Richard Louv Quotes
Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
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My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.
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I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
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When leaders throughout an organization take an active, genuine interest in the people they manage, when they invest real time to understand employees at a fundamental level, they create a climate for greater morale, loyalty, and, yes, growth.
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What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
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Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people are forgotten.
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It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.
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I don't do drugs. I never have taken any drugs. I don't believe in them.
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You break it, you own it.
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We need to transform our rural areas, restore the land to its rightful owners, and significantly grow our agricultural output.
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To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin'.
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Politics and more politics - that's how you work towards the building of agreements.
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I don't email.
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I'm unconventional and eccentric and talk things out, and it seemed that the person I married - maybe in reaction - got quieter and more conventional over time. It felt as if we were putting each other in a straitjacket.
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He would use amphetamines to stay awake because he would have late night maneuvers that would go way into the early morning hours and he was given pills to stay up for the long hours.
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Stockholm is surely an urban planner's dream. Everything works. Everything looks good.
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There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.
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He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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There's only so often you're going to have an opportunity to contribute at a high level and that you should be grateful whenever one presents itself and not take it lightly.
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Romania doesn't have a big tradition of gymnastics as a fun activity. We were a little behind in this aspect.
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'Triple Agent' is a different kind of read because it is, at its core, a pure narrative, the story of an intelligence operation that unfolds over the course of a year and then goes badly wrong. There's a lot of 'news' in the book, including an account of drone warfare that is as detailed, in my humble opinion, as any in the open-source arena.
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Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity.
