Allington Quotes

#1. You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him.

Oscar Robertson

#2. A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.

Gary Hamel

#3. Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Jane Austen

#4. [The Yellow Wallpaper] was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#5. A man does not climb a mountain without bringing some of it away with him, and leaving something of himself upon it.

Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway Of Allington

#6. I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. Effective readers, even at their earliest levels, read in five to seven word phrases rather than word by word.

Richard Allington

#8. Some teachers, the less effective ones, thought that fair meant distributing instruction equally to all students regardless of their needs. The exemplary teachers we studied, however thought fair meant working in ways that evened out differences between students

Richard L. Allington

#9. Independence is a heady draft, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

Maya Angelou

#10. Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy.

Richard Allington

#11. Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books.

Richard Allington