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> [The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly--we only think it does. The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-bruchac/the-best-teachers-have-showed-me-that-things-have-to-be-done-bit-by/)

[Joseph Bruchac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-bruchac/)

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> [“The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly--we only think it does. The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-bruchac/the-best-teachers-have-showed-me-that-things-have-to-be-done-bit-by-2/)

[Joseph Bruchac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-bruchac/)

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## Other authors on Arrow

## More by Joseph Bruchac

> [Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-bruchac/do-we-make-ourselves-into-what-we-become-or-is-it-built-into-our/)

[Joseph Bruchac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-bruchac/)

> [“The old man must have stopped our car two dozen times to climb out and gather into his hands the small toads blinded by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-bruchac/the-old-man-must-have-stopped-our-car-two-dozen-times-to-climb-out/)

[Joseph Bruchac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-bruchac/)

> [Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-bruchac/guilt-can-make-you-doubt-yourself-at-the-very-moment-when-you-need-to/)

[Joseph Bruchac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-bruchac/)

> [Knowledge is easy to come by. Understanding what you know takes much longer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-bruchac/knowledge-is-easy-to-come-by-understanding-what-you-know-takes-much/)

[Joseph Bruchac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-bruchac/)

> [There are many people who could claim and learn from their Indian ancestry, but because of the fear their parents and grandparents knew, because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-bruchac/there-are-many-people-who-could-claim-and-learn-from-their-indian/)

[Joseph Bruchac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-bruchac/)

> [The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly--we only think it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-bruchac/the-best-teachers-have-showed-me-that-things-have-to-be-done-bit-by/)

[Joseph Bruchac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-bruchac/)

> [There is a kind of certainty that seems to characterize Jared Smith's best work, an understanding about place and the flow of spirit that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-bruchac/there-is-a-kind-of-certainty-that-seems-to-characterize-jared-smith-s/)

[Joseph Bruchac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-bruchac/)

> [It is important to understand that there are many different ways of seeing the world and expressing the wisdom of Native belief...No one voice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-bruchac/it-is-important-to-understand-that-there-are-many-different-ways-of/)

[Joseph Bruchac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-bruchac/)

> [Native people such as the Cherokees are just as human and complex and real as Americans are, and our nation needs to respect American…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-bruchac/native-people-such-as-the-cherokees-are-just-as-human-and-complex-and/)

[Joseph Bruchac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-bruchac/)

> [“So it is that both this breathing moment and what is called "the future"are always linked with what is called "the past." So it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-bruchac/so-it-is-that-both-this-breathing-moment-and-what-is-called-the/)

[Joseph Bruchac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-bruchac/)

> [“Librarians. . . have been my lifelong friends, guides and heroes.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-bruchac/librarians-have-been-my-lifelong-friends-guides-and-heroes/)

[Joseph Bruchac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-bruchac/)

> [When the Lakota leader Sitting Bull was asked by a white reporter why his people loved and respected him, Sitting Bull replied by asking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-bruchac/when-the-lakota-leader-sitting-bull-was-asked-by-a-white-reporter-why/)

[Joseph Bruchac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-bruchac/)

> [“I wish you had been there with me in that picture,” he used to say to Wilsie and me. “It is so lonely being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-bruchac/i-wish-you-had-been-there-with-me-in-that-picture-he-used-to-say-to/)

[Joseph Bruchac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-bruchac/)

> [We need to walk to know sacred places, those around us and those within. We need to walk to remember the songs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-bruchac/we-need-to-walk-to-know-sacred-places-those-around-us-and-those/)

[Joseph Bruchac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-bruchac/)

> [A journal is a very personal thing. As far as possible, to write this sort of book you need to know and feel your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-bruchac/a-journal-is-a-very-personal-thing-as-far-as-possible-to-write-this/)

[Joseph Bruchac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-bruchac/)

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