Mary Hatwood Futrell Quotes

#1. No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

George Bernard Shaw

#2. My view of civilization is that there have always been small pockets of good, decent, kind people surrounded by corrupt and evil power structures. It's always a battle to stay on the side of good.

Nancy Farmer

#3. In college, I went to school for acting; we had to learn phonetics just to be able to do dialects and all that stuff. I'm somebody who does better just hearing it. I'll just imitate it, and I get it better that way. When I know too much information, I'm not great.

Eliza Coupe

#4. A garden is not a matter of life or death. It is far more important than that.

Elin Hilderbrand

#5. It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.

Katarina Witt

#6. I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon.

Tom Stoppard

#7. Education is worth little if it teaches only how to make a living rather than how to make a life.

Mary Hatwood Futrell

#8. Don't allow circumstance to hold you back- even negative ones. You don't have to let your circumstances define you. You can define yourself, and the best way to find yourself is through education.

Mary Hatwood Futrell

#9. You cannot choose a Guru. Deepen your longing and the Guru will choose you,

Jaggi Vasudev

#10. When the uncapped potential of a student meets the liberating art of a teacher, a miracle unfolds.

Mary Hatwood Futrell

#11. All I saw was one black cat, an insultingly paranoid type who shrank off as I drew near.

Anne Tyler