All Quotes By Tag: Nonfiction

“For all students, a network of career exploration opportunities, sponsors, and mentors is a critical accompaniment to coursework.”

“Are schools rewarding the right people as the highest achievers? If the goal is hard-working, productive, adaptable adults, then U.S. high schools are recognizing precisely the correct group.”

“Just as the stereotypes of the one-sided academic grind or the obsessed genius are myths for high school valedictorians, also false is the conception of academic achievers as troubled individuals effective only in school.”

“As a group, valedictorians have always led well-rounded, socially integrated, ‘normal’ lives.”

“Female valedictorians marry a little later and participate somewhat more heavily in paid work than women in their age group nationally.”

“In their early thirties, the most career-invested women and men in the Illinois Valedictorian Project are those who have found deep personal meaning in vocations. Those qualities and conditions that keep students centered on work are different than those that made them high school valedictorian.”

“To reach the head of the class, students needed to conform to the school system and work equally hard at all subjects.”

“But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who is listening to me; and, if I stop to consider what is proper to be said to this or that person, I shall soon come to doubt whether any part at all is proper.”

“Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write.”

“Money has the power to get, all that you want.Money has the power to make you forget, all that you want.”

“Make mistakes, a thousand of them because we are only humans.Never repeat your mistakes because we are humans.”

“It’s nice to know in my life Jesus is behind me. There have been times when I thought that I was going through my struggle myself. I was resentful of anyone that was happy around me since I was bitter that I had to go through , what I felt to be, a very unbearable trial. It was a good relief to know that I could talk to Jesus about my problems when I felt like I had no one else to talk to. It was comforting to know that He understood my dilemma when others couldn’t.”

“Most important thing in life is family,Without them you are nothing.Whatever you do will be worth nothing,If there is no one to appreciate it.”

“Poetry is a way of coming to know the realness of things; fiction is a way of coming to know the world of relationships; nonfiction is a way of coming to know the world of the mind.”

“Even if we try to conform to ideals and strive for perfection, we will always be pulled back to our core identity because it’s the path of least resistance for our souls – an energy force that wants nothing more than for us to honor and accept who we are and discover what we’re meant to do in the world.”