#is

I learn the most from making my own mistakes. ↗

— David Fincher

#learn #making #mistakes #most #my own

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work." (Claiming an Education, 1977) ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#empowerment #feminism #independent-thought #responsibility #self-determination

That is what I always tell service clubs: If you hear of somebody who is very young and talented, pick them up and give them that little assistance to make sure that they get to the professional stage. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

#assistance #clubs #get #give #hear

Our motto is whenever you make a mistake, do it twice. ↗

— Neil Finn

#mistake #motto #our #twice #whenever

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them. ↗

— Thomas More

#manners #politics #punishment #scapegoats #thieves

In addition, we were unable to meet openly to discuss the progress of the book, for we were both on the list of persons banned from communicating with other banned persons. ↗

— Ruth First

#banned #book #both #communicating #discuss

One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor. ↗

— Colin Firth

#age #become #better #changed #course

Whatever labels may be attached to the fifteen charges brought against me, they all arise from my having been a member of the Communist Party and from my activities as a member. ↗

— Bram Fischer

#against #arise #attached #been #brought

I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments. ↗

— Edmond H. Fischer

#enjoy #here #i #luck #most

Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the classroom if the point of introducing it is to recruit your students for the political agenda it may be thought to imply. ↗

— Stanley Fish

#any #belongs #brought #classroom #forth