Sure, one can always get the students to relax and be happy - entertained, but although being laid back and relax can also lead to creativity, mostly it means that nothing much gets done.


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NORMAN MAILER
People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of thei...
NORMAN DOUGLAS
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents ...
NORMAN DOUGLAS
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
NORMAN DOUGLAS
There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juice...
NORMAN MAILER
We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to l...
NORMAN COUSINS
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives -- the death of genuine feeling, the...
NORMAN COUSINS
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
NORMAN COUSINS
Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead thems...
NORMAN TEBBIT
The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.
NORMAN DOUGLAS
Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The w...
NORMAN COUSINS
What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptio...
NORMAN MAILER
Like a celestial chaperon, the placebo leads us through the uncharted passageways of mind and gives ...
NORMAN COUSINS
If sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured t...
NORMAN AUGUSTINE
There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the w...
NORMAN MAILER
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of i...
NORMAN COUSINS
Once a newspaper touches a story the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
NORMAN MAILER
They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.
NORMAN DOUGLAS
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis--once that crisis can ...
NORMAN COUSINS
Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.
NORMAN MAILER
Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless...
NORMAN ALLEN
It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be ent...
NORMAN ANGELL
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
NORMAN DOUGLAS
The word conservative is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views diffe...
NORMAN TEBBIT
A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods...
NORMAN COUSINS
The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the pu...
NORMAN COUSINS
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of...
NORMAN COUSINS
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings -- ...
NORMAN DOUGLAS
If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.
NORMAN THOMAS
I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of ho...
NORMAN MAILER
One of the most feared expressions in modern times is The computer is down
NORMAN AUGUSTINE
Cynicism is intellectual treason.
NORMAN COUSINS
It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes int...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF
In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.
NORMAN MAILER
There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.
NORMAN MAILER
It takes a wise man to handle a lie. A fool had better remain honest.
NORMAN DOUGLAS
Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you ne...
JESSYE NORMAN