George Polya Quotes
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I've been a novelist since 1995 and have had novels in and out of option, and watching that process just made me realize that I have to live by what I teach my students, because I teach screenwriting at Spellman.
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When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
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On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.
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How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.
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You look at the NBA: there's all these young kids that are drafted on potential. They go to bad teams, they're in bad locker rooms, and now we got this analytics stuff that doesn't teach kids how to play. We've got these workout coaches that don't teach kids how to play basketball.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man.
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You'd be surprised how self-conscious a lot of women are. That's something I've witnessed firsthand.
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I started kite boarding when I was 13. My dad was a kite boarder, and I begged him to teach me until he finally agreed. He made me wait because it can be dangerous.
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Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.
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Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.
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I used to teach improv courses in Amsterdam where we would do team-building exercises, and they can go south very quickly.
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The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
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You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
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In all tyrannical governments the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same man, or one and the same body of men; and wherever these two powers are united together, there can be no public liberty.
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You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.
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I've never been a big soloist; I just put in what needs to be there. I'm more of a rhythm player who plays lead - or tries to play lead.
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What middle-income Americans want most of all is a job. We need a generous safety net for the most vulnerable in our society, but for most people the biggest social accomplishment that we can help them achieve is a good-paying job.
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It may be more important in the mathematics class how you teach than what you teach.
