Escalante Quotes

#1. There were variations on the truth, of course, but wasn't it always the hard one that worked the best?

D.C. Brod

#2. These are the nameless larvae of the Other Gods, and like them are blind and without mind, and possessed of singular hungers and thirsts.

H.P. Lovecraft

#3. Ask 'How will they learn best?' not 'Can they learn?'.

Jaime Escalante

#4. Maybe the Zion and Bryce Canyon area. Sedona's like that. Grand Canyon, of course. Glen Canyon. Maybe Escalante and Capitol Reef. Or Arches or Canyonlands.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#5. If we expect kids to be losers they will be losers; if we expect them to be winners they will be winners. They rise, or fall, to the level of the expectations of those around them, especially their parents and their teachers.

Jaime Escalante

#6. Life is not about how many times you fall down. It's about how many times you get back up.

Jaime Escalante

#7. Poison?" she (Granuaile)said,"I hope it isn't iocane powder.

Kevin Hearne

#8. I found myself on Gatsby's side and alone.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#9. Time is something you make the most of or it is gone forever.

John Lock

#10. The day someone quits school he is condemning himself to a future of poverty.

Jaime Escalante

#11. We are all concerned about the future of American education. But as I tell my students, you do not enter the future - you create the future. The future is created through hard work.

Jaime Escalante

#12. If we expect students to be winners and expect them to do well, they will rise to the occasion.

Jaime Escalante

#13. You burros have calculus in your blood.

Jaime Escalante

#14. "Ganas is all you need."

Jaime Escalante

#15. Smartass Disciple: If there were two masters, which one should I listen to?
Master of Stupidity: Use the ears to the one who looks so stupid, eyes to else.

Toba Beta

#16. I do not believe in the gifted. If [the students] have ganas, I can make them do it.

Jaime Escalante

#17. It goes like this: teaching is touching life

Jaime Escalante

#18. Education is the ticket to success

Jaime Escalante

#19. It is true, law and war are much alike. War is but a more public kind of lawing; and law is but a more private kind of waring; and both of them remedies of the last refuge.

Daniel Cawdrey

#20. We mathematicians are used to the fact that our subject is widely misunderstood, perhaps more than any other subject (except perhaps linguistics).

Keith Devlin

#21. One of the greatest things in life is that no one has the authority to tell you what you want to be. You're the one who'll decide what you want to be.

Jaime Escalante

#22. So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy.

Peter L. Berger

#23. The Archer sighed and closed his eyes as he tried to refocus on the activity around him. He really hated that name. The Archer. It was a stupidass name. Next time he decided to go all evil genius on the world, he was going to pick his own fucking name.

Abigail Roux

#24. I fell in love when I was twenty-six. Love in my interpretation comes once in a lifetime.

Nick Joaquin

#25. Answers to. Maybe the locals already had answers. He would take

David Baldacci

#26. Despite the voices of the culture that would scream otherwise, victory is irreparably tied to the surrender of self. And that explains why so few are truly victorious.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#27. Wise men don't judge: They seek to understand.

Wei Wu Wei

#28. If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.

Tom Krause