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“Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.”
Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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“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
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“Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.”
Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Jun 30, 2010 
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“To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.”
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“To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.”
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“Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.”
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“Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.”
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“If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.”
Source : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.30, Courier Corporation
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“Tomer: “What's this?†Cabinet: “Wt's ths?†Wedge: “Cabinet.†Tomer: “I know it's a cabinet, but it's talking.†Cabinet: “...ts tlkng†Janson: “Oh that. It's the Catann Minister of Crawling Into Very Small Spaces.†Tycho: “He bet Wedge he could fold himself in the that cabinet, around the shelves and all.†Hobbie: “Never bet against Wedge. The Minister gets to stay in there until he admits that it was a stupid bet and that Wedge doesn't owe him anything.”
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“The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time. It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.”
Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel (2005). “The Sabbath”, p.22, Macmillan
