Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dr. Birdwell

Our patients inspire us every day. They're just incredible.

Gloria Hernandez

Right now people are scared because they don't feel empowered. Most of them don't watch television, see the news or read the newspaper, so we have to inspire them.

Barry Lopez

Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

Bill Sienkiewicz

If somebody can inspire me, it feels really special

Bill Cowher

J.J. Watt, he does on defense what Andrew Luck does on offense. He inspires those around him, he makes them better.

Bill Crawford

Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.

Queen Latifah

I think the reason I am here is to inspire African-American women who are rappers, full-figured women to know that they can do it too.

Bill Vaughan

We are wrong to fear superiority of mind and soul; this superiority is very moral, for understanding everything makes a person tolerant and the capacity to feel deeply inspires great goodness.

Bertrand Russell

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

Elaine Pagels

Startling as the Gospel of Judas sounds, it amplifies hints we have long read in the Gospels of Mark and John that Jesus knew and even instigated the events of his passion, seeing them as part of a divine plan.

Sathya Baba

Man will realize his mission on earth when he knows himself as divine and reveres others as divine.

Thomas Ken

When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

God truly is our Father, the Father of the spirits of all mankind. We are his literal offspring and are formed in his image. We have inherited divine characteristics from him.

Blaise Pascal

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

Catherine Ponder

I give thanks that I am now rich, well and happy and that my financial affairs are in divine order. Every day in every way I am growing richer and richer.

Granth Sahib

Meditating, meditating in remembrance on the Divine Guru, one's fears are erased and dispelled.

David Liu

My expectation is that we will be able to reduce this to a very simple series of logical events that could have taken place with no divine intervention,

Basil Hume

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

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.