William Glasser Quotes

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

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• North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Men
  • Country
  • Man

• It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Want
  • Problem
  • Complexity

• I'm just a Connecticut country boy. The people I've known, the changes of season, the call of the blue jay - when I'm away, all of them haunt me.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • People
  • Country
  • Boy

• I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Better

• I moved out when I was 17 to get away from a pretty tough and difficult family environment.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Environment

• If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Words

• I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of taste and sensation, reconfiguring food as a series of really intense hits on the tongue.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Food
  • Down
  • Tongue

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Society
  • Teacher
  • Humility

• There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • People
  • Now
  • Collaboration

• If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Forest
  • Tongue

• It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

  

  Quintilian
  • Mind
  • Effort
  • Teacher

• I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Great
  • War
  • Civil War

• Improving small business opportunities through federal contracts creates jobs and saves taxpayer money.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Money
  • Business
  • Small

• You've got to be yourself, and if you're not, you're a phony. It comes shining through if you're not careful.

  

  Jack Harbaugh
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Be Yourself

• I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Democracy
  • Enjoy
  • Confess

• Some people look at movies and think, 'Oh my gosh, that's so amazing.' But to me, I look at a politician or a scientist and think, 'They're creating the content of humanity.'

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Humanity

• It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Help
  • Beautiful

• Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.

  

  Wei Jingsheng
  • Democracy
  • Force
  • Conditions

• I make it a point not to buy certain magazines, not because I am against tabloids or things like that, but I want to fill my mind with valid issues in the world.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • World
  • Mind
  • Values

• Everyone in New York is fluid and thinking and inspiring each other.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Thinking
  • New York
  • Everyone

• BP found itself in a difficult situation after the tragic events in the Gulf of Mexico. We did everything we could to support it. Britain is interested in this, isn't it? I think it is. The same is true of other areas.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Thinking
  • Support
  • Difficult

• Maybe sincerity is the new punk. But to me, I think I have to connect with something emotionally, on some level, or I don't care about it. And if I don't care about it, then I don't think anyone listening to it will, either.

  

  Chris Cornell Audioslave
  • Thinking
  • Care
  • Listening

• We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

  

  William Glasser
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Focus