Kwakernaat Quotes & Sayings

For me to get through the toughest periods in my life, I had to look within to find the energy to do it. I don't give up. Never have. Never will. — Jonah Lomu

Our schools teach the opposite: institutionalized education traffics in a kind of homogenized, generic knowledge. Everybody who passes through the American school system learns not to think in power law terms. Every high school course period lasts 45 minutes whatever the subject. Every student proceeds at a similar pace. At college, model students obsessively hedge their futures by assembling a suite of exotic and minor skills. Every university believes in "excellence," and hundred-page course catalogs arranged alphabetically according to arbitrary departments of knowledge seem designed to reassure you that "it doesn't matter what you do, as long as you do it well." That is completely false. It does matter what you do. You should focus relentlessly on something you're good at doing, but before that you must think hard about whether it will be valuable in the future. — Peter Thiel

The rule should be to minimize the need for people to get together to accomplish anything. — Peter Drucker

Let's live our lives with great meaning and purpose in the attempt to influence the world to whatever degree our circumstance allows. — Chris Matakas

My mother was adored by her family and by the scores of children she took care of and their parents, all of whom called her 'Miss Woody.' — Judy Woodruff

You can't do what you want to, so just do what you have to. — Moveena Rasheed

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. — Carol Burnett

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. — Anais Nin