Regenbogenfisch Quotes & Sayings

The finding that rereading textbooks is often labor in vain ought to send a chill up the spines of educators and learners, because it's the number one study strategy of most people - including more than 80 percent of college students in some surveys - and is central in what we tell ourselves to do during the hours we dedicate to learning. Rereading has three strikes against it. It is time consuming. It doesn't result in durable memory. And it often involves a kind of unwitting self-deception, as growing familiarity with the text comes to feel like mastery of the content. — Peter C. Brown

My personal definition of confidence is to keep believing that the stars in the solar system are actually watching and applauding you. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

I know what nuns are, kind of. It's just I never saw one. I didn't know they looked like penguins. — Lesley Howarth

How did you get here, then?'
'We walked,' Maria said, 'hence the "dejected snowman" look we're all modelling. — Samantha Shannon

I didn't want to play tonight. There hadn't been any music in me all week. Just a sadness within. — Sara Fiorenzo

He who holds on to the Way seeks no excess. Since he lacks excess, he can grow old in no need to be renewed. — Laozi

The material's out there, a calm lake waiting for us to dive in. — Beverly Lowry

It doesnt matter how many people vote, only who counts them. — Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin

He was a newspaperman,' he said, 'but there's some people who should never leave Savannah. — Pete Dexter