Heckerling Institute Quotes & Sayings

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones. — Abraham Lincoln

Love is not a higher quality than truth. — Rajneesh

The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent. — Albert Einstein

The shift from the perception of the child as innocent to the perception of the child as competent has greatly increased the demands on contemporary children for maturity, for participating in competitive sports, for early academic achievement, and for protecting themselves against adults who might do them harm. While children might be able to cope with any one of those demands taken singly, taken together they often exceed children's adaptive capacity. — David Elkind

In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent. — Aldous Huxley

Nothing good has ever been written about the full rotation of a racecar about its roll axis. — Carroll Smith

The causes of his embitterment were many, remote and near. He was angry with himself for being young and the prey of restless foolish impulses, angry also with the change of fortune which was reshaping the world about him into a vision of squalor and insincerity. Yet his anger lent nothing to the vision. He chronicled with patience what he saw, detaching himself from it and tasting its mortifying flavour in secret. — James Joyce

It was a fabled railway that was the issue of desperation and fanaticism, made as much of myth and unreality as it was to be of wood and iron and the thousands upon thousands of lives that were to be laid down over the next year to build it. But what reality was ever made by realists? — Richard Flanagan

I've been very lucky in my life to have some great teachers. — Brian Lindstrom

I'm sorry that I made you feel like you needed to go the rest of the way alone. — Jodi Meadows