Seidelmann 25 Quotes & Sayings

I've gone up for loads of jobs in the past that I knew were going to be terrible, and I've done my best, and I still haven't got them. So I think I've been lucky in who's decided I'd be worthy of their time. — Chris O'Dowd

The world had gone horribly, completely wrong and the only way open to them was to keep walking forwards. — Moira Katson

It all came down to entitlement, and one's sense of it. Marina, feeling entitled, never really asked herself if she was good enough. Whereas he, Julius, asked himself repeatedly, answered always in the affirmative, and marveled at the wider world's apparent inability to see the light. he would have to show them - of this he was ever more decided, with a flamelike conviction. But he was already thirty, and the question was how? — Claire Messud

It's difficult on a ship to get away from your job because that accommodation house, which is where seafarers live, is their workplace, it's where they live, it's where they relax, it's everything, and it's just hard to get away. And seafarers often refer to their job as being in prison with a salary. — Rose George

What is important is the moment of opening a life and feeling it touch
with an electric hiss and cry
this speckled mineral sphere, our present world. — Annie Dillard

When creativity is the goal, schools must have their own platforms to network and innovate. — Andy Hargreaves

The problem is not the content of textbooks, but the very idea of them. — Sam Wineburg

Ideas are easy to come by, they spring effortlessly out of the vacuity of the mind and cost nothing. When they are held and projected onto one's self or others they become a project. When the project is enacted it becomes the work, and when the work is completed it appears to be self-existent. Creation is the process of form manifesting from emptiness, where that which arises from the mind comes into existence. Yet the distance between conception and realisation may be enormous, as vast as the distance between the stars. — Robert Beer

Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing. — Thomas Tusser

Young ladies don't understand political economy, you know, said Mr. Brooke, — George Eliot

His legacy, if there is one, is that I try to do my best to see people whole, for who they are and what they've been through. especially those who matters to me — Richard North Patterson

At any time in history, gazillions of lives are being lived simultaneously. In Zimbabwe, Thailand, Tasmania, and Borneo, in the poorest hovel and the richest palace, in the sky and on the moon, the lives of ants, plants, gorillas, and people are going on. But we are generally fixated on that infinitesimal thing in the scope of the universe, ourselves. — Kelly Easton

There was something nice about a man who was absorbed by a good book. — Maya Rodale

Nobody knows what goes on in other families, because families lie about themselves to other people. Not only to other people but to one another. And to themselves. — Elizabeth Berg