Perttula Idaho Quotes & Sayings

From the age of 8, I was running media campaigns on global issues back home in Australia. I was ever so slightly precocious. I would meet with senior Australian government officials, including the prime minister and foreign minister, proposing various solutions to third-world debt and malnutrition. — Jeremy Heimans

The premium so often put in schools upon external "discipline," and upon marks and rewards, upon promotion and keeping back, are the obverse of the lack of attention given to life situations in which the meaning of facts, ideas, principles, and problems is vitally brought home. — John Dewey

If you pile up too many tomorrows, you'll end up with a lot of empty yesterdays. — Elia Gourgouris

But that's always the way, isn't it? It's easy to be sensible for other people, but you can't always be sensible for yourself. — Alex Shearer

We commonly do not remember that it is ... always the first person that is speaking. — Henry David Thoreau

You want to be a hero. That is why you do such silly things. — Romain Rolland

Never question the beauty of what you are saying because someone reacts with pain, judgment, criticism. It just means they have not heard you. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

I realized that my friends in the ashram needed to be celibate because, for them, sexuality was a very tacky issue. — Frederick Lenz

You cannot by any chance fail if you persevere. — Anthony Bennett

Smile and nod, always wins the argument. — Pontius Joseph

I loved the time spent with him, but felt in some other chamber of my heart that it was time wasted. That I ought to be doing something else while there was time. — Barbara Kingsolver

Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and peace and plenty, and that the lion will lie down with the lamb and everybody will believe anybody. — Gertrude Stein

I like setting up problems for the viewer, like how do you visually deal with a ring when what's usually in the center of a painting is very important? It's like the main course isn't there and you're having to deal with everything around what would normally be the main course. — Robert Mangold

I had become an atheist at the age of thirteen, when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan. — Paul Krassner

If you agree that the person you were few years ago will take advice from the person you are now, you have made a clear progress in life. — Dhaval Gajera