John Dewey Quotes
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
Quotes to Explore
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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For everyday clothes, I love North Face and Rohan, and for smarter options, I like Whistles and Agnes b on Marylebone High Street.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
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As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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I think things will come once I get the respect that I deserve. Keeping my belt for a long time... Things will happen like normal. I can't force those things.
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Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.
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I have been struck by the pervasive frequency of pompously patriotic ads for the defense industry, usually accompanied by deferential salutations to our men and women who are heroically sacrificing their lives in our defense. Do we really need all of that for our security?
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There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.
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Nothing replaces being in the same room, face-to-face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions.
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Yoga is the rule book for playing the game of Life, but in this game no one needs to lose. It is tough, and you need to train hard. It requires the willingness to think for yourself, to observe and correct, and to surmount occasional setbacks. It demands honesty, sustained application, and above all love in your heart.
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One of the powers of a sit-in is its visibility and potential to mobilize public opinion; the way the protest is reported in the media can have a powerful influence over its eventual success or failure.
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At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.
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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
