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Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others. ↗

— Charles William Eliot

#cannot #choking #commandment #develop #development

I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits. ↗

— David James Elliott

#any #bad #bad habits #benefit #develop

But someone sometime let you forget how to choose, and what. Someone let your peoples forget it was the only thing of importance, choosing. . . How to choose any but a child's greedy choices if there is no loving-filled father to guide, inform, teach the person how to choose? How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose? ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#choosing #freedom

Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#bang #chords #five #going #idiot

Everything in high school seems like the most important thing that's ever happened in your life. It's not. You'll get out of high school and you never see those people again. All the people who torment and press you won't make a difference in your life in the long haul. ↗

— Mark Hoppus

#difference #ever #everything #get #happened

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing. ↗

— Ethan Embry

#being #day #everybody #exactly #get

Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#dropped #due #eight #financial #formal

The truth is that this was something over which I had no control and the question is not why but what. What am I going to do with this? What am I going to make of it? ↗

— Vicki Forman

#control #life #life

It was as if the main screw in his head, which held his whole life together, had become stripped. The screw would not go in, would not come out, but turned in the same groove without catching hold, and it was impossible to stop turning it. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#psychology #life

The government gets it right on Head Start. We are providing opportunities for children in underserved areas where parents may not be able to afford preschool so they can begin their schooling with a running or Head Start. ↗

— Bob Filner

#afford #areas #begin #children #gets