Sarah Eckert
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Sarah Eckert
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The house loomed over them like a great, quiet gargoyle. It might have been foreboding, evoking images of ghosts and haunted places, if it had not seemed so tired, slats missing from a couple of shutters, the ebony porch groaning as they made their way up the steps to the door, which came complete with a silver knocker shaped like a fist dangling
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At eight-thirty the eggs were shrivelled and the toast was like stone. An aluminium wedge scraped them into the sink, where hot water whirled them down a metal throat which digested and flushed them away to the distant sea.
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The setting is a character. I like personification here: the sink/garbage disposal being compared to a digestive system.
I assert that a person becomes an autodidact when he assumes total responsibility for his own learning and the primary drive to know comes from within and not as a result of others' expectations.
Self University by Charles D. Hayes - PDFCOFFEE.COM
Radical Curiosity is the greatest expression of what it means to be an entrepreneur, a futurist, and a leader: willing to raise the bar of our ambitions and expectations. It is an antidote to the apathy that leaves us content with how things are and emboldens us to ask what they might become.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
The house shuddered, oak bone on bone, its bared skeleton cringing from the heat, its wire, its nerves revealed as if a surgeon had torn the skin off to let the red veins and capillaries quiver in the scalded air. Help, help! Fire! Run, run! Heat snapped mirrors like the first brittle winter ice. And the voices wailed. Fire, fire, run, run, like a... See more
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Self-education is a purposeful endeavor in which we are aware of the perceptual process and its effect on our judgment. We discipline ourselves to favor objectivity regardless of the nature of inquiry, especially when the answers we seek reveal results with which we are uncomfortable. Self-education is a perpetual process in which a left step of... See more