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.
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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.
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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.
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I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.
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I moved out when I was 17 to get away from a pretty tough and difficult family environment.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
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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.
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I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.
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Improving small business opportunities through federal contracts creates jobs and saves taxpayer money.
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You've got to be yourself, and if you're not, you're a phony. It comes shining through if you're not careful.
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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
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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.'
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It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
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I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors.
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It is only the sacred things that are worth touching.
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I never wanted fame.
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I don't look at our society today too much. My focus is still in the past, and part of the reason is because what I do - the wellspring of art, or what I do - l get from the blues. So I listen to the music of a particular period that I'm working on, and I think inside the music is clues to what is happening with the people.
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We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
