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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 They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/E6rWz1Z via IFTTT

Howard Newton

"People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/bZIpgED via IFTTT

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

"The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/qcD1d28 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 They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/E6rWz1Z via IFTTT

Erica Jong

"If you don't risk anything you risk even more." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/GxSFDRC via IFTTT

Kilgore Trout

"The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/RtXVvwr 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 They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/hG91XvR via IFTTT

Mickey Rooney

"You always pass failure on the way to success." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/CrQ3fyI via IFTTT

Samuel Goldwyn

"I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/K6asDQ4 via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught. - Henry Adams from They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/qEtoUue via IFTTT

Ronald Reagan

"You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/fe3QvA5 via IFTTT

Brock Clarke

"Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/KiNXrEf via IFTTT

Marlene Dietrich

"Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/mEGSF7A via IFTTT

Robin Williams

"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/qRmtyAf via IFTTT

W. Somerset Maugham

"Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/bSzZo6y 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 They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/0Tpn8YV via IFTTT

Theodore Roosevelt

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/WDPHruB via IFTTT

Olin Miller

"You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/zZSLo3d via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

The purpose of school should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now. - Donalyn Miller from They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/0Tpn8YV via IFTTT

George Carlin

"Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/dzpGhYU via IFTTT

Edith Wharton

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/BbAQgRn 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 They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/pjIxut5 via IFTTT

Vincent Canby

"We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/OsM39ol via IFTTT

Ayn Rand

"I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/pJhAsGD via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

Do you want to achieve something or do you just want to make money? Asked a nearby man in a white shirt to another man in a striped shirt. I waited for the answer as I slowly walked past them. Why is it an either or question? The man in the striped shirt finally murmured philosophically under a sip of beer. They both stood there looking at each other in thought. - Daniel Amory from They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/yzURGVK via IFTTT

Rainer Maria Rilke

"For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/LsA4Dev via IFTTT

Dale Carnegie

"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/r0VtGeh 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 They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/yzURGVK via IFTTT

Baltasar Gracian

"The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/6GZVPEO via IFTTT

Robert E. Lee

"It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/85YpgfA 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 They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/3TDEjbZ via IFTTT

Jef Raskin

"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/hZE1FcQ via IFTTT

Robert Fripp

"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/lHMRIoO via IFTTT

Quote of the day for students - They Said So

Rejection is an opportunity for your selection. - Bernard Branson from They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/Tecg2J7 via IFTTT

Emiliano Zapata

"It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/pra6Ad4 via IFTTT

Woody Allen

"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/JNfABrO 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 They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/ODXQToa via IFTTT

Etty Hillesum

"We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/WiPJ9sN via IFTTT

Friedrich Nietzsche

"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!" from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/Uf3K1L5 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 They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/ODXQToa via IFTTT

Willa Cather

"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/Os0ED8J via IFTTT

Muhammad Ali

"There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/4vJGbBC via IFTTT

Art Quote of the day - They Said So

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public. - Paul Gauguin from They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/o6j2GJS via IFTTT

Colette

"Total absence of humor renders life impossible." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/Z79UyW1 via IFTTT

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"When ideas fail, words come in very handy." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/Hq4x9Bf 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 They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/dAxSbsN via IFTTT

Albert Camus

"Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/6xyflTp via IFTTT

Oscar Levant

"I am no more humble than my talents require." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/exhoVXR 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 They Said So Quote of the day https://ift.tt/dAxSbsN via IFTTT

Jean Paul Richter

"Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/ixQDPsg via IFTTT

James Thurber

"You can fool too many of the people too much of the time." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/LWm5w6x via IFTTT

David Assael

"We're not talking about historical accuracy, we're talking about art. I've set in motion a geometric inevitability. If I start chiseling there, chipping here, the whole form is compromised." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/bY05AOl via IFTTT

Alan Corenk

"Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/znPcKFQ via IFTTT

Joseph Conrad

"Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/NEiT6LV via IFTTT

John Kenneth Galbraith

"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/ONYMZ5R via IFTTT

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

"If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/ucnrfmM via IFTTT

Bertrand Russell

"Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/9Yj6Bzc via IFTTT

M. C. Escher

"He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/nAUBupN via IFTTT

W. Somerset Maugham

"It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/PGrpdat via IFTTT

William Shakespeare

"Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/Zmk1Xv4 via IFTTT

Voltaire

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/nxfwH8E via IFTTT

Bertha Calloway

"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/1N0SuCc via IFTTT

Amy Carter

"No." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/30OcMk9 via IFTTT

Benjamin Disraeli

"I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/WyojgXw via IFTTT

Robert Frost

"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/m19yGAt via IFTTT

Wendy Wasserstein

"No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/8uRAQxC via IFTTT

Unknown

"Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/Irq3AFu via IFTTT

Peter McWilliams

"Resentment is anger directed at others--at what they did or did not do." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/GnpyPQz via IFTTT

Oscar Levant

"Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/ATcpiko via IFTTT

Noel Coward

"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/lt4FPBQ via IFTTT

Mary S. Calderone

"I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/x3fjCop 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/Yg1MxhE via IFTTT

Michael Pritchard

"Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/4SNBJWr via IFTTT

Robert Graves

"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/ZK29AY0 via IFTTT

Patricia Russell-McCloud

"Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/lkXNmSB via IFTTT

Thomas Szasz

"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/oS2xyr6 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/vfpKte2 via IFTTT

Sir Francis Bacon

"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/p7sHkwL via IFTTT

Robert Benchley

"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/ih5YVlW via IFTTT

Charles Buxton

"To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/iFU1m9R 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/YWD3ri5 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/YWD3ri5 via IFTTT

Juvenal

"Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends." from Motivational Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/pdtwEOq via IFTTT

Bertrand Russell

"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." from Quotes of the Day https://ift.tt/JGRK9kP via IFTTT