Dheya Dashboard Quotes & Sayings

You see it in schools all over ... the concept that 'I'll be somewhat less than my best in order to make those around me feel more comfortable' is alive and well ... I'm very keen that they understand that if they make themselves a little less than they can be, it is a one-way street to mediocrity. — Fiona Wood

Stores gone, post office gone, train gone, school gone, oil gone, boys and girls gone - only thing not gone is graveyard and it git bigger. — David Grann

This wasn't life, of course. This was life support. This was what the medical world had fashioned to take the place of Purgatory. — Daniel Wallace

education tends to move individuals toward a more extreme version of the dominant cultural tendency. — Erin Meyer

Learning to speak is like learning to shoot. — Avital Ronell

Ridley Pearson also plays bass guitar and sings with the Rock Bottom Remainders, a band made up of such successful authors as Amy Tan, Stephen King, and Dave Barry-a band that, according to Barry, "plays music as well as Metallica writes novels". — Otto Penzler

We all desire the future to turn out more happily than I have figured it. In particular we desire our present civilization to advance steadily toward some kind of Utopia. The thought that it may decay and collapse, and that all its spiritual treasure may be lost irrevocably, is repugnant to us. Yet this must be faced as at least a possibility. — Olaf Stapledon

What makes a writer successful is not money or fame (though both are nice) ... it's that in being true to her or himself, the words were able to connect to a reader's heart. — Miyoko Hikiji

Do as adversaries do in law, Strive mightily but eat and drink as friends. Taming — William Shakespeare

Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans. — William Blake

Any item in your wardrobe should satisfy one of two criteria: utility and joy. — Stacy London