanding of myself.
Fear of dealing...
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
-James Baldwin, writer (1924-1987)
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