#time

The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued. ↗

— Thomas Kuhn

#becomes #clear #crises #feared #force

I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#burden #children #feel #grim #i

I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#bad time #because #been #child #children

I can only put myself in the process and try to learn through the process. Sometimes it will go well and sometimes it won't. ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

#i #i can #learn #myself #only

When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#circle #could #difficulty #even #first

It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and I've spoken with athletes who, for years afterward, have been tormented by the knowledge that, had they done something ever so slightly different, they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#athletes #beaten #been #could #different

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out. ↗

— Ninette de Valois

#carefully #everything #first #first of all #good

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play. ↗

— John Cleese

#enough #give #play #them #time

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless. ↗

— Bram Cohen

#mark #mature #out #pointless #programmer

There are always going to be times when it doesn't flow as much as you were hoping. So of course I'm going to fail. And when I do fail I hope I fail better and better, again and again. I am happy to fail. ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

#always #am #better #course #fail