Albert Shanker Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
-
You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.
-
Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
-
Networking is never easier than when people are coming to you.
-
I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
-
I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
-
I studied Morse code.
-
All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
-
Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
-
I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
-
There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
-
The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.
-
Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
-
Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
-
I remember 'Def Comedy Jam' being a big deal and kids talking about it in school, but it was never, 'I want to do that.'
-
My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
-
I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
-
Madeleine Albright introduced herself to me. I talked to Henry Kissinger and Barbara Walters. And I asked Peter Jennings to write a note of encouragement to my son, Logan, a news anchor at the ABC affiliate in Palm Springs.
-
I never had any formal voice training, but it's something I always wanted to do. 'So I negotiated a deal with a recording studio after I gathered enough material for a record. I put a group together and just went ahead and did it. What the hell.
-
Your attitude is contagious.
-
Massive numbers of people are going to come online from cultures we don't normally interact with.
-
Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power.
-
Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do with what I'm going through personally or a problem I'm trying to work out. When I wrote my novel 'Baby,' my three children had all just gone out the door.
-
School disruption comes from those children who have given up hope.
