“Anyone can make a mistake.... It's how they learn from it and recover from it that shows their true worth.”
― John Flanagan, quote from The Invaders
“Men... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task.”
― John Flanagan, quote from The Invaders
“He looked up at Stig and Hal. 'Told you this one was a keeper.' Lydia flushed as the two boys smiled. 'Shut up. You make sure you do your stuff with those two overgrown dinner bowls you call shields.”
― John Flanagan, quote from The Invaders
“Welcome to Shelter Bay,' he said to Stig. 'Is that what it's called?' Hal gave him a tired grin. 'It is now'.”
― John Flanagan, quote from The Invaders
“It was ten against ten. So, as Svengal later recounted, it was no contest. He had the enemy outnumbered three to one.”
― John Flanagan, quote from The Invaders
“People always find it amusing when they see a friend suffering, Stig thought.”
― John Flanagan, quote from The Invaders
“Nothing like a little wanton destruction to get boys excited, Thorn thought, smiling to himself.”
― John Flanagan, quote from The Invaders
John Flanagan
Born place: in Sydney, Australia
Born date May 22, 1944
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“Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was. —The Monster, Frankenstein”
― Suzanne Enoch, quote from England's Perfect Hero
“PERFECTION The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the “quantity” group: fifty pounds of pots rated an “A”, forty pounds a “B”, and so on. Those being graded on “quality”, however, needed to produce only one pot — albeit a perfect one — to get an “A”. Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the “quantity” group was busily churning out piles of work-and learning from their mistakes — the “quality” group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.”
― quote from Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
“When I die, I want them to bury me facedown and ass up so that the whole world can kiss my ass!”
― Julie Halpern, quote from Get Well Soon
“Omniscient, omnipotent, omnivorous and omnipresent all begin with Om.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from The Krishna Key
“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.”
― Woody Allen, quote from Without Feathers
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