3 December 2020 Thad Cochran Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students’ math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.
3 December 2020 Garrett Hardin Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
3 December 2020 Tony Kushner Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
3 December 2020 JoJo I’m lucky to have a great support system in my friends and some of my family. If you have those people that you trust, go ahead and fall back into them and let them be your hammock and cocoon and let them embrace you.
3 December 2020 Merritt Wever I used to joke that if acting didn’t work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.
3 December 2020 William James Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
3 December 2020 R. Lee Ermey I don’t have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
3 December 2020 Ginnifer Goodwin But I love being scared. I think you’re brave only when you do things that scare you. I’ve always used fear as a motivator. I’m not sure why.
3 December 2020 Ivan Pavlov From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands.
3 December 2020 Alan Watts The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
3 December 2020 Bob Ehrlich We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.
3 December 2020 Sara Teasdale When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange – my youth.
3 December 2020 Richard Nelson Bolles I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you’ve lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.
3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
3 December 2020 Janis Ian At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life’s all about.
3 December 2020 Dan Auerbach Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents’ music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.
3 December 2020 Joel McHale My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That’s a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame.
3 December 2020 Bruce Barton The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
3 December 2020 Tony Visconti Today’s recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.
3 December 2020 Walt Whitman The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
3 December 2020 Carl Lewis To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don’t really think me as a long jumper, although that’s the event I had more success in.
3 December 2020 Anais Nin Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
3 December 2020 Agnes Obel I don’t have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.
3 December 2020 Alvin Adams Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear.
