Who knew that J.K. Rowling was so bloody interesting?
I sure didn't.
After watching her talk online (an old speech given in 2008 at Harvard) I just had to post this quote.
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.”
J.K. Rowling
I am also a liar.
Jane Thornton is the REAL reason I found out about Rowling's talk on-line.
She came to Branksome Hall as a keynote speaker last week for our UN Culminating task and well,
did such a fabulous job talking about how failures had helped her so much along the way
that I just had to find out more about this quote she used in her presentation!
And I guess?
The students were so inspired they wrote stuff like this...
“The thing that I learned from Ms. Thornton's speech was that you do not have to dedicate your life to helping people, you just need to stop ignoring them as human beings"
Gr. 7 Girl named Izzie
People really are amazing, aren't they?
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