I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth
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 t… - Norton Juster
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 t…
- Norton Juster
...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is. - Norton Juster
...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.
And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves. - Norton Juster
And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.
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 … - Norton Juster
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 …
So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible. - Norton Juster
So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.
Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens. - Norton Juster
Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.
What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow. - Norton Juster
What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions, where you are going … - Norton Juster
I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions, where you are going …
...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. - Norton Juster
...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.
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