Elliot W. Eisner Quotes
The Arts are fundamental resources through which the world is viewed, meaning is created, and the mind developed. To neglect the contribution of the Arts in education, either through inadequate time, resources, or poorly trained teachers, is to deny children access to one of the most stunning aspects of their culture and one of the most potent means for developing their minds.
Quotes to Explore
-
I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
-
This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
-
Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
-
And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
-
There may be 10 odd things which I want to do as an actor, and we get an opportunity also, but I need to be sure whether the person I am trusting or the role that I am relying on - is it the correct one?
-
I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.
-
You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
-
My sister is not a public person, so I don't think it's right to discuss her.
-
I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.
-
Ziggy Marley is the third generation of Marleys I know. I knew his grandmother and his dad - I did a children's album with his grandmother. They're like family.
-
I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.
-
I want anything I produce to be good for people kind enough to try it, but it's the momentum and process I enjoy most.
-
I didn't even respect singers until I heard Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong.
-
If my children were hungry I should think I would steal to feed them.
-
No two notes are ever the same volume. With the guitar, you really have to model in your mind this wider thing; you're trying to create the illusion of a bigger dynamic range.
-
Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.
-
The one-sided funding creates one-sided images that reinforce the press defining as progress an examination of only women’s issues. Thus, a quarter century’s-worth of studies showing domestic violence against men to be more than equal to domestic violence against women receive so little publicity as to barely make a dent on the public’s consciousness.
-
'The gods are on the side of the stronger,' according to Tacitus. The prophets proclaimed that the heart of God is on the side of the weaker. God's special concern is not for the mighty and the successful, but for the lowly and the downtrodden, for the stranger and the poor, for the widow and the orphan.
-
Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
-
I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening.
-
I'm gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy.
-
You know we were in the Argonne Forest twenty-eight days, and had some mighty hard fighting in there. A lot of our boys were killed off. Every company has to have so many sergeants. They needed a sergeant; and they jes' took me.
-
The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.
-
The Arts are fundamental resources through which the world is viewed, meaning is created, and the mind developed. To neglect the contribution of the Arts in education, either through inadequate time, resources, or poorly trained teachers, is to deny children access to one of the most stunning aspects of their culture and one of the most potent means for developing their minds.
