Vrane Ic Duro 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

As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same. — Baron De Montesquieu

This isn't Twilight. I don't have to pick a guy. — Susan Mallery

Marcus, whose appreciation of wine began and ended with what color it was, nodded uncertainly. — Django Wexler

Don't learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade. — Sherry Argov

If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula development, study guides and other teaching materials. — John Henrik Clarke

The first stage of widowhood is paperwork. — Adriana Trigiani

Art is a serious matter — Umberto Eco

It is at the edge of excellence that genius awaits. — Matshona Dhliwayo

(On Ralph Waldo Emerson)I love all men who dive. Any fish can swim near the surface, but it takes a great whale to go down stairs five miles or more; and if he don't attain the bottom, why all the lead in Galena can't fashion the plummet that will. I'm not talking of Mr Emerson now -but of the whole corps of thought-divers, that have been diving and coming up again with bloodshot eyes since the world began. — Herman Melville

Photos tend to organize chaos, to define what we're doing here. It is essential that individuals' voices depict the world around us, as we are increasingly controlled by large institutions, large companies and large systems. — Martin Parr