Elliot W. Eisner Quotes

The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

Elliot W. Eisner

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• I eat healthy and don't go by a diet chart. The breakfast is usually heavy, complemented with short frequent meals. My dinner is high on proteins and low on carbohydrates.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • High
  • Breakfast
  • Short

• I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Think
  • Intelligent
  • I Think

• Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Decision
  • Military
  • Force

• I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Think
  • Want
  • Young

• I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
  • Job
  • Day

• What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.

  

  Fat Joe
  • World
  • Small
  • Island

• We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Age
  • Never
  • Young

• I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Students
  • Brown

• Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

  

  Harlan Stone
  • People
  • Nature
  • Free

• The main interest of most members of the Christian Coalition is the breakdown of the family. I think that's our biggest problem, and if the whole country was as concerned and active in issues of the family as members of the Christian Coalition are, we'd probably be better off as a country.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Country
  • Family
  • Problem

• There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Stop
  • Police
  • Wishes

• When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • World
  • Bad
  • Community

• Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hate. So, with reckless abandon, we strive to be like the majority.

  

  Nate Parker
  • People
  • Black
  • Hate

• One of the most important things, actually, when you're playing on grass, is to move.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Important
  • You
  • Grass

• I definitely went through a period when I was a teenager when every girl was 'The One' and every break-up was the 'Worst Thing That Had Ever Happened.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Period

• I hate downtime.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Hate
  • Downtime

• I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complete tyranny of it, the way it sort of keeps you in this stranglehold and makes you want things that you no longer have and you can never get back.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Want
  • Past
  • Possibilities

• The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Proud
  • Beauty
  • Diversity

• You don't have to work for Google, or any of the other firms encouraging staff to pursue personal projects on company time, to use slowness to unlock your creativity. Anyone can do it. Start by clearing space in your schedule for rest, daydreaming and serendipity. Take breaks away from your desk, especially when you get stuck on a problem.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Work
  • Space

• Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase "happily ever after." Yet every couple I have ever known would agree that nothing about marriage is forever happy. There are moments of bliss, to be sure, and lengthy spans of satisfied companionship. Yet these come at no small effort, and the girl who reads such fiction dreaming her troubles will end ere she departs the altar is well advised to seek at once a rational women to set her straight.

  

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock
  • Dream
  • Girl
  • Moments

• Our spiritual life cannot be measured by success as the world measures it, but only by what God pours through us- and we cannot measure that at all.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • World
  • God

• I have been challenged with the fictional languages I have to learn. I wasn't terrible at languages at school - I got an A in French, so I did well enough - but I didn't enjoy them. I'm not even sure if that plays into how well you learn a fictional language!

  

  Nathalie Emmanuel
  • School
  • Language
  • Learn

• The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

  

  Elliot W. Eisner
  • Language
  • Limits
  • Cognition