#thing

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message. ↗

— Steve Irwin

#being #believe #education #educational #enthusiasm

You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else. While you're skipping rope, you have to be able to see something else. ↗

— John Irving

#dumb #else #imagine #know #minutes

And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you. ↗

— John Irving

#begin #connections #first #i #important

I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second. ↗

— John Irving

#already #been #debut #found #good

No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him. ↗

— John Irving

#adult #am #anything #could #cousin

There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep. ↗

— John Irving

#child #few #few things #real #real world

Sometimes altering your position is the right thing. Sometimes it's not. ↗

— LL Cool J

#position #right #right thing #sometimes #the right thing

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for. ↗

— Washington Irving

#always #being #fulfilled #fulfillment #good

The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes. ↗