Be prepared Quote by S. I. Hayakawa

The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We…

— S. I. Hayakawa

It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves…

— S. I. Hayakawa

So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit.

— S. I. Hayakawa

How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their…

— S. I. Hayakawa

Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.

— S. I. Hayakawa

The English Language Amendment says above all, 'Let's see to it that our children, our young people, learn English. Let us not deny them…

— S. I. Hayakawa

We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress,…

— S. I. Hayakawa

People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers of smaller…

— S. I. Hayakawa

If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just…

— S. I. Hayakawa

The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us.

— S. I. Hayakawa

In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully realize that…

— S. I. Hayakawa

Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.

— S. I. Hayakawa