Elizabeth Esty Quotes
We've become so accustomed to teaching to the tests that we've forgotten about a child's joy of discovery.
Quotes to Explore
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I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.
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When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
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We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy.
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We do not take away the powers of surveillance. We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.
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My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.
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We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
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Coach Lue always amazed me. I'm like, 'How do you have this much joy coming out of life? You have money, but you don't drink; you don't smoke. All you do is hoop, and you live on a natural high.' But now I know.
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A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road - you simply have to go a little further down the track. That has not been my experience.
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Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
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It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.
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I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
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A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.
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When meeting difficult situations, one should dash forward bravely and with joy.
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I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at that?' Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don't look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.
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I want to put the joy of creativity, of drawing every day, of having a go and being surprised at what one can achieve with just a pencil and an idea at the heart of my term as laureate. I want to make sure people have fun whilst addressing fundamental issues I care about passionately.
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The conventionality of the English is something I find unattractive - the whole lack of joy in the physical.
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When Kennedy could not get the civil rights bill passed - and he was the big liberal - Lyndon Johnson came in and it got passed, and he was the conservative and the southerner. So sometimes in politics, to get something done, it takes a special kind of knowledge and a special kind of person, but it doesn't always follow the party lines.
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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
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I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.
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We've become so accustomed to teaching to the tests that we've forgotten about a child's joy of discovery.
