#about

Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#care #college #get #go #impact

In secondary school I was floating - I wasn't passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless because the competitiveness was too much to bear. ↗

— Andrew Garfield

#anything #bear #because #competitiveness #did

There's nothing pretty about ice. Ice grows nothing. But we've got this in our minds that we've got to make everything cold. ↗

— Don Young

#cold #everything #got #grows #ice

I wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served about ten years in the Canadian Navy as what we call a combat systems engineer. ↗

— Marc Garneau

#back #call #came #canadian #combat

Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions. ↗

— Helen Garner

#arrive #book #decisions #felt #how

When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#bedroom #deep #electricity #i #jersey

Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean, because I'm established enough now as a writer to get a reasonable advance if I wanted to do fiction. ↗

— Helen Garner

#advance #because #crossroads #enough #established

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves. ↗

— Helen Garner

#almost #calm #happened #life #lot

I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can't worry about it too much. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#aging #better #getting #getting better #i

I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#anymore #does #everyone #fantasy #hard