Elliot W. Eisner Quotes
The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.
Quotes to Explore
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
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I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.
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I have the idea that anyone who has ever heard my name has the distinct impression that I was put under the sod years ago just before they buried Lillian Russell.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.
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Sometimes I'll lock myself in a room and dance. I'll turn music on as loud as possible and just get weird!
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Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.
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I've always been trying to write songs that hit you in the stomach but ones that make people feel like things will be just fine.
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When I am an old woman, I will stop trying to look beautiful. I will quit wearing makeup and buying uncomfortable clothes because they look good. Maybe I will take up nudism.
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You must remind yourself: The #1 reason to merge your life with a man is that he makes you feel happier - not more anxious and depressed.
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We were lounging around in this beautiful house in LA, and I'm coming from NY, so sometimes when we weren't working I would just sit on those folding chairs.
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As an older child, I was a huge 'Anne Of Green Gables' fan.
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If neither love nor pain Will ever touch thy heart, Then only God's in thee, And then in God thou art
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The great thing about starting golf in your forties is that you can start golf in your forties. You can start other things in your forties but generally your wife makes you stop them, as Bill Clinton found out.
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Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.
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Family, nature and health all go together.
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Be the best you can be, but acknowledge that you will make mistakes, and then know which errors to let go of. There will be typos in e-mails, meetings you are late for, daily to-do lists that don't get completed. Cut yourself some slack and, more important, reward yourself along the way.
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The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.
