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William Shakespeare

"Exit, pursued by a bear." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/Uj7xDsH via IFTTT

Haddon W. Robinson

"What worries you masters you." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/Us1LXSD via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

I have never encountered any children in any group who are not geniuses. There is no mystery on how to teach them. The first thing you do is treat them like human beings and the second thing you do is love them. - Asa Hilliard from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/wfjGu1M via IFTTT

Louis Armstrong

"What we play is life." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/GKVfb0L via IFTTT

James Thurber

"There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/WNo1jSw via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

The schoolroom clock was worn raw by stares; and you couldn't look up at the big Puritanical face of it and not feel the countless years of young eyes reflected in it, urging it onwards. It was a dark, old spirit that didn't so much mark time as bequeath it. - Tod Wodicka from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/diOYtjb via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

It is important that students bring a certain rafamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it - Jacob Chanowski from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/diOYtjb via IFTTT

King Farouk of Egypt

"The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left--the King of England, the King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/bFG37D4 via IFTTT

Roy M. Cohn

"Go after a man's weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you're going to follow through, because if you don't, the next time you won't be taken seriously." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/kn8PDoJ via IFTTT

Art quote of the day - They Said So

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. - Italo Calvino from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/MR8a2fO via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head. - C.S. Lewis from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/14liNEu via IFTTT

Gordon Atkinson

"It's not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is right in front of us." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/7Hgftwy via IFTTT

Georges Clemenceau

"War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/ZdvFaP5 via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

Do question, even the basics!You will be a fool for once!If you don't, you will be, for a lifetime. - Himmilicious from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/14liNEu via IFTTT

Joan Baez

"The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/3F6KW7k via IFTTT

John Dryden

"Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/gJDlWw0 via IFTTT

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/FNser94 via IFTTT

Aaron Copland

"The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'" from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/Ig2F7if via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

The educator has the duty of not being neutral. - Paulo Freire from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/0aWGeiD via IFTTT

Ben Jonson

"Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/95rWO4A via IFTTT

Dorothy Parker

"I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/IABtWjs via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint-no matter how distasteful to the majority, provided.. - Richard M. Nixon from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/Jxizk5K via IFTTT

Max L. Forman

"Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/jFMuShT via IFTTT

Mark Twain

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/FYkD7NJ via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching. - Fulton J. Sheen from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/Jxizk5K via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age - Robert Martin from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/Anwh7M3 via IFTTT

Miguel de Cervantes

"Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/mW1EeYb via IFTTT

Bertrand Russell

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/o53Desc via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. - Og Mandino from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/Anwh7M3 via IFTTT

Alexandre Dumas

"All generalizations are dangerous, even this one." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/KRnvfEz via IFTTT

Maureen Dowd

"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/uxkhf9O via IFTTT

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

"Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/QjYkVSs via IFTTT

Bernard Berenson

"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/OLm13z7 via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game. - Toni Morrison from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/3HN8tjQ via IFTTT

Hob Broun

"Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/JeDnd4y via IFTTT

Japanese Proverb

"When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/nsKi84Y via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know - Woodrow T. Wilson from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/1BJUGgZ via IFTTT

Unknown

"A stitch in time would have confused Einstein." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/r7t8NDk via IFTTT

Jacob Braude

"Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/7Ei4LeG via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us. - Ayn Rand from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/1BJUGgZ via IFTTT

Gertrude Stein

"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/2npkBTU via IFTTT

Ambrose Bierce

"Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/Utkudsr via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see. - Alexandra K.Trenfor from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/ZQbNGL0 via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons. - Chuck Palahniuk from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/ZQbNGL0 via IFTTT

Robert Benchley

"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/YH73hmc via IFTTT

John Green

"That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/I6jRbcw via IFTTT

Oscar Wilde

"We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/twGnbDv via IFTTT

Thomas Merton

"The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/qvMEHoL via IFTTT

Josh Billings

"The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/ntEw1Ix via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

I think of the learning process of an undulation of deep learning and periods of surfacing and reflection. - Josh Waitzkin from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/zBrjbc2 via IFTTT

Francis Thompson

"In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/QdDYWyH via IFTTT

Paul Valery

"Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/JmfWZtA via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed. - Marva Collins from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/zBrjbc2 via IFTTT

W. Somerset Maugham

"It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/eWbh3dv via IFTTT

Max Frisch

"Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/hzQS92Y via IFTTT

Bette Davis

"My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/mjxXy2J via IFTTT

Carlos A. Urbizo

"Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/JNMm0dj via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

It is said, in a fire, everyone runs away from it save for the fireman who run towards it. When dealing with students, be the fireman. - Patricia Sequeira Belvel from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/4m6aNuH via IFTTT

George Washington

"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/VMzUZPQ via IFTTT

Woody Allen

"Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/dwkUYiV via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it - Allan Bloom from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/4m6aNuH via IFTTT

Stephen King

"You must not come lightly to the blank page." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/ULW2uIx via IFTTT

Lois McMaster Bujold

"You try to give away what you want yourself." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/4pnzjRN via IFTTT

Mary Howitt

"For visions come not to polluted eyes." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/Hj106VZ via IFTTT

Dorothy L. Sayers

"Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/1yAxmVd via IFTTT

Euripides

"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/Afq0Ewo via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

Mr. Klamp laid down the law. No tardiness, no talking above 40 decibels, no untied shoelaces, no visible undergarments, no eating, no chewing gum, no chewing tobacco, no chewing betel nuts, no chewing coca leaves, no chewing out students (unless Mr. Klamp was doing the chewing out), no chewing out teachers (unless ditto), no unnecessary displays of temper (unless ditto), no unnecessary displays of affection (no exceptions), no pets over one ounce or under one ton, and no singing, except in Bulgarian. I began to think Mr Klamp wouldn't be so bad.. - Polly Shulman from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/i9yPrBU via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile! - Richard Feynman from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/i9yPrBU via IFTTT

Alice Koller

"I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/4vm8k9G via IFTTT

Voltaire

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/NL1nzQ0 via IFTTT

Quote of the day about life - They Said So

Well the beauty of 'Iyanla: Fix My Life' is that men are in every show. To our surprise, some of the deepest healing demonstrations have been with the men - the sons, the fathers, the husbands - because they agree to participate with the wife or the daughter or whatever it is we are looking at, and it is there. - Iyanla Vanzant from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/vLJxni1 via IFTTT

Funny Quote of the day - They Said So

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down. - Robert Orben from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/bwnpxyg via IFTTT

Quote of the day about Love - They Said So

Physical presence provides chemical, relational, psychological and physiological effects that virtual relationships cannot. Our brains change in the presence of another person and their behavior. - Henry Cloud from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/JinXoxZ via IFTTT

Art quote of the day - They Said So

Rules and models destroy genius and art. - William Hazlitt from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/quvgsm9 via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

I must endure, fighting the temptation simply to become slack-jawed like most of my school 'peers' (they wish!), who will themselves into a collective, vacant, trancelike state for the duration of each class. (Although I sometimes secretly envy their ability to empty their minds completely for a full fifty minutes, reanimating only at the sound of a bell, like Pavlov's dogs..) - Beth Fantaskey from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/BfJ3Hl9 via IFTTT

Earl Warren

"I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'" from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/6WIjYZ2 via IFTTT

Don Marquis

"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/UreEd9x via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration. - William Lyon Phelps from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/BfJ3Hl9 via IFTTT

John Le Carre

"Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/yaM9lCY via IFTTT

Chinese Proverb

"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/coLaF0f via IFTTT

Hippocrates

"Walking is man's best medicine." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/MAWSYsV via IFTTT

Tom Stoppard

"It is better to be quotable than to be honest." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/UcIOqGP via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

Instead of making prisoners out of our students, we ought to make students out of our prisoners. - Paul W. Silver from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/hpP6JlL via IFTTT

Mark Russell

"The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/BGuSxzv via IFTTT

Alan Moore

"Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/nygoFDV via IFTTT

Norah Jones

"If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/aKDsIic via IFTTT

Jonathan Winters

"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!" from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/tkryEOH via IFTTT

Thomas Jefferson

"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/lxyrNR0 via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time. - Robertson Davies from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/1azTbtS via IFTTT

Garry Shandling

"I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/iQJS4IM via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

By the time these students enter the workforce, many of the jobs they will apply for ill be in industries that don't even exist yet. That's a hard future to prepare someone for. Teachers have their sights set on the real goal: not to produce Ivy League graduates, but to encourage the development of naturally curious, confident, flexible, and happy learners who are ready for whatever the future has in store. - Taylor Mali from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/1azTbtS via IFTTT

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

"It has all been very interesting." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/JRsEc6z via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

In my day the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning. Learning was something you did only when the first three weren't available. - Bill Bryson from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/bKcO0Ll via IFTTT

John Burroughs

"The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/d05q6BV via IFTTT

Jules Feiffer

"Maturity is only a short break in adolescence." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/BnNiGJ5 via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

The only real job of a teacher, especially a writing teacher, is to help students find themselves. - Derrick Jensen from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/bKcO0Ll via IFTTT

Seneca

"Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/dkZ4KRm via IFTTT

Edgard Varese

"Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/sdMBqn5 via IFTTT

Mark Twain

"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/xtNMv3b via IFTTT

Ayn Rand

"The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/Xmzv32T via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers? - Criss Jami from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/5fAZ43r via IFTTT

Robert Browning

"A minute's success pays the failure of years." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/PYSp0Ae via IFTTT

Helen Rowland

"The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/CpnPQ0E via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

The best teachers become the best teachers by being their own best students. - Laurie Gray from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/5fAZ43r via IFTTT

Unknown

"All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/ETmzUyi via IFTTT

Ancient Proverb

"Good habits result from resisting temptation." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/BdI87Dp via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

Teachers knew every one of the students, their secrets, their grades, their home situations. And all the students knew the teachers. It was like teachers were people who finally were the most popular at school. - Victoria Kahler from Quote of the day - They Said So https://ift.tt/uiXFVth via IFTTT