Lev Vygotsky Quotes

Language is the tool of the tools.

Lev Vygotsky

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• To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • You
  • Face

• While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Culture
  • Church
  • Moving

• Being flown to the U.S. to meet Sofia Coppola is really exciting. I was freaking out. I'm a little nervous, as I don't want to muck it up I want to do my best.

  

  Olivia DeJonge
  • Up
  • Want
  • Best

• Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Society
  • Faith

• Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Desire
  • Government
  • Progress

• What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Desire
  • First

• The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • Man
  • Light

• There is more to life than show business.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Life
  • Business
  • More

• One shouldn't know the future.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Future
  • Know

• The awkward thing for me is when the realization happens that I actually might like this girl. Then I become awkward.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Might

• One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Mind
  • Wrong
  • Injury

• I had no style when I was 17! I look at teenagers now and say, 'I wish I'd looked like them when I was that age.' I had no style whatsoever, but style also wasn't as prominent as it is today. I was just very laid back, usually wearing jeans and tank tops and flip flops.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Age
  • Today
  • Wish

• We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Think
  • Revolution
  • Risks

• Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Want
  • Me
  • Admit

• Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • People
  • Happy
  • Strong

• The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Good
  • Challenge
  • Very

• I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • World
  • Population
  • Stabilization

• Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Play
  • Better
  • Choose

• 'Switched at Birth' has an amazing cast, including an Oscar winner and two Emmy nominees. The writing is very innovative, and the show's producers have redefined U.S. TV by launching a mainstream show which includes multiple deaf cast members whose characters communicate only in ASL (American Sign Language).

  

  Rachel Shenton
  • American
  • Members
  • Mainstream

• In fact, is beginning to use a lot of the language and phraseology that we have used. In fact, I think I saw Hillary Clinton TV ad, and I thought it was me.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Language
  • TV
  • Hillary Clinton

• When you're in other people's country you don't speak your own language out of respect. You don't need to speak.

  

  Warwick Thornton
  • People
  • Country
  • Language

• I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Stupid
  • Actions
  • Suffer

• Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so it's kind of a two-way street.

  

  G. Richard Wagoner Jr.
  • Done
  • Management

• Language is the tool of the tools.

  

  Lev Vygotsky
  • Language
  • Tool