Richard Dufour Quotes

#1. You have been counting rosary beads for an era
But the wandering of your mind does not halt
Forsake the beads in your hand
And start moving the beads of your heart.

Vikas Swarup

#2. One is always changing. I don't want to write the same book and I couldn't, because I'm a different person.

Nicole Krauss

#3. Screenplays are not writing. They're a fake form of writing. It's a lot of dialogue and very little atmosphere. Very little description. Very little character work. It's very dangerous. You'll never learn to write.

Ray Bradbury

#4. I suspect guys who say, "I just send out for a sandwich for lunch," as lazy men trying to impress me.

Jimmy Cannon

#5. I never really did years of movie-after-movie-after-movie but when you've got three toddlers in the house you're performing all day long, anyway, with puppet shows and stories - I act around the clock.

Julia Roberts

#6. One thing I have learned from many years of watching my father is that some people, the best ones, are motivated more by the chance to prove themselves than by a command to serve. It is the work itself that calls them onward, especially if they believe they are the only ones who can do it.

Rae Carson

#7. The fundamental purpose of school is learning, not teaching.

Richard DuFour

#8. If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you are now.

Cassandra Clare

#9. When you notice light seeping into your coffin, it's hard to go on pretending that you're still dead.

John Burdett

#10. Try not to wake up on fire.

Eugene Mirman

#11. Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

Walt Disney Company

#12. Vanity's really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall ... I don't need to be pretty anymore. I just am who I am.

Michael J. Fox

#13. Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.

Pope Benedict XVI

#14. I'm not afraid of the dark.
I am. Humor me.

Joss Stirling

#15. Learning always occurs in a context of taking action, and they value engagement and experience as the most effective strategies for deep learning.

Richard DuFour

#16. It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.

John Grogan