Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
It is always easy to shine in the dark mud! Choose the difficult task: Amongst the pearls under the sun, try to… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Of course we can always imagine more perfect conditions, how it should be ideally, how everyone should behave. But it is not… — Ajahn Sumedho Copy Share Image
Poetry's task is to increase the available stock of reality, R P Blackmur said. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the… — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
When we undertake a task, we should not falter from first to last until the task is accomplished; if we fail, we… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
The pleasant converse of the fireside, the simple songs of home, the words of encouragement as I bend over my school-tasks, the… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear;… — Laozi Copy Share Image
This is the thing I've noticed is that the greater the distance between you and any ordinary task is the measurement of… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
To proportion the eagerness of contest to its importance seems too hard a task for human wisdom. The pride of wit has… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I love idleness. I love to busy myself about trifles, to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them, to… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The Prophet's words were true; The mouth of Ali is the golden door Of Wisdom." When his friends to Ali bore These… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
Committee, n.: A group of people that, when given the task of deciding whether to start array indices from either 0 or… — Stan Kelly-Bootle Copy Share Image
Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
In The Art and Aesthetics of Boxing, David Scott addresses the daunting task of establishing a groundwork for the aesthetics of boxing-and… — Robert Anasi Copy Share Image
Every generation is confronted anew with the task not to look the other way when injustice occurs. ... Everyone is responsible for… — Richard von Weizsaecker Copy Share Image
He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Deal with difficult tasks while they are easy. Act on large issues while they are small. — Laozi Copy Share Image
A smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created? — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
How do we professionally manage content? We don’t. We shouldn’t manage content in the same way that we shouldn’t manage technology. Content… — Gerry McGovern Copy Share Image
The true task is to unite and organize all workers...and it is the workers themselves who must secure freedom for themselves. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The task of getting the Gospel in an adequate way to every ethnic person is tremedous. There is but one solution. I'm… — William Cameron Townsend Copy Share Image
Because our gifts carry us out into the world and make us participants in life, the uncovering of them is one of… — Elizabeth O'Connor Copy Share Image
