Alice Moore Hubbard Quotes

Teaching is successful only as it causes people to think for themselves. What the teacher thinks matters little; what he makes the child think matters much.

Alice Moore Hubbard

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• As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Long
  • Live
  • Day

• A really irritating thing when you're watching a film is if somebody's accent isn't bang-on - it distracts you from getting into the story because you're thinking: 'Where are they from?'

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Thinking
  • Film
  • Story

• When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Look
  • Civilization
  • Pool

• I went to Briar Cliff College initially, and then I transferred to Georgetown University, because I was a Russian major, and I was one of two girls accepted that year. This was September 1969 - well, that would have been 1970 - into the School Of Languages And Linguistics in Georgetown.

  

  P. J. Soles
  • School
  • College
  • Year

• My introduction to the Madonna Inn came as a young boy when we would take summer vacations to a nearby town. My dad would take us into their gift shop bathroom, which was a huge waterfall that functioned as the men's urinal. So as a kid, this was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • Men
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • God
  • Like
  • Sun

• Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• Being a conservative in Hollywood is like walking into a shooting range with a bull's-eye attached to your body. There are more of us than you would believe, but if you want to keep working, you feel like you have to keep quiet.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Believe
  • Want
  • Walking

• War is the greatest failure of mankind.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • War
  • Failure
  • Greatest

• While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Capitalism
  • Injustice

• A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.

  

  Early Wynn
  • Never
  • Big
  • Winner

• Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Nature
  • Spring
  • Silly

• I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Life
  • City
  • Simple

• I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Thinking
  • Happy
  • Career

• I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Injuries
  • Sprint
  • Weights

• We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • American
  • Education
  • Best

• An employee who's one of hundreds, rather than one of a few, is unlikely to feel personally responsible for helping the organization adapt and change.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Change
  • Organization
  • Adapt

• To be honest, after you've crossed the line at the Olympic Games, it is bedlam for the next, about, five or six hours. Media, press conference, dope control - you might get some food if you're lucky. You might see family if you're lucky.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Family
  • Food
  • Control

• With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting effective teaching in every classroom, charting a path to college and careers for all students, and developing the tools to help all children stay motivated and engaged in their own education. The more states that adopt these college and career based standards, the closer we will be to sharing innovation across state borders and becoming more competitive as a country.

  

  Bill Gates
  • College
  • Teaching
  • Students

• I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

  

  Judy Collins
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Earth

• Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Soul
  • Beauty
  • Tears

• Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Peace
  • Prosperity

• Teaching is successful only as it causes people to think for themselves. What the teacher thinks matters little; what he makes the child think matters much.

  

  Alice Moore Hubbard
  • Think
  • Matter
  • Teaching