Boyd K. Packer Quotes
Punctuality is an essential trait of the teacher. It is a foundation, not an embellishment.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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I don't let anything kill my spirit.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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Moving to L.A. when I was 11 was when my entrepreneurialism started because it's the land of the American dream.
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A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
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Life stuff happens. You get knocked down, and you get back up. That's just always been my mentality. I'm not really fazed by anything. It's in the past. There's nothing I can really do about it now. You learn from it, and you move on.
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I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.
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Place honey on the altars and die, You lovers that are bitter at heart.
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There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.
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In addition to the vehicles currently known, the holy grail of commercial spaceflight remains a single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) reusable spaceplane.
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I can't even consider the prospect of grandchildren because I don't know if there will be anything left for them on Earth. That's how serious the problem is. We can't drink the water or breathe the air, and we're all dying from some sort of cancer. How many generations can sustain that? It frightens me terribly.
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The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.
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With new jobs, new ideas, and growing confidence that our brightest days lie ahead, Wisconsin is on the move.
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George Hamilton is one of the funniest men I have ever known.
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Success without happiness is failure.
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Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself.
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A wonderful acting teacher I love, Josh Pais, has a system I love for being in the moment in acting, but also in life. And one of the things he reminds me of is to take a moment and just be here now.
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The best teacher is an entertainer.
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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.
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Punctuality is an essential trait of the teacher. It is a foundation, not an embellishment.
