Quotes About Inspiration
The writers we absorb when we're young bind us to them, sometimes lightly, sometimes with iron. In time, the bonds fall away, but if you look very closely you can sometimes make out the pale white groove of a faded scar, or the telltale chalky red of old rust.
~ Daniel Mendelsohn
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beauty and pleasure are at the center of teaching. For the best teacher is the one who wants you to find meaning in the things that have given him pleasure, too, so that the appreciation of their beauty will outlive him. In this way—because it arises from an acceptance of the inevitability of death—good teaching is like good parenting.
~ Daniel Mendelsohn
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There wasn't a single teetotaler "among the world's really great men," Stoll wrote; on the contrary, he said, the roster of wine-loving giants ran from Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Columbus, Dickens, Lincoln, and Bismarck, not to mention Verdi, Wagner, and Admiral Dewey.
~ Daniel Okrent
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Ten thousand grateful people jammed Sunday's enormous tabernacle to hear him announce the death of liquor and reveal the advent of an earthly paradise. "The reign of tears is over," Sunday proclaimed. "The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into storehouses and corncribs. Men will walk upright now, women will smile, and the children will laugh. Hell will be forever for rent.
~ Daniel Okrent
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Mais c'est comme ça, la vie : si vous rencontrez un être humain dans la foule, suivez-le... suivez-le.
~ Daniel Pennac
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Que l'écolier, de temps à autre, rencontre un professeur dont l'enthousiasme semble considérer les mathématiques en elles-mêmes, qui les enseigne comme un des Beaux-Arts, qui les fait aimer par la vertu de sa propre vitalité, grâce à qui l'effort devienne un plaisir, cela tient au hasard de la rencontre, pas au génie de l'Institution. (p.89)
~ Daniel Pennac
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Não se esforça a curiosidade, desperta-se
~ Daniel Pennac
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The children became their reciprocal angels: readers.
~ Daniel Pennac
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Un libro ben scelto ti salva da qualsiasi cosa, persino da te stesso.
~ Daniel Pennac
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Si immagini da qualche parte in un romanzo, questo la aiuterà a lottare contro la paura.
~ Daniel Pennac
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Insegnare è proprio questo: ricominciare fino a scomparire come professori. Se non riusciamo a collocare i nostri studenti nell'indicativo presente della nostra lezione, se il nostro sapere e il piacere di servirsene non attecchiscono su quei ragazzini e quelle ragazzine, nel senso botanico del termine, la loro esistenza vacillerà sopra vuoti infiniti.
~ Daniel Pennac
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La nostra voce è la musica che fa il vento quando ci attraversa il corpo (be', quando non esce da sotto).
~ Daniel Pennac
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Quando la vita è quello che è, il romanzo ha il dovere di essere quello che vuole.
~ Daniel Pennac
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Ce n'était pas seulement leur savoir que ces professeurs partageaient avec nous, c'était le désir même du savoir ! (p. 262)
~ Daniel Pennac
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Ma è così la vita: se incontri un essere umano nella folla, seguilo... seguilo.
~ Daniel Pennac
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Leggere, si impara a scuola. Quanto ad amare leggere...
~ Daniel Pennac
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Che l'allievo di tanto in tanto incontri un professore pieno di entusiasmo che sembra considerare la matematica per se stessa, e la insegna come una delle Belle Arti e la fa amare in virtù della sua personale vitalità, e grazie al quale lo sforzo diventa un piacere, questo dipende dalla casualità dell'incontro, non dalla genialità dell'Istituzione.
~ Daniel Pennac
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Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us.
~ Daniel Pinchbeck
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find what drives us
~ Daniel Pink
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You are not going to find the meaning of life hidden under a rock written by someone else. You'll find it by giving meaning to life from inside yourself
~ Daniel Pink
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Eat pudding. Books are good. Eat pudding. If kids read a lot. Eat pudding. They'll get so they can think clearly. Eat pudding. And if enough kids read and think. Eat pudding. We will have world peace. Eat pudding. Thank you very much. Eat pudding.
~ Daniel Pinkwater
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I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art.
~ Daniel Pinkwater
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But charisma only wins people's attention. Once you have their attention, you have to have something to tell them.
~ Daniel Quinn
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My inspiration is art... because without art, we would just be stuck with reality.
~ Daniel R. Lynch
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