Best Quotes by Norton Juster (Top 10)

  1. So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.
  2. Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.
  3. 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.
  4. The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.
  5. Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.
  6. 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.
  7. The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.
  8. ... what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
  9. ...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.
  10. A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

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