Schackmann Quotes & Sayings

I think I wanted to see how complicated things happen," West said years later. "There's some notion of control, it seems to me, that you can derive in a world full of confusion if you at least understand how things get put together. Even if you can't under stand every little part, how infernal machines get put together. — Tracy Kidder

My mother always used to say, 'Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God' - that's what she always said. The same God with different names. — Jane Goodall

We will discover nothing if we bind ourselves to accepted wisdoms. Questioning is necessary for discovery. — Ros Barber

The child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future. — Maria Montessori

When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines. — Mason Cooley

While mistakes may be local, in today's connected world embarrassment is global — Gyan Nagpal

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open. — Pauline Kael

There comes a time when something changes you ... No matter the impact ... Where the world no longer beats in time with you. You no longer feel amongst the fray.. And the feeling of loneliness is a brandished armor you wear the rest of your life. — Solange Nicole

The man who is receiving the money is getting rich and the guy who is giving the money is getting poorer — Sunday Adelaja