Value Driven Transcendence Quotes & Sayings

A wise man lights a candle while fools are busy cursing the darkness — Seth Czerepak

I want to keep my private life private. — Cathy Freeman

Sir Ken Robinson's 2008 talk on educational reform - entitled "Do Schools Kill Creativity?" - has now been viewed more than 4 million times. In it Robinson cites the fact that children's scores on standard tests of creativity decline as they grow older and advance through the educational system. He concludes that children start out as curious, creative individuals but are made duller by factory-style schools that spend too much time teaching children academic facts and not enough helping them express themselves. Sir Ken clearly cares greatly about the well-being of children, and he is a superb storyteller, but his arguments about creativity, though beguilingly made, are almost entirely baseless. — Ian Leslie

Sustainable success can only happen on purpose — Seth Czerepak

Perchance to dream
"What are you doing here, Ariel? I would have thought you'd be halfway to Timbuktu."
- lisa mantchev perchance to dream — Lisa Mantchev

Universal opinions are often mistaken for universal principles — Seth Czerepak

I have never understood why so many gardeners favour straight lines and narrow, regulated borders; perhaps they think wildness could work only in a larger space. — John Burnside

We're not doing outrageous fashion; I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears. — Calvin Klein

The quirky little melodrama that unfolded in Bosnia on 28 June 1914 played the same role in the history of the world as might a wasp sting on a chronically ailing man who is maddened into abandoning a sickbed to devote his waning days to destroying the nest — Max Hastings

But since C had disappeared, the fantasies that obsessed me were all the worst things I could imagine at any given time. — Alexandra Kleeman