The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have. Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook)
The teacher who awakens and encourages in students a
sense of possibility and responsibility is, to me, the ultimate leader.
Stanley McChrystal
Knowledge is useless to executives unless it has been translated into deeds. Peter F. Drucker
Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach. Rosabeth Moss Kantor
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. Everett Dirksen
Are leaders born or made? This is a false dichotomy –
leaders are neither born nor made. Leaders choose to be leaders. Stephen
R. Covey
Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking
charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated
person. Warren Bennis
The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. Harvey S. Firestone
Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others. Roy T. Bennett
For everyone of us that succeeds, it’s because there’s
somebody there to show you the way out. The light doesn’t always
necessarily have to be in your family; for me it was teachers and
school. Oprah Winfrey
It’s not the absence of leadership potential that
inhibits the development of more leaders; it’s the persistence of the
myth that leadership can’t be learned. This haunting myth is a far more
powerful deterrent to leadership development than is the nature of the
person or the basics of the leadership process. James Kouzes and Barry
Posner
Part of company culture is path-dependent – it’s the lessons you learn along the way. Jeff Bezos (Amazon)
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela
Mastery of reading and writing requires a master. Still more so life. Marcus Aurelius
Leaders know the importance of having someone in their
lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth. Warren
Bennis
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. Horace Mann
Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be
your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from
everyone else. Sara Blakely
In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who
inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a
world that no longer exists. Warren Bennis
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be
content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of
standing out. Warren Bennis
Being humble doesn’t mean that you lack self-confidence,
or that you never stand up for your own opinions or principles. It does
mean recognizing that you don’t know everything – and that you’re
willing to learn from others. Justin Bariso
When you put together deep knowledge about a subject that
intensely matters to you, charisma happens. You gain courage to share
your passion, and when you do that, folks follow. Jerry Porras
Inexperience is an asset. Embrace it. Wendy Kopp
There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think.
Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
A wise parent allows the children to make mistakes. It is good for them once in a while to burn their fingers.
Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.
Real education
has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated. This
can never be done by packing ill-assorted and unwanted information into
the heads of the pupils. It becomes a dead weight crushing all
originality in them and turning them into mere automata.
An intellect that is developed through the medium of
socially useful labour will be an instrument for service and will not
easily be led astray or fall into devious paths.
I hold that, as the largest part of our time is devoted
to labour for earning our bread, our children must from their infancy be
taught the dignity of such labour.
Craft, art, health and education should all be integrated into one scheme.
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
Part 1. Our first duty is that we should not be a burden
on society, i.e., we should be self-dependent. From this point of view
self-sufficiency itself is a kind of service.
Part 2. After becoming self-sufficient we shall use our
spare time for the service of others. If all become self-sufficient,
none will be in trouble.
Given the right kind of teachers, our children will be
taught the dignity of labour and learn to regard it as an integral part
and a means of their intellectual growth, and to realize that it is
patriotic to pay for their training through their labour.
It is for you and me to show that no vice is inherent in man.
Education must be of a new type for the sake of the creation of a new world.
Character cannot be built with mortar and stone. It
cannot be built by hands other than your own. The Principal and the
Professor cannot give you character from the pages of books. Character
building comes from their very lives really speaking, it must come from
within yourselves.
When it is remembered that the primary aim of all
education is, or should be, the moulding of the character of pupils, a
teacher who has a character to keep need not lost heart.
If teachers impart all the knowledge in the world to
their students but inculcate not truth and purity among them, they will
have betrayed them and instead of raising them set them on the downward
road to perdition.
Knowledge without character is a power for evil only, as
seen in the instances of so many talented thieves and ‘gentlemen
rascals’ in the world.
Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.
There can be no knowledge without humility and the will to learn.
Literary training by itself adds not an inch to one’s
moral height and that character-building is independent of literary
training.
The students should be, above all, humble and correct… The greatest to remain great has to be the lowliest by choice.
The utterly false idea that intelligence can be developed
only through book-reading should give place to the truth that the
quickest development of the mind can be achieved by artisan’s work being
learnt in a scientific manner.
We have up to now concentrated on stuffing children’s
minds with all kinds information, without ever thinking of stimulating
and developing them. Let us now cry a halt and concentrate on education
the child properly through manual work, not as a side activity, but as
the prime means of intellectual training.
You have to train the boys in one occupation or another.
Round this special occupation you will train up his mind, his body, his
handwriting, his artistic sense, and so on. He will be master of the
craft he learns.
If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy,
religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as
necessary as secular instruction.
It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one’s acts.
Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.
Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away
the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger
for confession.
There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we
achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come
by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is
learnt in the school of adversity.
There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it. Toni Morrison
There is no friend as loyal as a book. Ernest Hemingway
The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul — books. Emily Dickinson
The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write. Ernest Gaines
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. Stephen King
If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time – or the tools – to write. Simple as that. Stephen King
I really think that reading is just as important as
writing when you’re trying to be a writer because it’s the only
apprenticeship we have, it’s the only way of learning how to write a
story. John Green
Reading is important because, if you can read, you can
learn anything about everything and everything about anything. Tomie
dePaola
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks
on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a
story. Ursula K. Le Guin
You should write because you love the shape of stories
and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing
comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.
Annie Proulx
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to
your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick
up a work of fiction.
Read, read, read. Read everything – trash, classics, good
and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an
apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write.
If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
William Faulkner
Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then
see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very
pleasant careers. Ray Bradbury
The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading,
in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one
book. Samuel Johnson
When I graduated from high school I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years. Ray Bradbury
Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river. Lisa See
Words create worlds. Pierre du Plessis
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. Rudyard Kipling
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. Joan Didion
I like good words that mean something. Louisa May Alcott
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule. Stephen King
Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most
inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and
remedying it. J.K. Rowling
All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. Kahlil Gibran
The difference between the almost right word and the
right word is really a large matter — ’tis the difference between the
lightning-bug and the lightning. Mark Twain.
To get the right word in the right place is a rare
achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into
the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize
composition just by itself… Anybody can have ideas – the difficulty is
to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that
ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph. Mark Twain
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. E. B. White
All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. Ernest Hemingway
When a thought takes one’s breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence. Thomas W. Higginson
Being a writer requires an intoxication with language. Jim Harrison
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. Carol Burnett
Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, “It might have been”. John Greenleaf Whittier
Words have the power to make things happen. Frederick Buechner
Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure. Edward Thorndike
Words can inspire. And words can destroy. Choose yours well. Robin Sharma
A synonym is a word you use when you can’t spell the other one. Baltasar Gracián
I don’t know the rules of grammar. If you’re trying to
persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you
should use their language. David Ogilvy
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always
become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little
distorted, a little foolish. Hermann Hesse
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. Aldous Huxley
Words are containers for power, you choose what kind of power they carry. Joyce Meyer
Your word is the power that you have to create; it is a gift. Don Miguel Ruiz
A poet can survive everything but a misprint. Oscar Wilde
Words are a lens to focus one’s mind. Ayn Rand
I don’t write for children. I write. And somebody says, that’s for children. Maurice Sendak
I don’t want to write for adults. I want to write for
readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when
they read. Astrid Lindgren
Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. E.B. White
Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for
children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should
therefore be accorded the same respect. Mark Haddon
One of the nicest things about writing for children is
that you don’t find them deconstructing novels. Either they like it or
they don’t like it. J.K. Rowling
I didn’t write with a target audience in mind. What
excited me was how much I would enjoy writing about Harry. I never
thought about writing for children ― children’s books chose me. I think
if it is a good book anyone will read it. J.K. Rowling
A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not
false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to
lift people up, not lower them down. Writers do not merely reflect and
interpret life, they inform and shape life. E.B. White
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And
if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for
children. Madeleine L’Engle
So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads. Dr. Seuss
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. Oscar Wilde
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Henry David Thoreau
What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can’t reread a phone call. Liz Carpenter
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened. Ernest Hemingway
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. Italo Calvino
Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good
for you, and the things they claim are junk. You’ll find what you need
to find. Just read. Neil Gaiman
If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it. Wally Lamb
Grammar is the grave of letters. Elbert Hubbard
Books worth reading are worth re-reading. Holbrook Jackson
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. George R. R. Martin
One sure window into a person’s soul is his reading list. Mary B. W. Tabor
A real book is not one that’s read, but one that reads us. W.H. Auden
I cannot live without books. Thomas Jefferson
By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in
history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me
is a miracle. Kurt Vonnegut
To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart. Phyllis Theroux
Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company. Lord Byron
It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel. Elizabeth Drew
The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters. Svetlana Alliluyeva
Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer. Lord Byron
I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter. D.H. Lawrence
Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. John F. Kennedy
Especially in a time in which the values of reading and
inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom. Susan
Sontag
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. Oscar Wilde
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. Walt Whitman
To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself. Anne Rice
Every writer I know has trouble writing. Joseph Heller
Writing about a writer’s block is better than not writing at all. Charles Bukowski
Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing. Norman Mailer
The first draft is just you telling yourself the story. Terry Pratchett
We’re professional worriers. You’re constantly imagining things that could go wrong and then writing about them. John Green
A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. Thomas Mann
I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist
whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the
sound he hears within. Gustave Flaubert
I hate writing, I love having written. Dorothy Parker
You can only write regularly if you’re willing to write
badly… Accept bad writing as a way of priming the pump, a warm-up
exercise that allows you to write well. Jennifer Egan
I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’
And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft
of anything is really just a track. Gore Vidal
Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of job; it’s
always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite
often the blank piece of paper wins. Neil Gaiman
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear
from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing
you have to offer. Barbara Kingsolver
The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with. William Faulkner
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. E.L. Doctorow
No book can ever be finished. While working on it we
learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it.
Karl Popper
I just give myself permission to suck. I delete about 90
percent of my first drafts… so it doesn’t really matter much if on a
particular day I write beautiful and brilliant prose that will stick in
the minds of my readers forever, because there’s a 90 percent chance I’m
just gonna delete whatever I write anyway. I find this hugely
liberating. John Green
I am not a great artist, but I have always felt impelled
to write. So each day I sift the sludge anew, going through the cast-off
bits and pieces of observation, of memory, of speculation, trying to
make something out of the stuff that didn’t go through the filter and
down the drain into the subconscious. Stephen King
One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly.
I tell myself that I’m going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what,
and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I’ll
have lost nothing — writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no
further behind than if I took the day off. Lawrence Block
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. Ernest Hemingway
Anyone who says writing is easy isn’t doing it right. Amy Joy
Writing is a struggle against silence. Carlos Fuentes
You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one. John Wooden
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art. Benjamin Disraeli
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. Norman Vincent Peale
If you’re not failing now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative. Woody Allen
I’ve been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five
years, and can’t remember a single useful point in any of them, or the
slightest good advice. Anton Chekhov
I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read
widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting
rejection letters. And only write what you love. Anita Diamant
Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully
phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the
devil—but there is no way around them. Isaac Asimov
The artist doesn’t have time to listen to the critics.
The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to
write don’t have the time to read reviews. William Faulkner
Was I bitter? Absolutely. Hurt? You bet your sweet ass I
was hurt. Who doesn’t feel a part of their heart break at rejection. You
ask yourself every question you can think of, what, why, how come, and
then your sadness turns to anger. That’s my favorite part. It drives me,
feeds me, and makes one hell of a story. Jennifer Salaiz
I used to save all my rejection slips because I told
myself, one day I’m going to autograph these and auction them. And then I
lost the box. James Lee Burke
I think that you have to believe in your destiny; that
you will succeed, you will meet a lot of rejection and it is not always a
straight path, there will be detours — so enjoy the view. Michael York
I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged. Erica Jong
As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection. Carol Leifer
Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. Aristotle
I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long. Louise Brown
The
first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to
cope with rejection. If you can’t, you’re dead. Warren Adler
I had immediate success in the sense that I sold
something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of
cake and it really wasn’t. I have drawers full of — or I did have —
drawers full of rejection slips. Fred Saberhagen
An absolutely necessary part of a writer’s equipment,
almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under
punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment
he inflicts upon himself. Irwin Shaw
To defend what you’ve written is a sign that you are alive. William Zinsser
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. C. S. Lewis
The most important things are the hardest things to say. Stephen King
I write to discover what I know. Flannery O’Connor
The joy that isn’t shared dies young. Anne Sexton
The only story that seems worth writing is a cry, a shot, a scream. A story should break the reader’s heart. Susan Sontag
Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it’s the answer to everything…
It’s the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build
up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to
let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower
out of life, even if it’s a cactus. Enid Bagnold
Writers are not here to conform. We are here to
challenge. We’re not here to be comfortable — we’re here, really, to
shake things up. That’s our job. Jeanette Winterson
A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer. Joseph Conrad
Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and
control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that
noise. Philip Roth
It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young
people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition. Isaac
Asimov
Find out the reason that commands you to write; see
whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart;
confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to
write. Rainer Maria Rilke
One writes most of all in order to take part in a collective enterprise. Italo Calvino
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t
matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn’t
make us better, then what on earth is it for. Alice Walker
Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind
through the eye, is the great invention of the world… enabling us to
converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of
time and space. Abraham Lincoln
Yes there is a meaning; at least for me, there is one
thing that matters – to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a
few fastidious people. Logan Persall Smith
When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself,
‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some
lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention,
and my initial concern is to get a hearing. George Orwell
The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endue it. Samuel Johnson
Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood. William Howard Taft
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. Anaïs Nin
A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. Benjamin Disraeli
The quality of a university is measured more by the kind of student it turns out than the kind it takes in. Robert J. Kibbee
What we become depends on what we read after all of the
professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a
collection of books. Thomas Carlyle
No university in the world has ever risen to greatness
without a correspondingly great library… When this is no longer true,
then will our civilization have come to an end. Lawrence Clark Powell
Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of
teaching – without these a university cannot exist. Robert Maynard
Hutchins
A university’s essential character is that of being a
center of free inquiry and criticism – a thing not to be sacrificed for
anything else. Richard Hofstadter
The university most worthy of rational admiration is that
one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most
positively furthered, and most richly fed. William James
One learns more from listening than speaking. And both
the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have
much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls. Thor
Heyerdahl
The task of a university is the creation of the future,
so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can
affect the issue. Alfred North Whitehead
There are few earthly things more beautiful
than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to
know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see. John
Masefield
A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination. David Horowitz
With an education you all have everything you need to
rise above all of the noise and fulfill every last one of your dreams.
Michelle Obama
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room. Dr. Seuss
Resiliency is a skill that cannot be overlooked. In fact,
it can be a skill that is the difference between surviving and
thriving. Laurie A. Namey
A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions. Martin H. Fischer
You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil. Friedrich Nietzsche
My whole teaching is simply this: Whatsoever you are,
accept it so totally that nothing is left to be achieved, and you will
become a white cloud. Osho
Every child is simple, just a clean slate. Then the
parents start writing on his slate – what he has to become. Then the
teachers, the priests, the leaders – they all go on emphasizing that you
have to become somebody; otherwise, you have wasted your life. Just the
opposite is the case. You are a being. You need not become anybody
else. That is the meaning of simplicity: remaining at ease with one’s
being, and not going on any track of becoming – which is unending. Osho
On questioning everything:
It would infuriate my parents that I wouldn’t just believe them when
they said something, because I asked them why and then I consider
whether that response made sense given everything else I know. Elon Musk
I think people can choose to be not ordinary. They can
choose to not necessarily conform to the conventions that were taught to
them by their parents. So yes, I think it’s possible for ordinary
people to choose to be extraordinary. Elon Musk
Passive acceptance of the teacher’s wisdom is easy to
most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and
seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is
moreover the way to win the favor of the teacher unless he is a very
exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one
in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to
accept as a leader whoever is established in that position. Bertrand
Russell
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard
it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored
by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written
in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the
authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions
because they have been handed down for many generations. But after
observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason
and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it
and live up to it. Buddha
The truth is when I went to graduate school I would’ve
said I was among the least talented of the students, I was certainly the
least smart, or less educated. But I worked very hard. Mary Karr
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin,
barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship
what is known, but to question it. Jacob Bronowski
Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly
the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller,
Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas
Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age;
and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so
conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for
nourishment. Leonardo da Vinci
The function of a child is to live his/her own life, not
the life that his/her anxious parents think he/she should live, nor a
life according to the purpose of the educators who thinks they knows
best. A.S. Neill
The middle years should be so busy, so demanding, so
active, so adventurous that adolescents should barely have time for
introspection. Michael Barber
I am still learning. Michelangelo
Learning never exhausts the mind. Leonardo da Vinci
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. Albert Einstein
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Cicero
The learned man knows that he is ignorant. Victor Hugo
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. Augustine of Hippo
Failure is success if we learn from it. Malcolm Forbes
You can never be overdressed or overeducated. Oscar Wilde
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open. James Dewar
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. B. B. King
I am not a teacher, but an awakener. Robert Frost
Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way. George Evans
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Oscar Wilde
Teaching is the greatest act of optimism. Colleen Wilcox
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner. Elbert Hubbard
I always felt I needed to teach to survive. Leonard Baskin
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Albert Einstein
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who
tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you
with a sharp stick called ‘truth’. Dan Rather
Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the
fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I
would argue, probably the biggest single differentiator of success for
the nations of the 21st Century. David Puttnam
The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able
to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’ Maria
Montessori
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. Maria Montessori
I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher. Temple Grandin
I’ve come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element
in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate.
It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a
tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a
tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or
heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis
will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized.
Haim G. Ginott
I think once you’re in the public eye, whether you’re a
boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you’re automatically in the
position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether
you choose to accept it or not is a different question. Talib Kweli
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process. A. Bartlett Giamatti
Winston Churchill Quotes
1. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
2. “Never, never, never give up.” – Winston Churchill
3. “Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.” – Winston Churchill
4. “Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.” – Winston Churchill
5. “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” – Winston Churchill
6. “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” – Winston Churchill
7. “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist
sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” -Winston Churchill
8. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
9. “If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
10. “My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.” – Winston Churchill
11. “It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.” – Winston Churchill
12. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
13. “Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.” – Winston Churchill
14. “Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.” – Winston Churchill
15. “The price of greatness is responsibility.” – Winston Churchill
16. “Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.” – Winston Churchill
17. “It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.” – Winston Churchill
18. “When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.” – Winston Churchill
19. “The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.” – Winston Churchill
20. “Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.” – Winston Churchill
21. “Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.” – Winston Churchill
22. “When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.” – Winston Churchill
23. “You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.” – Winston Churchill
24. “You create your own universe as you go along.” – Winston Churchill
25. “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” – Winston Churchill
26. “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.” – Winston Churchill
27. “Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.” – Winston Churchill
28. “The most important thing about education is appetite.” – Winston Churchill
29. “Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.” – Winston Churchill
30. “Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.” – Winston Churchill
31. “Good and great are seldom in the same man.” – Winston Churchill
32. “We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.” – Winston Churchill
33. “Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.” – Winston Churchill
34. “It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.” – Winston Churchill
35. “We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.” – Winston Churchill
36. “Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities…
because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” – Winston
Churchill
37. “It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.” – Winston Churchill
38. “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” – Winston Churchill
39. “I never worry about action, but only about inaction.” – Winston Churchill
40. “The further backward you look, the further forward you can see.” – Winston Churchill
41. “Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.” – Winston Churchill
42. “We shape our dwellings and afterwards our dwellings shape us.” – Winston Churchill
43. “A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.” – Winston Churchill
44. “War is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the will to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
45. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Winston Churchill
46. “It’s Never Over ’till it’s over!” – Winston Churchill
47. “When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.” – Winston Churchill
48. “A change is as good as a rest.” – Winston Churchill
49. “It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.” -Winston Churchill
50. “The first quality that is needed is audacity.” – Winston Churchill
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