Michael Gruber famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked.
-- Michael Gruber

#Teacher #People #Owing
The problem with evil people is that they can see only evil in others. It is one of the worst curses of being evil, that you can no longer experience good.
-- Michael Gruber

#Evil #People #Problem
It's part of what we call the Shadow, all the dark parts of us we can't face. It's the thing that, if we don't deal with it, eventually poisons our lives.
-- Michael Gruber

#Dark #Shadow #Faces
But there's the paradox of fiction - why do you cry when a fake character dies? It's the basis of art. You engage with people who don't exist and care about them as you would your friends and relatives.
-- Michael Gruber

#Art #Character #People
As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.
-- Michael Gruber

#Childhood #Matter #Facts
Does it matter, when you read, if the person who wrote still lives?
-- Michael Gruber

#Does It Matter #Stills #Still Life
The Book of Air and Shadows' was born during a conference with an intellectual property lawyer on a particular afternoon in November of 2003.
-- Michael Gruber

#Book #Air #Intellectual

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
Each individual creature on this beautiful planet is created by God to fulfil a particular role. Whatever I have achieved in life is through His help and an expression of His will. He showered His grace on me through some outstanding teachers and colleagues and when I pay my tributes to these fine persons, I am merely praising His glory. We are all born with a divine fire in us.
There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
When teachers doubt your potential, show them how wrong they truly are.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
All I worried about was what Owings was doing to me, instead of what I was doing to him. When you start worrying about that stuff, you're going down the wrong path.
A beam of luminous hydrogen canal rays has, owing to its velocity, exactly the same direction as that of the electric field in which it may be made to move.
Perhaps bacteria may tentatively be regarded as biochemical experiments; owing to their relatively small size and rapid growth, variations must arise much more frequently than in more differentiated forms of life, and they can in addition afford to occupy more precarious positions in natural economy than larger organisms with more exacting requirements.
Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.
Scepticism is an ability, or mental attitude, which opposes appearances to judgments in any way whatsoever, with the result that,owing to the equipollence of the objects and reasons thus opposed we are brought firstly to a state of mental suspense and next to a state of "unperturbedness" or quietude.

Michael Gruber famous quotes

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