Donald Norman Quotes
Sure, one can always get the students to relax and be happy - entertained, but although being laid back and relax can also lead to creativity, mostly it means that nothing much gets done.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.
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I do get approached occasionally, but not a ton. I'm unrecognizable because I'm coated in cat hair and sweat. And there's a sort of yeti quality to my presence... so I don't think that people can see the face.
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Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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If studying the periodic table taught me nothing else, it's that the credulity of human beings for periodic table panaceas is pretty much boundless.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.
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I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.
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I was somewhat of a mute at school, so people were quite scared!
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It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.
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The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record.
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Sure, one can always get the students to relax and be happy - entertained, but although being laid back and relax can also lead to creativity, mostly it means that nothing much gets done.
