Xenophon Quotes
I will venture to maintain that where the teacher is not pleasing to the pupil, there is no education.
Quotes to Explore
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Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I love so many styles of music.
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I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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I read fashion magazines all the time. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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We have two trainers at the polo ground and do a mix of aerobics, gymnastics and stretches before we start riding. As polo players, it's very important for us to keep in shape. We do a bit of yoga and Pilates sometimes, too.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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It is most regrettable that nuclear energy is being harnessed for making nuclear weapons.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep... Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.
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I first started actually playing guitar when I was eleven years old. I had some neighborhood friends who told me they were starting a band and needed a guitarist. I told my folks, and by the next day I had a guitar lesson set up with a local teacher.
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Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.
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A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.
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I will venture to maintain that where the teacher is not pleasing to the pupil, there is no education.
