Leta Sobierajski Quotes

#1. He considered his disposition as of the sort which must suffer heavily, uniting very strong feelings with quiet,serious, and retiring manners, and a decided taste for reading and sedentary pursuits.

Jane Austen

#2. Often kids in a computer lab learn about word-processing, but if they want to write an essay, they write it by hand. This is exactly the opposite of what you want them to learn. They're approaching the computer as just another abstract school subject.

Seymour Papert

#3. You are a Spirit, living in a body, who has a mind. You are a spiritual being having a human experience, not a human being having a spiritual experience.

Steve D'Annunzio

#4. You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being, of not gaining, of not arriving. Then there is great austerity, simplicity, and with it there is love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#5. If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt.

Jamie Oliver

#6. Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.

Douglas Coupland

#7. People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.

Dan Auerbach

#8. Our ultimate objective in learning about anything is to try to create and develop a more just society.

Yuri Kochiyama

#9. Waiting for that big miracle to happen can prevent us from recognizing the small ones that happen every day.

Charles F. Glassman

#10. The nice way to meet a guy is through getting to know them first. Then you can really judge their personality. What I can't take is meeting someone, going on a date, getting to know them, then finding out they're a complete psycho - 'Great, I've just wasted all this time on you!'

Katy B

#11. Among all the world's large creatures, the only survivors of the human flood will be humans themselves, and the farmyard animals that serve as galley slaves in Noah's Ark.

Yuval Noah Harari

#12. Has it ever occurred to you that married couples endure watching their spouses grow old and feeble and senile all the time? That it's part of marriage? A hard part, to be sure, but not so hard that one just gives up on the institution altogether.

Sabrina Jeffries

#13. The ice inside me melts. Suddenly, I'm burning up and terrified, scared I'll be too weak to resist.

Scratch that - I'm petrified I've already given in.

Amanda Bouchet

#14. For some people hope is all they have. Encourage them and don't take their hope away, for they will be left with nothing.

Robert Cheeke

#15. Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers.

David Parnas