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school figures ifs
You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it. Alan Watts
school hard-work church
But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand. Alan Paton
school age taught
I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself. Alan Moore
school opportunity thinking
I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.
school ideas forgotten
I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really. Alan Bennett
school boys oxford
My experience came before most of you were born. My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn't normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge. But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge. So, half a dozen of us tried - not all of us in history - and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
school care students
I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed. Alan Ball
school exercise keys
Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time. Alan Alda
school thinking lasts
When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
tasks advertising easy
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them. Charles Caleb Colton
tasks generations embrace
Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform. Chinua Achebe
tasks reader
As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not all inherit in the poem. Edward Hirsch
tasks illusion principal
The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions. Arthur Schnitzler
tasks artistic solutions
That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions. Arne Jacobsen
tasks may architecture
In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.
tasks
Unfortunately, I'm an engineer. I'm always thinking about, what's the task and how do I get it done? And some of my tasks are pretty broad, and pretty fuzzy, and pretty funky, but that's the way I think. Michael Porter
tasks problem states
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly. Anton Chekhov
tasks holy knows
While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
masters worst
put on the livery of the best master only to serve the worst.
masters source phenomenon
Religion is interested primarily in the One who is the source of all things, the master of every phenomenon. Aiden Wilson Tozer
masters universe
Fast isn't turning us into Masters of the Universe, It's turning us into Cheech and Chong. Carl Honore
masters theory mathematical
We do not master a scientific theory until we have shelled and completely prised free its mathematical kernel. David Hilbert
masters power-of-thought regions
The power of thought, the vast regions it can master. Bertrand Russell
masters zen-master fangs
What are you, Zen Master Fang? Charlaine Harris
masters method
Methods are the masters of masters. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
masters oaks
I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks. Bernard of Clairvaux
masters inaccessible
Mozart is the most inaccessible of the great masters. Artur Schnabel