Eleanor Duckworth Quotes

Teachers are often, and understandably, impatient for their students to develop clear and adequate ideas. But putting ideas in relation to each other isn't a simple job. It's confusing and this confusion does take time. All of us need time for our confusion if we are to build the breadth and depth that give significance to our knowledge.

Eleanor Duckworth

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• There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Man
  • Humor

• There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Power
  • Question
  • Humanity

• I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.

  

  Lamar Hunt
  • Why
  • Growing
  • Question

• I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Pretty
  • Funny
  • Dad

• Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Important
  • Movie
  • Curiosity

• The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.

  

  Jack Palance
  • Greed
  • Depend
  • Gravity

• My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • God
  • Myself
  • Forever

• I'm not really that interested in going back to playing small supporting roles.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Small
  • Back
  • Going

• It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and the heroes just kind of come along for the ride.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Ride

• For decades, my research was driven by outstanding problems in macroeconomics: mainly growth theory and employment theory.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Growth
  • Problems
  • Research

• Nothing in my songs is disrespective.

  

  Teddy Pendergrass
  • Songs
  • Nothing

• Two prominent terms, 'Latino' and 'Hispanic,' refer to people living in the United States who have roots in Latin America, Spain, Mexico, South America, or Spanish-speaking Caribbean countries.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • People
  • America
  • Spanish

• I think several generations of my family had novels in the drawer. You know the montage in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' where each character has produced some sort of minor work? It was like having a magician in the household.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Work
  • Family
  • Character

• A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • America
  • House
  • Giving

• Chances are if I am the one to cosign people, they will become a big part of the industry.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Industry
  • Cosign

• The truth of the matter is being gay is the way I was born. I believe this to the core of my being.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Gay

• 'After my election, I have more flexibility', spoken March 26, 2012 to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev while in Korea.

  

  Barack Obama
  • March

• I was a teenager in the '80s, and I was always a bit dismissive of Houston, as I think a lot of people who considered themselves 'cool music fans' were. She was poppy, bubble gum, making music not considered very cool. But you can't help but dance to some of those songs or feel emotionally affected by 'I Will Always Love You.'

  

  Kevin Macdonald
  • People
  • Music
  • She

• I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for.

  

  Brian Lamb
  • Party

• There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you forever.

  

  Kenny Rogers
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• You have to have access to ideas. The Internet is facilitating that access to ideas. In 25 years, the way that data's going to flow back and forth, we don't quite understand yet.

  

  Michael Nesmith The Monkees
  • Ideas
  • Access

• My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Feeling
  • Military
  • Last

• Teachers are often, and understandably, impatient for their students to develop clear and adequate ideas. But putting ideas in relation to each other isn't a simple job. It's confusing and this confusion does take time. All of us need time for our confusion if we are to build the breadth and depth that give significance to our knowledge.

  

  Eleanor Duckworth
  • Job
  • Knowledge
  • Ideas