Each day is a new chance to improve your life, and that of your family, friends and colleagues. Be positive in your outlook, honest in your dealing and determined in your efforts. You will succeed
Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.
I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid I'll never get a chance to live!
I don't need to travel back in time to cause trouble. back through time finds me trouble enough!
And if I am further pressed to declare straightforwardly whether I mean to disparage these authorities [who criticize Ibsen], I reply, pointedly, that I do. I affirm that such criticisms are written by men who know as much of political life as I know...
I felt the human disease that is ignorance suddenly leave my body. Just like that. Like a hot, desperate piss after a long car ride.
The only way to find out if you're immortal is to make it to the end of time and look around to see if you're still alive. Until you've done that, all you know is that you haven't died yet.
Even paradise had its serpent.
Theories without data are like daydreams.
When I noticed other people, I wondered what it was like to be alive. They did not know, could not know, how I felt inside. My shell still passed for normal. I felt like I should scream for help, someone should help, but I knew that the time for scre...
My training makes me uneasy with a happy mystery.
One reason we're not winning the fight against depression is that our available treatments leave so many in partial recovery limbo.
Though I learned little in my compromised state, I learned enough to make a decision: I was going to understand how mood could overwhelm. I was going to understand depression or die trying.
You know what you have to do, you just can't do it", Sara says wearily. "It's like you have bricks on your feet.
Just as a stressful life can make you depressed, continuing exposure to stressors maintains depression.
Depressed people don't end up lying in bed because they are undercommitted to goals. They end up lying in bed because they are overcommitted to goals that are failing.
To act as though we have hope is to keep hope alive
It was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline that good soldier should dread his own officers far more than the enemy
Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.
When you do the math and examine how much energy is produced per atomic union, you find that fusing anything to iron’s twenty-six protons costs energy. That means post-ferric fusion* does an energy-hungry star no good. Iron is the final peal of a s...
A complaint is a unique opportunity to strengthen the relationship with the client.
