Eliot Wigginton Quotes

Teaching is too vital an occupation to be left to the lazy or greedy or negative.

Eliot Wigginton

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• As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Community
  • Support
  • City

• I knew that I tend to always gravitate to the indie side of things.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Always
  • Things
  • Indie

• I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Military
  • Find
  • Falling

• During that year at Harvard learning with Carl Steinitz, I had the feeling that I was drinking knowledge out of a fire hose. I learned more in that year than I had learned in the previous ten years of my education.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Feeling
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Music
  • Always
  • Try

• When I moved in, I said, 'I don't care how this makes me look or sound: I am converting one of these bedrooms into a shoe closet.' It's become more of a dressing room, but one wall is shoes in their perfect cubbies.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Dressing
  • Shoe
  • Closet

• Volunteering is a great way to look outside your own problems. Giving back to makes you happier by both giving you a sense of purpose and helping to put your problems in perspective.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Great
  • Giving
  • Purpose

• It was a double jolt for me. The jolt of seeing my father slowly die, the jolt of knowing that I was diabetic and could meet the same fate if I didn't take care of myself.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Father
  • Die
  • Myself

• I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Democracy
  • Enjoy
  • Confess

• I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Important
  • Failure
  • New

• Christians have no greater ally than Israel.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Israel
  • Christians
  • Greater

• It really is a dream coming true, being on Billboard.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • True
  • Dream
  • Coming

• If I came across a role that is completely mainstream and commercial, but it's the right one, I'd jump at the chance.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Chance
  • Jump
  • Role

• He has pledged every assistance from the Iraqi government.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Government
  • Assistance
  • Iraqi

• The mentality has taken over because of the way we've promoted things. It's been accepted, to live with fear, and to fear that it's going to be terrible, prepare for the worst. The meat and potato of our existence right now is influenced by what happened after 9/11 - we put our thinking into protecting borders.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Fear

• The music industry was invented, like, 100 years ago. I'm talking about the goddess Matangi, who invented music 5,000 years ago. She was the only thing that inspired me.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Music
  • She
  • Inspired

• Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Art
  • Political

• I believe that we have better ideas. But I also believe that good ideas don't matter if people don't hear them.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• Jazz, I mean, music will always move, because it can't become stagnant. Because if it becomes stagnant, it's like a river, it'll kill us all. It has to keep moving, music will always flow.

  

  Art Blakey
  • Music
  • Moving
  • River

• It's very important for any artist, in any field, to take their own temperature and check out their own energy, and see what it is they ought to be doing to keep the energy up. Because if your energy is not up, you're going to come up with some really dreary piece of work that no one's going to enjoy.

  

  Steve Reich
  • Energy
  • Artist
  • Enjoy

• In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Life
  • Inspiration
  • Desperation

• Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.

  

  Rex Harrison
  • Feelings
  • Realizing
  • Exhilaration

• Anything negative that comes at me throughout the week, you just take it and put it in that box over there for motivation and use it on Sunday.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Week
  • motivation
  • Sunday

• Teaching is too vital an occupation to be left to the lazy or greedy or negative.

  

  Eliot Wigginton
  • Teaching
  • Negative
  • Occupation