Ridwaan Shahid Quotes & Sayings

While the universities are increasingly corporatized and militarized, their governing structures are becoming more authoritarian, faculty are being devalued as public intellectuals, students are viewed as clients, academic fields are treated as economic domains for providing credentials, and work place skills, and academic freedom is under assault. — Henry Giroux

The systems perspective tells us that we must look beyond individual mistakes or bad luck to understand important problems. — Peter Senge

I reluctantly left the series because a) my age. I'm 68 tomorrow and time is very precious for me to spend time at home with my family and especially with the grandchildren. They're aged 7 and 5. After three years I became homesick for my home. — Richard Briers

Two things can make life meaningful: books and love ... I already have books. Now I am setting off in search of love. — Joel Dicker

He puts his shoes on, stomping into them, like he does everything, like he is hoping all the time he really cant do it and can quit trying to. — William Faulkner

He had never spoken to Uncle Richard, but he knew that he was a radiologist who put tubes into people's groins and pushed them up into their brains to clear blockages like chimney sweeps did and this was a glorious idea. — Mark Haddon

I want it to be a palace - only I don't think palaces are very luxurious. They're so big, so promiscuously public. A small house is the true luxury. A residence for two people only - for my wife and me. It won't be necessary to allow for a family, we don't intend to have children. Nor for visitors, we don't intend to entertain. — Ayn Rand

The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If you try in whatever ways you can to brighten someone's day, to be fair and respectful to everyone, and to grow your network without being "networky", you will be a rockstar. Have a plan, but be willing to deviate from it if awesome opportunities arise. While it's important to think about your future and what you want to be doing in 5 years, don't let that plan be so concrete that you ignore opportunities around you. — Jessica Hische

By bringing Little Sun to Tate Modern and the London Olympics, I hope to realise an art project for those who typically have no access to global events of this scale. — Olafur Eliasson

Family is a choice. — C.L.Stone

I think if I were asked to do as many as fifty takes, I would assume the director had no idea what he wanted, and was just hoping, eventually, to see it. — Ian McKellen

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. — Michael Jordan