“I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.”

— Aaron Klug

in his Autobiography http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1982/klug-autobio.html, The Nobel Prizes 1982, Editor Wilhelm Odelberg, Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, 1983.

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Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

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Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

Source: You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

“What would I do if Alex wasn't around? I would have no one to keep me on my toes or to fight. So of course I am pleased he changed his mind. I enjoy our rivalry. It is good for Arsenal, good for Manchester United and good for both of us.”

Arsène Wenger (1949) French footballer and manager

In response to Sir Alex Ferguson's retirement u-turn, (February 2002) http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20020210/ai_n12837467/

“When it's going well, stand-up is the best thing in the world, but when it's not, it feels like all your toes are being pulled off one by one.”

Jennifer Coolidge (1961) American actress and comedian

"Interview: Jennifer Coolidge, actor and comedian", in The Scotsman (3 August 2010) https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/interview-jennifer-coolidge-actor-and-comedian-1-477451.

“The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.”

Emile Zola (1840–1902) French writer (1840-1902)

Source: The Masterpiece

“In Paris, I quickly mastered the Foxtrot, the Shimmy and the One Step, [he liked the Shimmy best:] At first, the heel-toe was sort of tricky. Nowadays, they find ways around it.”

Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) Peintre Néerlandais

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“Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.”

John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent

Source: The Winter of Our Discontent

“There's nothing like a debate to teach one quickness.”

E.M. Forster book Howards End

Source: Howards End (1910), Ch. 15
Context: There's nothing like a debate to teach one quickness. I often wish I had gone in for them when I was a youngster. It would have helped me no end.

“I like to think of myself as the girl that no one can get, that no one can keep in their hand.”

Miley Cyrus (1992) American actor and singer-songwriter

People Magazine http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20212607,00.html (July 15, 2008)

“Barred from philosophy and bored by facts, he wanted to teach his students something not wholly useless. The number of students whose minds were of an order above the average was, in his experience, barely one in ten; the rest could not be much stimulated by any inducements a teacher could suggest. All were respectable, and in seven years of contact, Adams never had cause to complain of one; but nine minds in ten take polish passively, like a hard surface; only the tenth sensibly reacts.”

Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist

The Education of Henry Adams (1907)

“I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.”

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