Andy Hargreaves Quotes

A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it.

Andy Hargreaves

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• Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

• There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Interesting
  • Face
  • Landscape

• But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Good
  • Eyes
  • Media

• If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • World
  • Career
  • Thoughts

• I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Time
  • Love
  • Movie

• When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Life
  • Child
  • My Life

• I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • People
  • Home
  • Think

• The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.

  

  Garrett Graff
  • Positive
  • Influence
  • Media

• I don't aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Up
  • Interesting
  • Try

• People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Music
  • Way

• I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Want
  • Because
  • Patient

• I did everything in my power to give my brokers brand identity and clout in the market. I saw my job as parent to build them up and if I took care of them, then they would take care of their customer.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Up
  • Job
  • Power

• I would never shoot down any opportunity to challenge myself or stretch myself.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Opportunity
  • Myself
  • Challenge

• I figured, 'Why not go into entertainment?' I love entertaining people. I always loved being extra loud.

  

  Becky G
  • People
  • Loved
  • Loud

• Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Power
  • Man
  • Slavery

• When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I knew it was ruining my career at the time.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Time
  • Career
  • Being Pregnant

• The Peruvian faces are completely different from that faces in Argentina and in Brazil.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Different
  • Faces
  • Brazil

• A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Peace
  • Always
  • Difficult

• The book of 'The Hobbit' was given to me to read by a friend of my mother when I was about 12 years old: it set my life on a different path. Next, I read 'The Lord of The Rings' trilogy, then 'The Silmarillion' and Homers 'The Odyssey' and every Greek/Roman/Viking myth book I could get my hands on. Pretty heavy reading for a 12 year old.

  

  Conan Stevens
  • Life
  • Different
  • Book

• I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious. I stayed for lunch for extra tutoring, gave kids my cell phone, and was available. In my first year of teaching, I ended up doubling the math time that a conventional school would have. But I don't think any of these things were path-breaking or unusual.

  

  Angela Duckworth
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• We care about margins.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Care
  • About
  • Margins

• Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Life
  • Success

• My teammates tell me to shoot the ball when I'm open. I feel like I'm open most of the time, so I shoot it.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Time
  • Me
  • Teammates

• A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it.

  

  Andy Hargreaves
  • School
  • Powers
  • Capacities