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The beginning of adolescence seems to mark the abrupt end of artistic development in terms of drawing skills for many adults. As children, they confronted an artistic crisis, a conflict between their increasingly complex perceptions of the world around them and their current level of art skill.
Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right.
You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace.
You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.
We choose our destiny in the way we treat others.
On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.
I have done my best: that is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
You get peace of mind not by thinking about it or imagining it, but by quietening and relaxing the restless mind.
Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
See, you finish a book by writing it, but in my head, it’s not really done until it’s sitting in your hand.
Freedom isn’t worth having if it doesn’t involve the freedom to make mistakes.
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
I’ll tell you a riddle. You’re waiting for a train, a train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you don’t know for sure. But it doesn’t matter. How can it not matter to you where the train will take you?
Movie: Inception
A diamond is just a piece of charcoal that handled stress exceptionally well.
Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
Proverb: Chinese Proverb
Today’s child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns, subjects, and schedules.
Just as we would not traditionally assume that someone is literate if they can read but not write, we should not assume that someone possesses media literacy if they can consume but not express themselves.
Book: Convergence Culture
If you love someone tell them. Most importantly, stay close to your friends. Let it make a difference in your day and theirs.
The object of a liberal training is not learning, but discipline and the enlightenment of the mind. The educated man is to be discovered by his point of view, by the temper of his mind, by hit attitude towards life and his fair way of thinking. He can see, he can discriminate, he can combine ideas and perceieve whither they lead; he has insight and comprehension. His mind is a pracised instrument of appreciation. He is more apt to contribute light than heat to a discussion, and will oftener than another show the power of uniting the elements of a difficult subject in a whole view; he has the knowledge of the world which no one can have who knows only his own generation or only his own task.
What we should seek to impart in our colleges, therefore, is not so much learning itself as the spirit of learning. You can impart that to young men; and you can impart it to them in the three or four years at your disposal. It consists in the power to distinguish good reasoning from bad, in the power to digest and interpret evidence, in a habit of catholic observation and a preference for the non-partisan point of view, in an addiction to clear and logical prcesses of thought and yet and instinctive desire to interpret rather than to stick in the letter of the reasoning, in a taste for knowledge and a deep respect for the integrity of the human mind. It is citizenship of the world of knowledge, but not ownership of it.
What we should seek to impart in our colleges, therefore, is not so much learning itself as the spirit of learning. You can impart that to young men; and you can impart it to them in the three or four years at your disposal. It consists in the power to distinguish good reasoning from bad, in the power to digest and interpret evidence, in a habit of catholic observation and a preference for the non-partisan point of view, in an addiction to clear and logical prcesses of thought and yet and instinctive desire to interpret rather than to stick in the letter of the reasoning, in a taste for knowledge and a deep respect for the integrity of the human mind. It is citizenship of the world of knowledge, but not ownership of it.
Raphael, you always bear the world’s problems on your shoulders. It is an admirable quality when you are a protector of others. But you must realize that while at times you might not be my favorite student, it does not mean that you are my least favorite son. You are strong, passionate, and loyal to your fault. These are the merits of a great leader as well, but only when tempered with compassion and humility.
Movie: TMNT
I hate you because you crawl within my head as she does, but your presence holds no thoughts, no teachings, you are just… there, unspoken. I hate you because you are beautiful to me. And in that weakness lies death.
Video game: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
An educational system isn’t worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living and doesn’t teach them how to live.
Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with books on algebra etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the creative bug is just a wee voice telling you, “I’d like my crayons back, please.”
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
Of all weapons, Love is the most deadly and devastating and few there be who thrust their fate in its hands.
What upsets people is not things themselves but their judgments about the things.
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
They must find it difficult… Those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
It’s like driving a car at night. You never see farther than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
My goal as a writer is for the player to want to see the cutscenes. Earn your audience. Forcing people to sit through your glorified fanfic is the gaming equivalent of date rape.
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A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
Being hung over is like winning the lottery, except they pay you in regret!
Comic: http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001055.html
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