Haim Ginott Quotes

Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us.

Haim Ginott

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• We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Faith
  • Young
  • Explain

• I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.

  

  Ed Case
  • Support
  • Military
  • Policy

• I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Think
  • Today
  • Man

• I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me.

  

  Nadine Labaki
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Me

• If I were to take an undergraduate chemistry exam, I would probably fail.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Fail
  • Chemistry
  • Were

• A tree grows. If you're staying the same, something is wrong. You're not alive.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Tree
  • Same
  • Alive

• For a long time, I had been very secretive about a lot of the things I'd been through personally, and a lot of that is purposeful. My fan base, for the large part, is the younger generation. They're like, 'I want to know everything! I want to know it all!'

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Time
  • Long
  • Want

• The pressure isn't on my brain, but on my mouth. I realized Sam Malone said very little, he spoke in little sentences. Which is much more comfortable for me for some reason.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Reason
  • Brain
  • Pressure

• Why should Americans on the DMZ be among the first to die in a second Korean War? Should the North attack the South, could we not honor our treaty obligations with air and naval power offshore?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Why
  • Power
  • War

• Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Work
  • Me
  • Find

• I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Education
  • Peace
  • Violence

• When I was outed on July 14th, 2003, I was, until that moment, covert. That means no one outside of a very small circle knew where I really worked.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Small
  • Moment
  • Circle

• Everyone wants to pretend like they sprang out of the ground with an Animal Collective record in their hands and a David Bowie haircut, and that's just not the case. You discover these things gradually.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Animal
  • Hands
  • Haircut

• I really work. I like feeling that I've nailed it, and we've got the picture.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Work
  • Feeling
  • Picture

• What is writing but an expression of my own life?

  

  Zane Grey
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Own

• The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Quality
  • Literature
  • Start

• It's an honor to be awarded the Liberty Medal.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Honor
  • Liberty
  • Awarded

• It's important to not marginalize any people group in fiction. A complete, authentic-feeling world should include many different elements of life and culture. For this reason, my books will almost always contain people of faith.

  

  Rae Carson
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need - this life is hell.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• Now I'm sitting quietly at home again and I'm happy to be able to work undisturbed. I made a lot of sketches of life in Germany and it was very intriguing to see life there in Berlin, a stay for three weeks. I was also glad to see the old pictures of Rembrandt, Dürer, etc. again and to have the confirmation and encouragement they gave me. As for the moderns, I saw damned little that gripped me.. .Modern German painting has moved so far away from me and become unintelligible in areas in which my work had, and still has, an influence; but people like Klee, Kandinsky, etc. have moved much closer to me again, in fact I value the Bauhaus more and more. These people are working and developing. You can see that there is development. And they love their work, which is the main thing.

  

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • Happy
  • Painting
  • Influence

• I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values.

  

  Jim Wallis
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Church

• Actually, I'm 130, but 125 is what I put on my resume, because that's what I look like I weigh.

  

  Eleanor Mondale

• Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us.

  

  Haim Ginott