Brookfield Quotes

#1. Brookfield High School. How may I direct your call? No, sir, this is not a waste- disposal unit, I'm afraid you have the wrong number.

Jaclyn Moriarty

#2. Brookfield will never forget his lovableness, said Cartwright, in a speech to the School. Which was absurd, because all things are forgotten in the end.

James Hilton

#3. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. The very best of vineyards is the cellar

Lord Byron

#5. Sometimes the last thing learners need is for their preferred learning style to be affirmed. Agreeing to let people learn only in a way that feels comfortable and familiar can restrict seriously their chance for development.

Stephen Brookfield

#6. The most important knowledge teachers need to do good work is a knowledge of how students are experiencing learning and perceiving their teacher's actions.

Stephen Brookfield

#7. I saw myself dancing alone, always alone,

V.C. Andrews

#8. EVERYTHING in your life you have attracted .. accept that fact .. it's true.

Rhonda Byrne

#9. I just don't want you to feel that way, because I love you. I'm in love with you. Forever and ever, and all the corny things I can attach to that.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#10. My own existence as a teacher is one of sustained epistemological demolition

Stephen Brookfield

#11. Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open the wound again and again. In men, it seldom heals and often grows septic.

Michael Ayrton

#12. I've held onto little musical sketches that I thought could be useful, and the more time that I spend doing them for each film, then the more I have to draw on.

Mike Figgis

#13. For a moment
not even a moment, a split second
I imagine him saying, 'The truth is, I'm desperately attracted to you.' And then I imagine myself spitting in his face. and then I imagine licking it off his cheek and kissing him. (Because I'm disturbed. Ask Anyone.)

Rainbow Rowell

#14. The best learners ... often make the worst teachers. They are, in a very real sense, perceptually challenged. They cannot imagine what it must be like to struggle to learn something that comes so naturally to them.

Stephen Brookfield

#15. One can't write of love while making love.

Colette

#16. For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.

Elie Wiesel

#17. We teach what we like to learn and the reason many people go into teaching is vicariously to reexperience the primary joy experienced the first time they learned something they loved.

Stephen Brookfield

#18. Obstacles are a test of determination. You can choose to let them stop you or you can plow through them.

Tessa Brookfield

#19. I have always found it an honor that people have wanted to buy my shirt and an honor that fans turn up to watch the team I am playing in. I have always found that a huge honor.

David Beckham

#20. What stops us from moving forward is fear. Fear is crucial. Without it, humans would never have lived long enough to evolve into what we are today.

Michael Draper

#21. The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.

Charlotte Curtis

#22. This ain't my first rodeo!".

~R. Alan Woods [1999]

R. Alan Woods

#23. Don't ever give up on your dreams. When you finally stop chasing and grab hold, you can make great things happen. Let your determination take over, and you will be amazed at where it takes you. Your dreams are always within reach, as long as you believe.

Tessa Brookfield

#24. If you want to avoid making mistakes don't do anything

Thabiso Monkoe