It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.
("The Phantom Tollbooth")
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In this box are all the words I know…Most of them you will never need, some you will use constantly, but with them you may ask all the questions which have never been answered and answer all the questions which have never been asked. All the great books of the past and all the ones yet to come are made with these words. With them there is no obstacle you cannot overcome. All you must learn to do is to use them well and in the right places.Norton Juster
There are no wrong roads to anywhere.
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But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance.
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Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.
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I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting.
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One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times.
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