“Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency, emotional reserves, sensory gifts, and life experience, they can't really predict success, let alone satisfaction.”
― An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain
― An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain
“True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.”
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“If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.”
― West with the Night
― West with the Night
“The world is only tolerable because of the empty places in it...when the world's filled up, we'll have to get hold of a star. Any star. Venus, or Mars. Get hold of it and leave it empty. Man needs an empty space somewhere for his spirit to rest in.”
― Going Home
― Going Home
“The sky is so close to the sea that it is difficult to tell which is reflected in the other, which one needs the other, which one is dominating the other.”
― Day
― Day
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