There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
ROBERT FROSTEducation is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
More Robert Frost Quotes
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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.
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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.
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Earth’s the right place for love. I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.
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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
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The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.
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The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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What is done is done for the love of it – or not really done at all.
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College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
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Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
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Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
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One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.
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I’d just as soon play tennis with the net down.
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Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
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