"We need a coat with two pockets. In……" — Parker J. Palmer
"We need a coat with two pockets. In one pocket there is dust, and in the other pocket there is gold. We need a coat with two pockets to remind us who we are."
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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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Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?
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Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat…
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It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat…
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Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
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Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another…
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