Wendy Kopp Quotes
People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people.Wendy Kopp
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
Sadhu Vaswani -
Ozzy has dyslexia.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
Wayne Rooney -
If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
Salman Rushdie -
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Abraham Lincoln -
I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
Zac Efron
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
Rachel Field -
Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
Magdi Yacoub -
There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you're shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.
Gail Collins -
No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
Nathan Fillion -
Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
Oleg Cassini -
Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
Adam Grant
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
Dan Gilbert -
Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
Marc Almond Soft Cell -
When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
Adam Hasner -
I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
Jackson Browne -
The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.
Jack Buck -
My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?
Arthur Daniel Miller
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We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh -
I like to read and listen to music and go for walks and travel and see art. I enjoy cooking and eating and spending time with my family. I don't really find myself searching for things on the television very much.
James Spader -
It was astonishing that for some considerable distance around the mould growth the staphococcal colonies were undergoing lysis. What had formerly been a well-grown colony was now a faint shadow of its former self...I was sufficiently interested to pursue the subject.
Alexander Acosta -
Any obsession is dangerous.
Christina Ricci -
I wanna make stuff that sonically sounds really good. I don't wanna make a song about how people think I'm this when I'm really that. I don't wanna make a song about how I grew up broke.
Natassia Gail Zolot -
People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people.
Wendy Kopp