Success is shown to us as a straight line, heading in one direction, up. There are no detours, no turn-arounds, no missteps allowed.... When you aren’t allowed to fail, either due to the expectations of others or yourself, although it may seem like you are being pragmatic and focusing on how to succeed, you are actually making it that much harder for yourself. Geetanjali Mukherjee
I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. <span style="margin:15px;...
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Neil Gaiman
Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love–you know, things I don't care about anymore.
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Lady Gaga
I'm the girl nobody knows until she commits suicide. Then suddenly everyone had a class with her.
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Tom Leveen
The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
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Tom Bodett
Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple.
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George Carlin
More Quotes By Geetanjali Mukherjee
Start anywhere, with whatever is in front of you. The key is to begin - and to trust that as long as you’re putting one foot in front of the other, eventually you'll get to where you need to, or at the very least, much...
The true lessons to be learned from Albert Speer are those that help us to recognize the Albert Speers living amongst us.
The real tragedy was not that Speer chose to side with the Nazis, but that he did not care which side he was on, as long as he benefited from it.
Maybe it doesn’t matter how smart you are or aren’t, but how much you are willing to learn.
Success is shown to us as a straight line, heading in one direction, up. There are no detours, no turn-arounds, no missteps allowed.... When you aren’t allowed to fail, either due to the expectations of others or yourself, although it may seem like you are...
