Deborah Meier Quotes

We are all carriers of our own stories. We have never trusted our own voices. Reforms came, but we don't make them. They were presented by people removed from schools, by 'experts'. Such changes bi passes school. School by school changes, however slow, could make a powerful difference.

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• Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Life
  • Live
  • Powerful

• We're concerned how gambling and betting affects the NHL game and changes the perception of and challenges the integrity of the NHL game.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Game
  • Integrity
  • Changes

• Oracle's latest database, version 12c, was specifically designed for the cloud. Oracle 12c makes all your Oracle applications multitenant applications without you having to make any changes whatsoever to your applications.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • You
  • Changes
  • Cloud

• What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
  • People
  • Words
  • Focus

• The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Money
  • Powerful
  • Air

• Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • World
  • Great
  • Women

• We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Strong
  • Powerful
  • Military

• Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Powerful
  • Evil
  • Organization

• Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Future
  • Powerful

• We're in a period of revolutionary change. I'm optimistic. One's self changes, and then the world changes. It's going to begin internally, not externally.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • World
  • Change
  • Period

• Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • World
  • Best
  • Powerful

• Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Changes

• I'm a huge fan of meditation. I know lots of people assume meditation to be some Buddhist mumbo-jumbo, but it's been scientifically documented to create therapeutic changes in the brain.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • People
  • Brain
  • Changes

• Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • Heart
  • Change
  • Action

• Neuroplasticity research showed that the brain changes its very structure with each different activity it performs, perfecting its circuits so it is better suited to the task at hand.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Different
  • Hand
  • Brain

• Two powerful people can't be friends.

  

  Karan Johar
  • People
  • Friends
  • Powerful

• When I'm playing my best, like I was at the U.S. Open, I feel on top of the match and able to do exactly what I want. There are other times when you're not in control, but that is tennis and you have momentum changes in every single match.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Control
  • Single
  • Best

• Nothing changes like changes, because nothing changes but the changes.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Like
  • Nothing
  • Changes

• The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Soul
  • Earth
  • Powerful

• You gotta trust your artist. I love writing pages without dialogue, which seems weird, I guess. But few things are as powerful in comics as a really strong silent page.

  

  Jason Aaron
  • Writing
  • Strong
  • Trust

• Now Dave Eggers, if you lived in San Francisco, is not an easy person to be done with. Everyone - and by everyone, I mean every white person with a college education and an interest in books - wants a piece of him. It's not just his amazingly powerful prose; it's also his charitable works.

  

  James Bernard Frost
  • Done
  • Education
  • College

• I'm an athlete, so I can dress down with the best of them. I can throw on t-shirts and sweats with the best of them.

  

  Dwyane Wade
  • Athlete

• Even her hair, she thought, running her fingers impatiently through the damp golden brown ringlets that curled romantically around her face. A Botticelli angel, a boy in college once called her, begging her to let it grow. Right! That was all she needed: wild curls cascading down her back like a doomed Shakespearian virgin, or a rock star.

  

  Naomi Ragen
  • Running
  • Angel
  • Grow

• We are all carriers of our own stories. We have never trusted our own voices. Reforms came, but we don't make them. They were presented by people removed from schools, by 'experts'. Such changes bi passes school. School by school changes, however slow, could make a powerful difference.

  

  Deborah Meier
  • Powerful
  • Changes
  • Removed