Paul Goodman Quotes

A good teacher feels his way, looking for response.

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• Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Important
  • Giving
  • Way

• My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • God
  • School

• In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Way
  • Become
  • Reputation

• The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Friends
  • Way
  • Gossip

• There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Good
  • Teacher
  • Good Teacher

• I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Way
  • Listening
  • Blow

• I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Money
  • Way
  • Others

• Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Book
  • Remember

• Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Way
  • Writer
  • Own

• Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Way
  • Government
  • Best

• I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Way
  • Player
  • Guitar

• I started gigging when I was about 16, and I was way too young to be in the clubs.

  

  Imelda May
  • Way
  • Young
  • Started

• Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Believe

• That's what everyone said attracted them to Lantana - I call it an adult mystery, because it's not a thriller in the sense of that other way, but it is a mystery.

  

  Barbara Hershey
  • Way
  • Said
  • Mystery

• If you're not in a major city, many bands don't come your way, and you have to really travel to see them.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Way
  • City
  • Travel

• I started off wanting one husband and seven children, but it ended up the other way around.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Up
  • Children
  • Way

• I just want to continue the way I am going.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Want
  • Way
  • Continue

• The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Way
  • Ideas
  • Falsehood

• Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it’s what the learner learns.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Teacher
  • Remind
  • Educators

• People—wondered why such miracles no longer happened. Augustine had a witty response: “I might, indeed, reply that miracles were necessary before the world believed, in order that it might believe. And whoever now-a-days demands to see prodigies that he may believe, is himself a great prodigy, because he does not believe, though the whole world does.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Believe
  • Response
  • Miracles

• The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for originality, but who realizes the value of artistic tradition.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Men
  • Value
  • Deep

• I like playing an array of different roles. From the fun, comedic roles to the serious roles. It's always fun to play the role that either closely represents your own personality or the role that is completely opposite of yourself.

  

  Manika
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Serious

• A good teacher feels his way, looking for response.

  

  Paul Goodman
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