Then it dawned on me. We had indeed spent most of the time talking. It was just that Sr. Norma kept asking questions of everyone around her. Rather than make it about herself, she had found a way to use all that time to get to know me and the ACE teachers.

Comments on baseball in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (23 July 1846), as quoted in Walt Whitman Looks at the Schools (1950) by Florence Bernstein Freedman, p. 126-127 Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.”

This has been widely attributed to Whitman, and no one else, but without definite source. It has sometimes been cited as being from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (sometimes with a date of 23 July 1846), where Whitman had been an editor, but its presence on that date is not apparent in the online historical archives of that publication. I like the scientific spirit – the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine – it always keeps the way beyond open – always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake – after a wrong guess.” Finding a quote online is easy. Ensuring that quote was actually said by the person attributed is not always as simple. To prevent misinformation and ensure our writing is powerful and accurate, we must do our due diligence. Sure, it takes a bit of time and effort, but it’s an important part of the writing process. The same way awe feels like, I guess. And wonder. And fascination. And having a question that you don’t have an answer to (sometimes).

From series star Jason Sudeikis and fellow creators Bill Lawrence, Brendan Hunt and Joe Kelly, Ted Lasso deserves its reputation as one of the most quotable shows of the modern television age. It’s brimming with enough quips to match Coach Lasso’s infectious enthusiasm and a veritable stadium-sized amount of heartfelt sentiments — so many you couldn’t fit them all as Post-its on a wall. If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than any equal number of people elsewhere — probably more than the rest of the world combined. Not I nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere – on water and land.” Construct Steel Arguments Not Straw Ones We need to learn to argue more effectively to get at the truth

Best Nate Shelley Quote That’s a Little Less Funny Now

I think things come into our lives to help us get from one place to a better one.” — Ted Lasso, Season 2 Episode 1: “Goodbye Earl” Whitman...a man full-blooded and brotherly, unselfconscious in his democracy and genuinely at ease with all kinds and classes.