Today's Words of Wisdom - October 20, 2015

Today is the birthday of the following people:

John Dewey (1859 – 1952):

“Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not preparation for life but is life itself.”

and

“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”

and

“Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.”

and

“We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.”

Robert Pinsky (1940 - ):

“A sentence is like a tune. A memorable sentence gives its emotion a melodic shape. You want to hear it again, say it—in a way, to hum it to yourself. You desire, if only in the sound studio of your imagination, to repeat the physical experience of that sentence. That craving, emotional and intellectual but beginning in the body with a certain gesture of sound, is near the heart of poetry.”

Viggo Mortensen (1958 -  ):

“You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.”

and

“Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.”

Snoop Dogg (Lion) (1971 - ):

"It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs... we should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics."

Arthur Rimbaud (1854 – 1891):

“I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.”

and

“Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.”

Bela Lugosi (1882 – 1956):

“The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.”

and

“I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.”

Jean-Pierre Melville (1917 – 1973):

“There is no solitude greater than the samurai's, unless perhaps it be that of a tiger in the jungle.”

Elfriede Jelinek (1946 - ):

“Every day, a piece of music, a short story, or a poem dies because its existence is no longer justified in our time. And things that were once considered immortal have become mortal again, no one knows them anymore. Even though they deserve to survive.”

Tom Petty (1950 - ):

“Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.”