Famous Quotes & Sayings

B. F. Skinner

Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for that: truancy, (2) counterattack-vandalism on schools and attacks on teachers, (3) apathy-a sullen do-nothing withdrawal. The more violent the punishment, the more serious the by-products.

B. F. Skinner

The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of "winning friends.

B. F. Skinner

Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

B. F. Skinner

Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.

Billy Corgan

Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.

Bill Engvall

I've come up with the three things you never want to hear at your kid's parent/teacher conference. Number one: 'You're only responsible for the first $10,000 worth of damage.' Number two: 'We have medication for this.' And number three: 'It was more than an ounce and he was less than a hundred yards from the school.'

Bill Cosby

When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade boys because I felt that was an important time for them. I had gone astray at that point in my life and really wanted to help keep them from making the same mistake I had made.

Bill Cosby

I want to get violence - I want schools to start from K through 12 to just every day have teachers understand that they don't want to talk about anything that is violent, and they want to explain to the children how bad violence is and how behavior - violent behavior, is something that they really should not practice and think about.

Bharati Mukherjee

What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire?

Ashton Kutcher

For me, the most entertaining evening would be to go sit with entrepreneurs and talk with them about how they're building their companies and how we can help to make them better. That's the one thing in the world - well, I love doing that.

Caprice Bourret

My parents were both entrepreneurs.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.

Ben Horowitz

A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.

Ben Horowitz

In Silicon Valley, when you're a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.

Adora Svitak

If you pursued something that you felt strongly about, then I call that success.

Adora Svitak

All that you need to become an entrepreneur and change the world is a working brain - and pretty much nothing else.

Ludwig von Mises

Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that.

Ludwig von Mises

If, as is generally the case, the heirs are not equal to the demands which life makes on an entrepreneur, the inherited wealth rapidly vanishes.

Gertrude Stein

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear readers, are an after-thought.

Michael R. Bloomberg

I am disappointed that we were not able to find a way to reconcile the freedoms we hold so dear with the sanctity of the site.

Katrina Kaif

I will give my life to whoever in need, to any dear friend of mine.

Paolo Bettini

I found myself alone, so I preferred to attack. Ultimately I wasted a lot of energy and paid dearly for it in the end.

Joyce Smith

I lost two things dear to me this year. I lost my husband and I lost my house,

Doug Varone

I think it's insecurity, ... You have a need to see and touch someone you dearly love.

Nancy Bolin

It is so much fun and it is such a worthy cause. It is dear to my heart. It is a celebration.

Dave Morris

Have confidence in your strengths, dear writer, or give it all up now and create apps instead.

Evan Spiegel

Having been bullied growing up, it's something that's really near and dear to my heart. You probably won't have many friends on Snapchat if you're being a jerk.