Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.
Norton JusterAh, this is fine," he cried triumphantly, holding up a small medallion on a chain. He dusted it off, and engraved on one side were the words "WHY NOT?" "That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.
Norton JusterWhere is the sound?" someone hastily scribbled on the blackboard, and they all waited anxiously for the reply. Milo caught his breath, picked up the chalk, and explained simply, "It's on the tip of my tongue.
Norton JusterJust because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.
Norton JusterWe never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense.
Norton JusterTag: words
Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful if you listen carefully.
Norton JusterAnd, as you've discovered, so many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.
Norton JusterYou can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.
Norton JusterYou 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.
Norton JusterTag: mistakes
if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.
Norton JusterTag: humor imagination illusions reality fantasy on-fiction fiction imaginary children-s
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