Famous Quotes & Sayings

Russell Lynes

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.

William Zinsser

I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the product will take care of itself, and sales are likely to follow.

William Jennings Bryan

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

William James

Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.

Roger Ascham

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

Robert Scheer

I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.

Robert M. Hutchins

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.

Salvador Dali

I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of being completely dumb or I would fling myself on my work with a frenzy, a patience, and a willingness to learn that astonished everybody. But to awaken my zeal, it was necessary to offer me something I liked. Once my appetite had been whetted, I became ravenously hungry.

Salman Rushdie

The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.

Carl Jung

Forgiveness is healing. Especially forgiving yourself

Sarah Ban Breathnach

One way of celebrating the Solstice is to consider it a sacred time of reflection, release, restoration, and renewal.

Vanessa Hudgens

I think it's really healing to see movies that are based on true stories. It builds so much more compassion and empathy.

Yoko Ono

Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

Wynonna Judd

To heal from the inside out is the key.

Nancy Werlin

Zach found himself remembering something he'd heard Soledad and Leo saying the previous night, about healing. That it was mysterious. That it took time. And that Lucy was just at the beginning. That a terrible thing had happened - two terrible things, really - but they were now over. And that Lucy would be okay, in the end.

Jorge Luis Borges

From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.

Louise Hay

Love is the most important healing power there is.

Louise Hay

The biggest parts of healing and making myself whole is to accept all of the many parts of myself.

Ryan Kwanten

One of my favorite actors is Paul Newman. He could tell so much with a single look, whereas some actors would need an entire five page monologue to give off the feeling of what he could say with just a single look.

Russell Baker

The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don't do it. I have been out there. It is a mess.

Tyler Hilton

Music comes out of me most naturally and would be the hardest to give up forever.

Tyler Oakley

If you are just yourself, that's when people start gravitating towards you because nobody else can be you except you. Be authentic, don't give up, and start today.

Tyler Perry

God gives everyone a lane and no one can beat you in your lane. Just stay focused on Him and what you are supposed to do. And everything will be alright.

Toyo Ito

I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality.

Reinhold Niebuhr

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed.

William Jennings Bryan

If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.

Woody Allen

No one ever wants the whole script. I give the whole script to people who require the whole script but to those people who don't require the whole script I don't give it to them and no one cares. They're relieved not to have to read extra pages that they're not in.