And so getting to meet Aubrey Plaza and Mae Whitman and getting to know two awesome girls who are just kick-ass. It's… — Alison Pill Copy Share Image
My normal writing day involves three hours of actual writing, before noon, and the rest is just feeding the writing. There is… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
Intellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here, for the first time, the physical space we live in is being depicted as… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
For the far higher task of teaching fortitude and patience I was never fool enough to suppose myself qualified, nor have I… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. Let… — Soniya Ahmed Copy Share Image
The more I live, the more I recognize that the teaching moments in my youth, especially those provided by my parents, have… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
There's a lot wrong [with American universities]. I'd remove 3/4 of the faculty - everything but the hard sciences. But nobody's going… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
It isn't that some gay will get some rights. It's that everyone else in our state will lose rights. For instance, parents… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
The old Indian teaching was that is is wrong to tear loose from its place on the earth anything that may be… — Wooden Leg Copy Share Image
It is amusing to hear the modern Christian telling you how mild and rationalistic Christianity really is and ignoring the fact that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Compassion is a chameleon: it can wear the face of fear, anger, sadness, joy or even dispassion, depending on what's needed at… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
“Adjunct teachers are the professorial equivalent of the migrant Mexican farm laborers hired during harvest. If you can get a good contract… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I feel that I need to return to the pure stillness periodically. And then, when the teaching happens, just allow it to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I do believe that nice religious people make the world safe for extremists by teaching us [...] that faith is a virtue,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you are thinking, you can't understand Zen. Anything that can be written in a book, anything that can be said -… — Seungsahn Copy Share Image
Don't believe a teaching just because you've heard it from a man who's supposed to be holy, or because it's contained in… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A precept or command is a general teaching of God, obligating every man under pain of mortal sin - namely, in cases… — Jan Hus Copy Share Image
The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Teaching does allow me to keep one foot in the youthful waters I tend to occupy in my novels, so I'm thankful… — Alafair Burke Copy Share Image
The quest for this unwearied peace is constant and universal. Probe deeply into the teaching of Buddha, Maimonides, or a Kempis, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the question were, "What ought to be the next objective in science?" my answer would be the teaching of science to… — Elihu Thomson Copy Share Image
When I was about six, I saw my elder siblings play chess and pestered my mother into teaching me. Very soon, I… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
“You'll hardly fail completely in one day and there's plenty more days coming," said Marilla. "The trouble with you, Anne, is that… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
I doubt the terrorists saw 9/11 as a teaching opportunity. And we're not really a culture geared to anything as humble as… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
solitude begins with a time and a place for God, and God alone. If we really believe not only that God exists… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first and foremost duty of the high school in teaching mathematics is to emphasize methodical work in problem solving...The teacher who… — George Polya Copy Share Image
Education is thus a most power ally of humanism, and every public school is a school of humanism. What can the theistic… — Charles Francis Potter Copy Share Image
“Was I gleeful, settled, content, during the hours I passed in yonder bare, humble schoolroom this morning and afternoon? Not to decieve… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
If religious freedom is to endure in America, the responsibility for teaching religion to public school children must be left to the… — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
How dangerous it is rashly to adopt the Mosaical institutions [Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye]. Laws might have been… — Gerald Heaney Copy Share Image
People need fewer 'ought-to' sermons, and more 'how-to' sermons. The deepest kind of teaching is that which makes a difference in people's… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
It should not be strange that the values cherished by all the three major religions are the same, since they originate from… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
In the 1970s, for example, I found myself learning to relish the poetry of Andrew Marvell and Sir Thomas Wyatt, and getting… — Adam Kirsch Copy Share Image
Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Since her retirement from teaching Miss Beryl's health had in many respects greatly improved, despite her advancing years. An eighth-grade classroom was… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected... In teaching it's… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
But the ground of a man's culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
A Christian is not a person who believes in his head the teachings of the Bible. Satan believes in his head the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
One of the most powerful concepts, one which is a sure cure for lack of confidence, is the thought that God is… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image