Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent.

Bill Self

There's not many things less important than the score at halftime.

Bill Crawford

Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.

C. S. Lewis

The only thing Christianity can not be...is moderately important.

Cecelia Ahern

Being the best was as equal to being in the middle, which was equal to being the worst. All were merely a state of being. It was how a person felt in that state and why they were in that state that was the important thing.

Carrie Underwood

Lord, I feel so small sometimes in this great big old world. Yeah, I know there are more important things. But don't forget to remember me.

Bette Davis

What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.

Anton Corbijn

Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a lot of things dialogue can also say.

Antoine Lavoisier

Languages are true analytical methods.

David Aaron

It is a question of putting into the text the language of our accord.

Wanda Peterson

Last summer I took a sign language class. There was a project where I was in a group. I was treated just like the other students (in the group).

Bertrand Russell

We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.

Veda Upanishads

It is not the language but the speaker that we want to understand.

Joe Torre

I think that's personality more than anything. (Hideki) Matsui is so different and he's got the language barrier, too.

Dean Maki

I think that they are likely to make some small modification to the forward-looking language ... saying something like 'further policy firming might be needed' rather than 'may be needed'.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

Marty Schottenheimer

I think so, because of the language that had to be learned and understood. The last thing you get is the technique because the language you can put together. But to be able to put the fundamentals together at the speed necessary to be successful takes some time. You can't have a lot of thought going through your mind.

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 Shorten

What really matters in a workplace, what helps an employer if you've got a unionised workforce is if your shop stewards know the rules of the game, if your safety reps are taught to be able to examine situations to make sure the workplace is more safety. Better informed delegates, better workplace safety saves companies money. Unions are very good at safety. We are good at teaching delegates how to resolve disputes.

Bill Crawford

To spank or not to spank isn't the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?

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.