Lections Etc Quotes & Sayings

Our genetic endowments, coupled with many early environmental impacts, establish our childhood intelligence. An environment lacking a sufficient level of stimulation stifles our mental development. An environment with a sufficient level of stimulation enables our genetically different abilities to flower, and at the same time often sets into motion positive social and cultural pressures that reinforce our improvement. — Shlomo Breznitz

I knew I was a writer; I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't know what to write. — Alan Furst

Ha. Admit it: you don't have the slightest idea what you are doing, you never ever did. With all the nets in the world, real or unreal. You swam around in a flashing confused school following the tail of the fish in front. Pretty much. Nibbling at whatever passed, in whatever current you swam into.
Even the love of your life felt like luck, like she might vanish in the finning crowd at any moment. Which she did. — Peter Heller

Mix a conviction with a man and ... — Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

I don't mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart; the same way you can hear a song in your head even if there isn't a radio playing; the same way you can hear those blackbirds flying when they're not in the sky — Adam Rapp

[E]lections amount to little more than choosing between the scum that floats to the top of the barrel and the dregs that settle to the bottom. — L. Neil Smith

An actor's job is about putting across the author's intention; I don't think of myself on the same level as a creator. — Jane Asher

It ought to be remembered by all [that] the Games more than 2,000 years ago started as a means of bringing peace between the Greek city-states. And in those days, even if a war was going on, they called off the war in order to hold the Games. I wish we were still as civilized. — Ronald Reagan

People are mystified by it and so they kind of think, the acting community thinks they're gonna be replaced by CG characters and animators think they're gonna be replaced by performance capture (and) a lot of directors, particularly European directors, who have no experience of it. — Andy Serkis

A positive outlook breeds success, just as a negative outlook breeds failure. — Brad Cohen

why am i dying to live, if im just living to die? — Levi Miller

Looking out over the expanse ahead I saw not an empty wasteland but something simpler: a blank page on which I would go on. — Paul Kalanithi

A breach in trust brings mistrust, followed by a multitude of troubles. — Pawan Mishra

Truth will always reassert itself, given a symbolic three days. Three days represents the time it takes between the crucifixion and the resurrection, between an open-hearted response to hurt and the experience of rebirth that will always follow. — Marianne Williamson

Because of our youthful population, we suffer from unemployment in Iran. We need more universities and more job opportunities for the young. — Shirin Ebadi