Rachel Simmons Quotes

Classroom discussion is where you learn how to debate an idea and stick with an opinion, even when others don't agree - and not take it personally, either.

Rachel Simmons

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• I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Friends
  • History

• I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Way
  • Tools
  • Depend

• Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'

  

  Jack Davenport
  • People
  • Movie
  • Star

• I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Love
  • Cooking
  • Gardening

• I've always fought as a heavyweight, and I didn't see any reason to fight at a lighter weight.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Always
  • Fight
  • See

• It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Good
  • Yourself
  • Skin

• Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Up
  • Women
  • Education

• For skincare, I'm a Clean and Clear girl. Especially with the humidity in Georgia, Clean and Clear has been pretty good to me with all of the makeup we have to wear. My skin really responds to that product. I'm also a big fan of Kiehl's under-eye avocado cream.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

  

  Cao Cao
  • World
  • Me
  • Rather

• Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • Creative

• Writers are so important.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Important
  • Writers

• I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • World
  • Dream
  • Team

• You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Worry
  • Numbers
  • Repetition

• I connect with people on a daily basis.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Daily
  • Connect

• It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human beings. I'm all for being brainwashed by rom-coms.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Nice
  • Movies
  • Being

• Although I have lived in Manhattan since 1992, for the better part of two decades I have remained in blissful oblivion of all matters sportif.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Better
  • Two
  • Matters

• I'm trying to make sense of lot of things with 'Tyrannosaur.' I'm trying to make sense of people who've left now. They're not here, they can't answer for themselves any more, they're gone. And I'm trying to make peace with those ghosts.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Trying
  • Peace

• I know, in so many cases, a lot of the women who came up through the singer-songwriter, Lilith Fair era, the earlier Lilith Fair era, did say that we were influences on them.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Women
  • Singer-songwriter
  • Came Up

• Regardless of who is elected president in 2016, we all still live together. Each of us has a different role to play, but we all have to hold the collective space for movement-building together. It's the only way we move forward.

  

  Pramila Jayapal
  • Different
  • Live
  • Together

• Lest men suspect your tale untrue,Keep probability in view.

  

  John Gay
  • Men

• If it's a question about stuff that matters to you personally, like favorite food, favorite piece of knowledge, favorite animal, it's hard not to have an opinion and want to quantify things.

  

  Adam Richman
  • Knowledge
  • Food
  • Question

• If two people have the same opinion, one is unnecessary. ... I don't want to talk, to communicate, with someone who agrees with me; I want to communicate with you because you see it differently. I value that difference.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Opinion
  • Values
  • Communicate

• Classroom discussion is where you learn how to debate an idea and stick with an opinion, even when others don't agree - and not take it personally, either.

  

  Rachel Simmons
  • Opinion
  • Debate
  • Discussion