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Norton Juster quotes

American Architect June 2, 1929

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Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty. Norton Juster
We're right here on this very spot. Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't - and I don't care at all about where I'm not. 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 is exactly where you are. On the other hand, if you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone, and, since it's much more difficult to find your way back from someplace you've never left, I suggest you go there immediately and then decide. Norton Juster
Norton Juster quote: "When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a..."
When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything. 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. Norton Juster
Where 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 Juster
Why, did you know that if a beaver two feet long with a tail a foot and a half long can build a dam twelve feet high and six feet wide in two days, all you would need to build Boulder Dam is a beaver sixty-eight feet long with a fifty-one-foot tail?"Where would you find a beaver that big?" grumbled the Humbug as his pencil point snapped."I'm sure I don't know," he replied, "but if you did, you'd certainly know what to do with him. Norton Juster
Norton Juster quote: "For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons..."
For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons. Norton Juster
Norton Juster quote: "And that's why people no longer care which words they use as..."
And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them. Norton Juster
We 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 Juster
Norton Juster quote: "Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never..."
Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens. Norton Juster
Norton Juster quote: "Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected."
Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected. Norton Juster
Norton Juster quote: "I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to..."
...I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall. Norton Juster
Norton Juster quote: "Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get..."
Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Norton Juster
You weren't thinking and you weren't paying attention either. People who don't pay attention often get stuck in the Doldrums. Norton Juster

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