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“Never feel dumb. Not knowing who or what is ignorance, which is no sin; ignorance is simply the measure of what you haven't got to yet.”
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
“Reading, as I have said elsewhere, is a full-contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional resources.”
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
“What's more, obsessing about winning is a loser's game: The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride is a lot more fun that way.”
― Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success
― Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success
“We all learn from each other when we read and discuss literature, and our readings change based on those discussions. I know mine do, in all sorts of ways. But that doesn't mean I abandon my own viewpoint, and neither should you.”
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
“The words of the author Samuel Beckett summarize the central message of this text: "Try again. Fail again. Fail better." In fact, I believe that this describes the ebb and flow of life itself-try again again, fail better. Failing doesn't make us a failure. But not tryin do better, to be better, does make us fools.”
― The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
― The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
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