"Each time a door closes, the rest of…" — Parker J. Palmer
"Each time a door closes, the rest of the world opens up."
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78 Quotes by Parker J. Palmer
Parker J. Palmer has 78 quotes on this site.
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Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the…
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How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power…
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In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.
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Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student.
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I now understand what Nelle Morton meant when she said that one of the great tasks in our time is…
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Teaching like any truly human activity emerges from one's inwardness.
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Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are.
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In classical understanding, education is the attempt to "lead out" from within the self a core of wisdom that has…
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Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of…
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Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self…
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We are exploring together. We are cultivating a garden together, backs to the sun. The question is a hoe in…
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Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.
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Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.
— Dean Acheson
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When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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If a mathematician wishes to disparage the work of one of his colleagues, say, A, the most effective method he…
— Alfred Tarski
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An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own
— Marilyn vos Savant
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Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a…
— Bryan Adams
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Lots of old slaves closes the door before they tell the truth about their days of slavery.
— Unknown Author
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Bitterness is a result of clinging to negative experiences. It serves you no good, and closes the door to your…
— Leon Brown
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Sorrow is my own yard where the new grass flames as it has flamed often before but not with the…
— William Carlos Williams
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Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never…
— Helen Keller
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Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time…
— Rose Macaulay
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All who are caught in its seductive, tantalizing web and remain so will become addicted to its immoral, destructive influence.…
— Richard G. Scott
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