Quotes by Educators - Page 25

It's all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then.
Richard Armour
To live in this world, I realized, is to leave pieces of your heart in various places; and to move toward any place is to move away from another.
Frederic S. Durbin
Recalibration of the mind means clearing our perceptions and recovering our capacity for pure observation.
Ilchi Lee
We learn and grow Always building on what we know
Richard L. Ratliff
There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.
Mary Ellen Chase
When Benjamin Franklin, the famous inventor and publisher, was serving as the American ambassador to France, he often impressed French intellectual with the wisdom of his remarks. At one dinner, the question was raised, "What human condition deserves the most pity?" Each of the guests responded, but the answer that is still remembered is Benjamin Franklins's: "A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.
Paul Kropp
Perfecting your character isn’t a marathon, a race, or a competition. It can only be won in stride with daily motivation.
Orly Wahba
It was the world-without-adults daydream. In my dream I'd never quite figured out where the adults went but we kids were free to roam, to help ourselves to anything we wanted. We'd pick up a Merc from a showroom when we wanted wheels, and when it ran out of petrol we'd get another one. We'd change cars the way I change socks. We'd sleep in different mansions every night, going to new houses instead of putting new sheets on the beds. Life would be one long party.Yes, that had been the dream.
John Marsden
You're not really in control, not with this falling-for-people stuff. You don't plan who you're going to fall in love with. It's all random - chance accidents of time and place.
Julia Green
Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.
Peter Drucker
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.
Edith Hamilton
There is something embarrassing about someone else's grief. It is hard to know what to do around it. The right answer, always, is hugs.
Adam Gidwitz
Bushido as an independent code of ethics may vanish, but its power will not perish from the earth; its schools of martial prowess or civic honor may be demolished, but its light and its glory will long survive their ruins. Like its symbolic flower, after it is blown to the four winds, it will still bless mankind with the perfume with which it will enrich life.
Inazo Nitobe
We are currently too attached to our worldly toys, rather than to the lessons our playing could impart to further the maturity of our collective soul.
Ilchi Lee
oo many people are profoundly illiterate in power (TED Talk: Why ordinary people need to understand power). As a result, it’s become ever easier for those who do understand how power operates in civic life to wield a disproportionate influence and fill the void created by the ignorance of the majority.
Eric Liu
Every human heart is human.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Why don't you speak for yourself John?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The fact is, nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best that he gives to the world he gathers from the hearts of the people, and runs it through the alembic of his genius.
James Weldon Johnson
Be a life long or short its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
David Starr Jordan
Anything under God's control is never out of control.
Charles R. Swindoll
Actors," he says, "should only be superficial on the surface.
Johnny Rich
Are we all not knights and ladies of the road?For all the world's our territory,We have our exits and entrances,Experiencing both rejection and acceptance,And each in his timeMust joust with oneTo advance to the other.
Ronald Solberg
When it rains it pours. Maybe the art of life is to convert tough times to great experiences: we can choose to hate the rain or dance in it.
Joan Marques
Men’s greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women’s greatest strength is their facade of weakness.
Warren Farrell
Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes.
Robert M. Hutchins
And in despair I bowed my head;"There is no peace on earth," I said;"For hate is strong,And mocks the songOf peace on earth, good-will to men!"Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:"God is not dead, nor doth he sleep!The Wrong shall fail,the Right prevail,With peace on earth, good-will to men!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This, I suppose, is part of being human, learning from our losses how better to appreciate what is left in their wake.
Jon Chopan
My cup was already brimming before I met him —after it runneth over.
Erica Goros
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.
Paulo Freire
What's God saying to you now? "All things are possible to him who worries?" No. "All things are possible to him who attempts to work it out?" No. "All things are possible to him who believes. --Man to Man: Chuck Swindoll Selects His Most Significant Writings for Men
Charles R. Swindoll
We were most amused by destroying what we'd taken.
Darin Bradley
When we are aware that we are eternal beings, when we become enlightened to the fact that our life is something eternal that cannot be harmed by anything, then we have no attachments to the past of anxiety about the future and are able to focus on the present moment the now.
Ilchi Lee
Simply put, the best teachers believe that learning involves both personal and intellectual development and that neither the ability to think nor the qualities of being a mature human are immutable. People can change, and those changes--not just the accumulation of information--represent true learning.
Ken Bain
I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.
Daisaku Ikeda
Israel's first king, Saul, looked like he was born for the role. He was tall, handsome, intelligent, and sensitive to God's leading. But he eventually lost most of his attractive qualities, the most important being obedience.
Charles R. Swindoll
Healthy emotions come in all sizes. Healthy minds come in all sizes. And healthy bodies come in all sizes.
Cheri K. Erdman
I knew that, in a large degree, we were trying an experiment--that of testing whether or not it was possible for Negroes to build up and control the affairs of a large education institution. I knew that if we failed it wold injure the whole race.
Booker T. Washington
Shed as you do your garments your daily sins whether of omission or commission and you will wake a free man with a new life.
Sir William Osier
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
William Arthur Ward
...we can choose to be truthful even when the choice means personal loss. We can choose to undertake a great action - unselfish, courageous, daringly creative - that looks unreasonable and irrational to the eye of the Ego.
Ilchi Lee
Spontaneity is the quality of being able to do something just because you feel like it at the moment of trusting your instincts of taking yourself by surprise and snatching from the clutches of your well-organized routine a bit of unscheduled pleasure.
Richard Iannelli
From the dawn of exact knowledge to the present day, observation, experiment, and speculation have gone hand in hand; and, whenever science has halted or strayed from the right path, it has been, either because its votaries have been content with mere unverified or unverifiable speculation (and this is the commonest case, because observation and experiment are hard work, while speculation is amusing); or it has been, because the accumulation of details of observation has for a time excluded speculation.
Thomas Henry Huxley
The abundance Jesus offers is a spiritual abundance that transcends circumstances, like income, health, living conditions, and even death. The abundant life is eternal.
Charles R. Swindoll
An unpublished writer should doubt themselves. They should constantly wonder whether what they’re creating has merit. And then, having doubted, they should take up their pen and see if they can’t make it better.
Johnny Rich
The student has his Rome, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
Laurence J. Peter
If you would hit the mark you must aim a little above it: Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Each honest calling each walk of life has its own elite its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.
James Bryant Conant
A year of life spent with someone you love feels like a lifetime. Someone destroys that love it feels like a lifetime is gone. Why do people want to take lifetimes away?
Kensley Hagan
This is the starting point, Daisy had said. It's the symbol for self. Its essence is water. Your relationship with yourself is primary, like water you must be willing to change. The Rune means to me that I must strive to live the ordinary life in a non-ordinary way. This is what it says in The Book of Runes. Take heart, in the spirit you are always beginning.
Denny Taylor
When you build a house You nail down memories Paint and stain the fabric of time
Richard L. Ratliff
The challenge for us is to find some response that actually inspires change rather than clinging to the old ways that cause resentment, and more importantly, distract from the real problem.
Adele Faber
I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me.
Willard D. Vandiver
There is no such thing a boring content. In the hands of a great teacher...even if as teachers we doubt that we can make it so...this doubt puts us at risk of undercutting it: watering it down or apologizing for teaching it.
Doug Lemov
Into each life some rain must fall some days must be dark and dreary.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Electronic communication has transmuted conversations into durable and accessible records. Revisionist history has gone the way of the phone booth.
Kent Alan Robinson
I feel underslept but overjoyed. Nothing feels so good as this.
Johnny Rich
Our beliefs shape how we perceive reality to be, and the belief that shapes our current perception of reality was adopted by the worldview of Newtonian physics, which asserts that reality is objective—that there is a material universe existing outside of our experience. But this isn’t true; there is no material universe outside of you; the Universe takes form through you.
Joseph P. Kauffman