Sunday, May 18, 2008

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

  • Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations.
  • Expect everything and the unexpected never happens.
  • It is our most valuable possession, more precious than diamonds. It marches on, it and tide wait for no man.
  • I realized that I'd never amount to anything without an education.
  • You can get in a lot of trouble mixing up words.
  • An ill-chosen word is the fool's messenger.
  • Silence is golden.
  • Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things.
  • On many occasions, where you're going is exactly where you are. On the other hand, you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone.
  • There's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.
  • I'm going to have a very good reason before I make up my mind about anything. You can lose too much time jumping to Conclusions.
  • Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them has to be right.
  • Just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.
  • Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.
  • There's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing.
  • You must never feel badly about making mistakes as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.
  • It's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.
  • Whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way.
  • What you learn today will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
  • What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.
  • So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

12/24/2006

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