Rebecca Skloot Quotes

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Rebecca Skloot

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• For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Great
  • Effort
  • Miracles

• I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.

  

  J. Cole
  • Different
  • Best
  • Like

• I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • People
  • Up
  • Outsider

• What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.

  

  Ben Nicholson
  • Bad
  • I Feel
  • Published

• Today's children need more years of education than we are offering. And they need more daily hours of instruction than we are providing. They are ready to learn long before kindergarten, and on the other end of the spectrum, all of them must have access to advanced education for years after they graduate from high school.

  

  Janet Napolitano
  • Children
  • Education
  • Instruction

• If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Way
  • Allowed
  • Commenced

• I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

  

  William James
  • Life
  • Real
  • Character

• The leader is a teacher who succeeds without taking credit. And, because credit is not taken, credit is received.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Teacher
  • Leader
  • Credit

• Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Humanity
  • Adversity
  • Tolerate

• Let's leave no words unspoken and save regrets for the broken.

  

  Jeremy McKinnon A Day to Remember
  • Words
  • Broken
  • Regrets

• Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Knowledge
  • Drawing
  • Means

• I have been feeding pigeons, thousands of them for years. But there was one, a beautiful bird, pure white with light grey tips on its wings; that one was different. It was a female. I had only to wish and call her and she would come flying to me. I loved that pigeon as a man loves a women, and she loved me. As long as I had her, there was a purpose to my life.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Love
  • Purpose
  • Bird

• To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Power
  • Change
  • Action

• The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed, stupid, puritanical, hypocritical, prejudiced, fanatical, cocoa-blooded atavists, who soothe their inferiority complex by barking their hatred of anything new.

  

  Gertrude Atherton
  • Free
  • United States
  • Prejudiced

• Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death.

  

  Neil Postman
  • People
  • Business
  • Politics

• We have transformed our colleges from places of higher learning into places for the technical training of poorly prepared young men and women who need a degree to get a job in a college-crazy society.

  

  Eugene Genovese
  • Job
  • Learning
  • Training

• Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal.

  

  Rebecca Skloot
  • Immortal
  • Transformed
  • Genetic