#isi

I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies. ↗

— Ted Turner

#fortune #good #good fortune #had #i

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see. ↗

— Henry Adams

#perception #senses #sight #unity #vision

If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#teaching #television #education

Without action, a vision is just a piece of paper. In education, we have lots of paper. ↗

— William Sterrett

#leadership #paper #vision #education

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#images #mass-media #reflection #symbols #television

…he noticed that the free thinkers, the doctrinaires of the bourgeoisie, people who claimed every liberty that they might stifle the opinions of others, were greedy and shameless puritans whom, in education, he esteemed inferior to the corner shoemaker. ↗

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

#intellegentsia #education

Television has greater power over the lives of most Americans than any educational system, government, or church. ↗

— Kent Hughes

#education

I just... I understand you might want to start dating more seriously, and that means dating someone from town. But if you're going to do that..." This time he took a long drink of coffee, and the mug was still at his lips when he said, "I like Daniel. He takes care of you." I blinked. "Oh my God. Did you really just say that? He takes care of me?" Dad flushed. "I didn't mean it like-" "Takes care of me? Did I go to sleep and wake up in the nineteenth century?" I looked down at my jeans and T-shirt. "Ack! I can't go to school like this. Where's my corset? My bonnet? ↗

— Kelley Armstrong

#humor #kelley-armstrong #the-gathering #dating

When faced with two equally tough choices, most people choose the third choice: to not choose.
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— Jarod Kintz

#challenge #choices #decisions #hard #life

Kaitlyn is that kind of girl that might be too interesting, might tempt you to get involved... A girl who challenged him, who could be my equal... Her mind was a place of blue pools and blazing meteors... She stood slim and proud as some medival witch princess against dawn." -Gabriel ↗

— L.J. Smith

#the-passion #equality