One of the many drawbacks of this "I teach what I am" approach is that it stifles classroom discussion. Any disagreement with the professor's expertise comes off as an ad hominem attack.
Enjoy every step you take. If you're curious, there is always something new to be discovered in the backdrop of your daily life.
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Roy T. Bennett
Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love; a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what it is all about, to go search for a pattern of meaning, to burn one's bridges because you're never going to go back...
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Saul D. Alinsky
What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.
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Laurence Sterne
... what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
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Norton Juster
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
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Albert Einstein
More Quotes By Maureen Corrigan
It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.
The danger in reviewing and teaching literature for a living (is) you can develop a kind of knee-jerk superiority to the material you're "decoding
I think the influence of books is neither direct and more predictable. Books themselves are too unruly, and so are readers.
The child who gets lost in a book can emerge from the experience a changeling.
Luckily, my job demands constant reading, otherwise I'd have to figure out some other excuse.