Benjamin B. Dunlap quotes

Benjamin B. Dunlap quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“'Live each day as if it is your last,' said Mahatma Gandhi. 'Learn as if you'll live forever.' This is what I'm passionate about. It is precisely this. It is this inextinguishable, undaunted appetite for learning and experience, no matter how risible, no matter how esoteric, no matter how seditious it might seem.”
-- Benjamin B. Dunlap

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“We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
“What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique I had developed was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough.”
“I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.”
“All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.”
“In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range”
“You and I are just like a blade of grass sitting here; we are going to wither and die. "But the word of the Lord endures forever"”
“Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.”
“I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?”

Source : Adriana Trigiani (2010). “Viola in Reel Life”, p.36, Simon and Schuster
“I believe in striving for excellence. I sweat the big and small stuff! I do not apologize for this.”
“If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.”

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