I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
JOHN STEINBECKAnd now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
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Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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