J. W. N. Sullivan Quotes
My life is kinda like a story that if I told you about it, you probably wouldn't believe. It would seem like fiction. That's me.
The most important thing, the biggest love of my life, is my snooker. Ive never been so emotionally ingrained in something - in a person, an object, anything - as I have in snooker.
You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.
My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.
A proper building grows naturally, logically, and poetically out of all its conditions.
Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.
I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.
You don’t win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also make you stupid. You end up tripping over your own two feet.
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.
What I am, at any given moment in the process of my becoming a person, will be determined by my relationships with those who love me or refuse to love me, with those whom I love or refuse to love.
Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.
It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.
Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.
We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and mentally disordered, or whatever.
Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.
The relentless pursuit of perfection has been my problem over the years. It's maybe held me back.
It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.
The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.
If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.
To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he'd be on Mount Rushmore by now.
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
Climate change is and will be a significant threat to our national security and in a larger sense to life on earth as we know it to be.
As you love yourself, so shall you love others. Strange but true, with no exceptions.
The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.
My dad's method in his madness was to try every sport and then observe what I liked. I played football, tennis, golf, cricket but I loved my snooker.
We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.
How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day it crowds things in upon it that darken and weary it.
I've been semi-successful. I've done all right but I'm not the player I was. Who do I think will win the world championship? John Higgins. Have I been good for snooker? I don't know.
It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to gain the knowledge that is helpful.
Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.
If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself.
If you do not feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know.
Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.