Daniel T. Willingham Quotes
Whether you struggle to remember a client's name, aspire to learn a new language, or are a student battling to prepare for the next test, this book is a must. I know of no other source that pulls together so much of what we know about the science of memory and couples it with practical, practicable advice.
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I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.
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Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.
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I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
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That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.
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It's all matchups, and I knew that I matched up well against 'Rumble' Johnson.
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The whole 'studly womaniser' thing, I mean, I quite enjoy the title - it's just not very accurate.
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A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. But it is unbecoming in an artist to talk about inspiration; that is the reader's business.
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Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.
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I have done some wonderful television, but you know, there's not as much exceptional material as there is in the theatre. So I do a lot of theatre, but really, as with most actors, I just love going from one to another. It's stimulating, it's diverting, it's a different way of life, and you know, I dearly like a good mix.
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A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle.
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It's easy to be cynical about American politics. It's more important not to be.
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The too-big-to-fail reform project is massive in scope. In my view, it holds real promise. But the project will take years to complete. Success is not assured.
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When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
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What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.
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The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.
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...because when beauty awes you, you must halt and try to catch your breath and your staggered heart.
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I played on three of Bob Dylan's albums. I have very pleasant memories, especially the Nashville Skyline album was a real fun album to do. He was in a great mood. He was glad to be in Nashville, where the musicians were very laid back and very creative. We had a lot of fun doing that album.
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I took William Zinsser's advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like you.
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Whether you struggle to remember a client's name, aspire to learn a new language, or are a student battling to prepare for the next test, this book is a must. I know of no other source that pulls together so much of what we know about the science of memory and couples it with practical, practicable advice.
