Maria Montessori Quotes

As attributed in Winning Strategies for Classroom Management (2000), p. 2.

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• We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Information
  • Flow

• Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Good
  • Hunting
  • Fish

• A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Up
  • Man
  • Self

• Making films is my hobby. It relaxes me; it is my life, and it's one of the best jobs in the world. I go to work and solve problems, fight robots, kill aliens, and kiss beautiful women. I'm a very lucky man.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.

  

  Daniel Drew
  • Want
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• Oh gosh, I dyed my hair red when I was in year 11 with that L'Oreal Live stuff. It was like plumy purple - it was horrific. I looked awful; I don't know what I was thinking!

  

  Sam Smith
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Hair

• When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Up
  • Think
  • Friend

• Experts said public companies worry about the loss of customer confidence and the legal liability to shareholders or security vendors when they report flaws.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Confidence
  • Worry
  • Loss

• I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.

  

  Rachel G. Fox
  • Chocolate
  • Credit
  • Ice

• You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Good
  • Real
  • Learn

• It's nice to film in somewhere that you actually love being. Usually, you're in a studio for months on end, and you never see any daylight, so you really make the most of it.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Love
  • Nice
  • End

• Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Become
  • Seeing
  • Structure

• Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Food
  • Cool
  • Mountain

• I play for India, I play for the 100 million people of my country.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • People
  • Country
  • Play

• I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.

  

  Ted Stevens
  • Best
  • Boy
  • Years

• What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Personality
  • Media
  • Take

• I played cello in my high school orchestra.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Education
  • Challenge
  • Failure

• The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Mind
  • Pleasure
  • Naturally

• The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Strong
  • Failure
  • Enemy

• Cisco Application Networking Services are network-based technologies for improving the performance of software applications for accessing information, collaborating and communicating.

  

  Charles Giancarlo
  • Technologies
  • Collaborating
  • Cisco

• That's one of the great oddities of baseball: Success is relative. A hitter who fails 70 percent of the time at the plate is a potential member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and many World Championship teams lose more than 70 games during their title-winning seasons.

  

  Don Yaeger
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• If one has to conform to a certain taste, he/she might lose his/her own individuality and imagination. But if you don't really care about winning competitions and think of them as chances to learn from the experience, they would become good ways to learn about others and yourself. Competitions are also stages where one becomes known to the public.

  

  George Li
  • Imagination
  • Winning
  • Chance

• As attributed in Winning Strategies for Classroom Management (2000), p. 2.

  

  Maria Montessori
  • Winning
  • Management