Confucius Quotes

When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them.

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• If you don't meet the standards, then you don't qualify.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • You
  • Meet
  • Standards

• An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Money

• This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there.

  

  Weegee
  • Film
  • Nothing
  • Village

• While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.

  

  Naoto Kan
  • Great
  • Power
  • Taken

• My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end up divorcing.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Parents

• Sometimes, things just fall into your lap, and that's pretty incredible.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Pretty
  • Fall
  • Sometimes

• I'm happy. I learned. I learned from my mistakes. But when you learn, you see all the results; you look more mature, and you put all the pieces together.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Together
  • Happy
  • Mistakes

• My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Parents

• And before you ask, I don't ask what equipment my lovers have, merely if they want to play.

  

  Yasmine Galenorn
  • Want
  • Play
  • Lovers

• Didn't he and I stand together before an all seeing God convicted of the same murder? For I had murdered him with my heart and my tongue.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • God
  • Heart
  • Together

• Letters should be easy and natural.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Should
  • Easy
  • Natural

• If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Laugh
  • Insane

• Today's children need more years of education than we are offering. And they need more daily hours of instruction than we are providing. They are ready to learn long before kindergarten, and on the other end of the spectrum, all of them must have access to advanced education for years after they graduate from high school.

  

  Janet Napolitano
  • Children
  • Education
  • Instruction

• The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.

  

  William H. Gass
  • Writing
  • Movement
  • Expression

• I mean Black Flag happened. I was lucky. I don't think I could have put together something with one percent of that oomph on my own.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Thinking
  • Together
  • Black

• The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct.

  

  Confucius
  • Man
  • Correct
  • Says

• I mostly stayed in the background. I was doing quite good, but I wasn't interested in most of the subject-matter. I only found music and languages to be absorbing. I simply hadn't the desire of listening to the teachers. Maybe because it wasn't interesting enough what they had to tell. I couldn't take schooling seriously although I'd love to go back and really learn now - it wasn't what I needed at the time. My mind would wander.

  

  Alan Wilder Depeche Mode
  • Music
  • Interested
  • Teachers

• I think every single one of us can think back on the key individuals in our lives who really made a difference, and also maybe some of those who sent us astray. There are those are the teachers who are brave enough to buck the system, and obviously not in such a way that jeopardizes their jobs, but brave enough to say, "I know I have to accomplish that, but I want to know how I'm going to help this child get there differently. I want to know what makes this child tick, and I want to help him get there from a place of curiosity, rather than from a place where I impose my ideas on him."

  

  Emma Walton Hamilton
  • Help
  • Ideas
  • Jobs

• When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them.

  

  Confucius
  • Teachers
  • Avoid
  • Good Points