Daniel T Willingham Quotes

#1. Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and darker stairs, where blue is darkened on blueness even where Persephone goes, just now, from the frosted September to the sightless realm where darkness is awake upon the dark.

D.H. Lawrence

#2. Alas, for our foolish human nature! Its fond mistakes are persistent. The dictates of reason take a long time to assert their sway.

Rabindranath Tagore

#3. Hip-hop is a reflection of your surroundings and an instrument of change. - Esme from Sister Mischief

Laura Goode

#4. We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

Samuel Goldwyn

#5. Beastly of him to die before you realized he might be fascinating.

Tasha Alexander

#6. And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one.

Eyvind Johnson

#7. Memory is the residue of thought

Daniel T. Willingham

#8. In establishing democracy, we have to be sensitive to the regional and national context. Democracy also means to guarantee the rights of the minorities. That's my job as a king. We have for example a Jewish ambassador in the US and a Christian in the UK.

Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

#9. People are naturally curious, but we are not naturally good thinkers; unless the cognitive conditions are right, we will avoid thinking.

Daniel T. Willingham