William Glasser Quotes
To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, we try to force them to do what they do not find satisfying.
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
Carine Roitfeld
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
A. Philip Randolph
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
Eddie Izzard
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I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.
Gabriella Wilde
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We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.
Adam Mansbach
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I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.
Natalia Vodianova
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
Abraham Cahan
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
Patricia Heaton
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
Salman Rushdie
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
Ian MacKaye
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Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.
Ville Valo HIM
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
Yul Brynner
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Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
Caitlin Moran
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Samsung has drastically altered the rule that big screens mean huge phones. Even this smaller of the new Galaxy S models has a larger screen than the biggest iPhone, but it's much narrower and easier to hold and to slip into a pocket.
Walt Mossberg
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For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.
Origen
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
Zoe Kazan
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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
Oscar Wilde
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Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.
Kate Brown
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A lot of people don't like to win. They actually don't know how to win, and they don't like to win because down deep inside they don't want to win.
Donald Trump
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As with the government failures that made 9/11 possible, neglecting to prevent the crash of '08 was a sin of omission - less the result of deregulation per se than of disbelief in financial regulation as a legitimate mechanism.
Jacob Weisberg
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We have become more and more not a nation of athletes but a nation of spectators.
John F. Kennedy
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I feel sorry for anybody that could let hate wrap them up. Ain't no such thing as I can hate anybody and hope to see God's face.
Fannie Lou Hamer
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People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening.
Daphne Zuniga
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To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, we try to force them to do what they do not find satisfying.
William Glasser