Terry H. Anderson quotes

“If you're going to spend a long time locked in somebody's basement, take a professor with you.”
-- Terry H. Anderson

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“Science could not fill the hole in my soul.”
-- Terry H. Anderson

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“People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is when you have choices.”
-- Terry H. Anderson

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“If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.”

“Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

“It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”

Source : Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Community School Dist. (1969)

“If a Coach is determined to stay in the coaching profession, he will develop from year to year. This much is true, no coach has a monopoly on the knowledge of basketball. There are no secrets in the game. The only secrets, if there are any, are good teaching of sound fundamentals, intelligent handling of men, a sound system of play, and the ability to instill in the boys a desire to win.”

“Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.”

“Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.”

Source : "Satires". Book by Juvenal, edited by A. E. Housman, p. XI, 1931.

“The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.”

“People should be left to believe what they like, so long as they harm no one else. Apart from normal expectations of politeness, it is not however clear why people should require their personal beliefs to be treated with special sensitivity by others, to the point that if others fail to tip-toe respectfully around them they will start throwing bombs.”

Source : A. C. Grayling (2004). “Life, Sex and Ideas: The Good Life Without God”, p.130, Oxford University Press, USA

“It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.”

“It's been so long and I'm lost without you, what am I gonna do? I been needin' you, wantin' you, wonderin' if you're the same and who's been with you. Is your heart still mine? I wanna cry sometimes ... I miss you.”