Heidi Hayes Jacobs Quotes
As educators, we are only as effective as what we know. If we have no working knowledge of what students studied in previous years, how can we build on their learning? If we have no insight into the curriculum in later grades, how can we prepare learners for future classes?
Quotes to Explore
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
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We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there.
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The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
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We allowed ourselves to become particularly interested in research into the appearance of intermediate products of sugar decomposition during cell-free fermentation.
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There's a lot of things in life that we don't know why they're coming exactly at this moment.
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Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects.
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Offence is no longer defence - it's a full-time profession. Everyone is so offended all the time. The new police force that we weren't told about: the moral police. No qualifications, no training, no understanding of actual morality, but they have a degree in the art of being offended.
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For me, it's all about smaller character-driven pieces, about finding a person that I connect with and that I'm interested in bringing to life.
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Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.
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I have known that I wanted to be a designer since I was 8 years old.
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None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction - they're always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.
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Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?
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Hell is paved with good intentions.
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Chaos, rudis indigestaque moles.
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Christ may have lost his faith for a few seconds; He did not sell it in the marketplace for the trinkets of ego and curiosity.
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'McCarthyism' means pointing out positions taken by liberals that are unpopular with the American people. As former President Bush said, 'Liberals do not like me talking about liberals.' The reason they sob about the dark night of fascism under McCarthy is to prevent Americans from ever noticing that liberals consistently attack their own country.
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I know I can be bolshy and really unpleasant, and it always happens if I lose confidence in the people I'm working with. If I've got no confidence in what I'm doing and they don't provide me with some assurance that we're doing the right thing then I bully people. I'm a horrible bully.
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I think sometimes the fashion world isn't even about clothes anymore; it's about this 'in' crowd, and I'm not into that.
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I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind's and God's.
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Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization?
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As educators, we are only as effective as what we know. If we have no working knowledge of what students studied in previous years, how can we build on their learning? If we have no insight into the curriculum in later grades, how can we prepare learners for future classes?
