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educational keys doors
A very little key will open a very heavy door. Charles Dickens
education teaching brain
Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it. Charles Caleb Colton
education book men
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are. Charles Caleb Colton
education mind armor
The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind. Charles Caleb Colton
education teaching knowledge
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. Charles Caleb Colton
education prayer men
An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate. Charles Stanley
educational clothes giving
Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life. Alan Watts
education learning buddhism
A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily. Alan Watts
education country government
The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country. Al Sharpton
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. Alan Moore
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. Alan Bennett
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. Alan Alda
destiny needs stories
And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. Alan Rickman
destiny shapes
You shape your own destiny. Chet Atkins
destiny choices taught
That’s what you taught me - we don’t have to accept destiny or Des Tiny. We can create our own future, all of us. We have the power to rule our lives - we just have to make the choice to use it. Darren Shan
destiny cards nudge
Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116 Darren Shan
destiny faces
Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. Darren Shan
destiny fundamentals levels
Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace. Cesare Pavese
destiny way mess
Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny. Cesare Pavese
destiny hard-times captains
I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship. Cesare Pavese
destiny want cigarette
From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette Cesare Pavese