AJ Kessler
As you go through life, you’ll meet the people who have it all figured out. The girl who, in 8th grade, starting taking zoology classes at the local junior college because she knew she wanted to be a Giraffe veterinarian. The kid who practiced the clarinet for 8 hours a day since 3rd grade, not...
AJ Kessler
The worst thing my parents ever told me was that I was smart. When they bought me a toy piano when I was four, my dad tried to teach me to peck out the notes of Mary Had A Little Lamb. When I couldn’t to do it after about 90 seconds, I didn’t even try to play an instrument for another 10 years,...
AJ Kessler
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” – Ernest Hemingway The post Superiority first appeared on The Blog of A.J. Kessler.
AJ Kessler
Whenever you start a project, you should have a plan for finishing it. One outcome is to declare victory, to find that moment when you have satisfied your objectives and reached a goal. The other outcome, which feels like a downer but is almost as good, is to declare failure, to realize that...
AJ Kessler
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. –Stephen Hawking The post The Greatest Enemy of Knowledge first appeared on The Blog of A.J. Kessler.
AJ Kessler
A Jewish man was sitting in a Starbucks reading an Arab newspaper. A friend of his, who happened to be in the same store, noticed this strange phenomenon. Very upset, he approached him and said: ‘Moshe, have you lost your mind? Why are you reading an Arab newspaper?’ Moshe replied, ‘I used to read...
AJ Kessler
Paul McHenry Roberts (1917-1967) taught college English for over twenty years, first at San Jose State College and later at Cornell University. He wrote numerous books on linguistics, including Understanding Grammar (1954), Patterns of English (1956), and Understanding English (1958). Paul also...