Michael Morpurgo Quotes
Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.
Quotes to Explore
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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We really accomplished what we set out to do with the Recovery Act programs, which was to fill the lending gap created by the crisis.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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I'm very competitive, and I want to win.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.
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I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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One of my major objectives is to build a long-term enterprise, to build shareholder value over time.
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Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.
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I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best.
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Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.
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If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
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I'm going to write a book, continue acting, continue motivational speaking and just share with people who I am and what I've learned in my second chance of life and pass it on to people in their first chance of life.
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But if God does not give us children, knowing as He does how thankful we should be for them, it is surely because He has some good reason for it. Perhaps there are now in the world some fatherless and motherless little ones that He is saving for us till we can afford to take them.
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When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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Smart companies fail because they do everything right. They cater to high-profit-margin customers and ignore the low end of the market, where disruptive innovations emerge from.
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Take care to make things turn out well. Some people scruple more over pointing things in the right direction than over successfully reaching their goals. The disgrace of failure outweighs the diligence they showed. A winner is never asked for explanations.
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Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.
