Derderian Academy Quotes

#1. This same system could condemn injustice, but instead it chooses to condemn something as simple and fundamental as the search for the second half. We are all born wanting this. Why does it matter what shape this second half takes, provided it is the thing both sides seek?

Martha Brockenbrough

#2. The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#3. I like the stories with the historical themes.

Sarah Sutton

#4. His wife, rather irritatingly, raised an eyebrow, as if she could no longer be bothered to make an adequate response to his observations.

Jojo Moyes

#5. There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. My friends and I sometimes laugh at each other that there is so much maintenance of a body. I paid no attention when I was younger.

Lynne Tillman

#7. Maybe I'll buy a camera and videotape myself 'a la Paranormal Activity style. Then I'll be able to watch myself sleepwalking and getting up to make pancakes and then standing over Midnight dangling a peice of bacon.

Travis Thrasher

#8. There are no mistakes in life,
only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only
opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of selfmastery.
From struggle comes strength. Even pain can be a wonderful teacher

Robin S. Sharma

#9. It's near impossible to always be right when you're innovating. It's easy to get emotionally invested in it, but you need to monitor its impact like a hawk and react if you don't like what you see. And if/when you pull it back, you want to do that communication with transparency and humility.

Jeff Jordan

#10. When one has suspected a thing for weeks, why is being confronted with stark evidence so much worse?

Teresa Grant