Bel Kaufman Quotes

I am writing this during my free . . . oops! un-assigned period, at the end of my first day of teaching. So far, I have taught nothing — but I have learned a great deal. To wit: We have to punch a time clock and abide by the Rules. We must make sure our students likewise abide, and that they sign the time sheet whenever they leave or reenter a room. We have keys but no locks (except in lavatories), blackboards but no chalk, students but no seats, teachers but no time to teach. The library is closed to the students.

Bel Kaufman

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• A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Good
  • Successful
  • Plan

• I never thought about having a daughter, and then I had a daughter, and it was a remarkable thing. It was very different from having a son and your response to it. With a son, it's much more complex. And it's probably because of my stuff in the past. With a daughter, I was surprised at how simple it is.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Different
  • Past
  • Simple

• R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Been
  • Nobody
  • Through

• I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Long
  • Hair
  • Look

• Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • History
  • Reading
  • Philosophy

• But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Die

• A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Mind
  • Hand
  • Logic

• I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Think
  • New
  • Building

• The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • You
  • Mistakes
  • Desperate

• A barrier for me – which has been both a strength and a weakness – has been my taste. The kind of things I'm interested in aren't always mainstream.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Me
  • Strength
  • Interested

• If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Effort
  • Thoughts
  • Thought

• I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!

  

  Imani Hakim
  • Different
  • Myself
  • Challenge

• Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Life
  • High
  • Sports

• Ironically, I wouldn't say I'm a massive horror fan. I love thrillers.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Say
  • Fan
  • Horror

• My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was going on in the invisible world, the survival of the consciousness, precipitated paintings, mediumship, and trans-channeling.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • World
  • Great
  • Survival

• The lack of diversity in higher education is a problem we as a country must tackle if we're going to live up to our promise.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
  • Live
  • Country

• A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • History
  • Game
  • Team

• I always look at actresses who I most respect, and they make me think that you can make a choice in life. It's whether or not you choose to go down the route of publicising your personal life. I choose not to.

  

  Vanessa Kirby
  • Life
  • Respect

• I like a set to be a happy place, where people can feel free to experiment.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Happy
  • Free

• Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Guy
  • Paint

• I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • People
  • Education
  • Eyes

• The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Myself

• I am writing this during my free . . . oops! un-assigned period, at the end of my first day of teaching. So far, I have taught nothing — but I have learned a great deal. To wit: We have to punch a time clock and abide by the Rules. We must make sure our students likewise abide, and that they sign the time sheet whenever they leave or reenter a room. We have keys but no locks (except in lavatories), blackboards but no chalk, students but no seats, teachers but no time to teach. The library is closed to the students.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Writing
  • Free
  • Learned