Elliot W. Eisner Quotes
We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.
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The want of money is the root of all evil.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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My real last name is Galifianakisburg.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.
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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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Not that I want everything right now; but I do want everything.
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.
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Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.
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I've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer.
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It's obviously disappointing and surreal when you see someone else win the Stanley Cup.
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Waste paper is like a forest - paper recycles itself, generation after generation.
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I readily concede that a prime minister is not required to speak on every occasion or on every subject, but when there is a duty to speak, silence is unacceptable. Silence can be a strategy, silence can be a tactic, but silence can never be an answer to the ills of our polity and the fault lines of our society.
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Acoustic space is totally discontinuous, like touch. It is a sphere without centers or margins.
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It is perilous to separate thinking rightly from acting rightly. He is already half false who speculates on truth and does not do it. Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action - not a thought. And the penalty paid by him who speculates on truth, is that by degrees the very truth he holds becomes a falsehood.
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I'm really quite normal. My imagination has some serious kinks in it, that's all.
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Congress has the power to legislate with regard to activity that, in the aggregate, has a substantial effect on interstate commerce.
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I'm pretty sure I'm going to fall in my GaGa shoes one night on tour and I'm hoping it becomes a Youtube sensation.
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We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.
