Esme Raji Codell Quotes
So much of teaching is sharing. Learning results in sharing, sharing results in change, change is learning.
Quotes to Explore
-
You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
-
General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
-
I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.
-
Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
-
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
-
Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.
-
I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
-
I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
-
A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.
-
You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
-
My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.
-
My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
-
Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
-
If I don't create, I don't exist.
-
I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
-
How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Constitution and demonstrate exactly how traditional judicial warrants can gather all the info we need - and how bulk collection really hasn't worked.
-
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
-
What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
-
Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.
-
Some guys can do digital things where they make some tricks work, but I work on paper and I work with washes. You can't just change things afterwards. You have to get it right on the page.
-
Families, by and large, like most groups, resist change. If one member of a family wants to move away, this is regarded as a betrayal, for example. If one member of a family is fat and tries to lose weight, often other members of the family will sabotage the effort. If one member of the family wants to get out of a role he or she has been playing for years, this is usually difficult ot do because the rest of the family tries not to let it happen. If your role is clown, you remain the clown. If your role is responsible oldest child, you probably keep that role within your family for your entire life. If you are the black sheep, you'll find it very diffcult to change colors in the eyes of your family no matter how many good deeds you do.
-
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
-
I don't care about revenues.
-
So much of teaching is sharing. Learning results in sharing, sharing results in change, change is learning.
