Esme Raji Codell Quotes

#1. The difference between a beginning teacher and an experienced one is that the beginning teacher asks, "How am I doing?" and the experienced teacher asks, How are the children doing?

Esme Raji Codell

#2. The goal is not necessarily to succeed but to keep trying, to be the kind of person who has ideas and see them through.

Esme Raji Codell

#3. Buddhist scriptures recommend that you hide your good qualities and achievements like a lamp inside a vessel. You should not advertise them unless there is great purpose in doing so.

Dalai Lama XIV

#4. I feel more comfortable with myself now. I don't know if I feel sexier. I feel more whole.

Teri Hatcher

#5. Something's going on in Cordell's room, but I'm not sure I want to know what it is.

Esme Raji Codell

#6. The upset is in the mind of the favorite.

Bo Schembechler

#7. But there are forces that don't let you turn back and undo things, because to do so would be to deny what is already in motion, to unwrite and erase passages, to shorten the arc of a story you don't own.

Salvador Plascencia

#8. I have a candle on the bus that smells like caramel brownie. I love anything that smells like food!

Carrie Underwood

#9. I suppose you have heard of the handsome letter Mr. Frank Churchill had written to Mrs. Weston? I understand it was a very handsome letter, indeed. Mr. Woodhouse told me of it. Mr. Woodhouse saw the letter, and he says he never saw such a handsome letter in his life.

Jane Austen

#10. Today it is time to give the government a new lease of life and this new phase which is as demanding as it is inspiring requires renovated energy and new faces.

Michelle Bachelet

#11. Sometimes a little song is sweet to hear, even if the orchestra is more accomplished

Esme Raji Codell

#12. Why do these dumb fucks keep guns around the house? They make the world as ruinous as they imagine it is.

Esme Raji Codell

#13. After all, suicide is contagious.

Suzanne Young

#14. If you give people an idea these days, they just think you are sharing it with them so they can critique it, play devil's advocate, and so on. It doesn't occur to them that they might help or get enthused or at least have the courtesy to get out of your way.

Esme Raji Codell

#15. A library is a platform upon which we catch trains to Every Where and Any Place, Another Time and Across Space. All aboard!

Esme Raji Codell

#16. I tend not to share things unnecessarily with those I despise.

Esme Raji Codell

#17. But certain people just think it's their job to freak out. As long as they're freaking out, they feel busy, like they must be doing work. Getting upset is force, but no motion. Unless we are moving the children forward, we aren't doing work.

Esme Raji Codell

#18. It's not our job to be liked(teachers)", I reminded her. "Its our job to help them be smart(students)". Secretly, I thought, who gives a rat's ass if they like us? Sometimes I can hardly stand them!

Esme Raji Codell

#19. Oh, thank you, Darrell Sikes, for being wild and nasty and rude and getting me out of The Program and making me Normal Dumb, not Special Dumb. I owe you one, Darrell Sikes.

Esme Raji Codell

#20. And when you go to God's house, it ain't got to be no fashion show. You just come as you are.

Esme Raji Codell

#21. You're saying she doesn't do her work? So take care of your business! Fail her like a normal kid. The failure will be between me and my daughter, then. You won't like it if her failure is between me and you.

Esme Raji Codell

#22. ...'Loving children is what teachers do for extra credit. It's not the main assignment.'
'Seems to me that the extra credit is more important than the main assignment,' observed Cordelia.

Esme Raji Codell

#23. Personality is a manifestation of ego. Ego is the central sense of separateness that a person has from the rest of the universe. Personality is the form that that separateness take.

Frederick Lenz

#24. I suppose an active imagination can be a form of madness. Or it can be the thing that keeps you from going mad.

Esme Raji Codell

#25. Looking back I can see that there have been no breaks from one departure to the next; I start planning again before we've even arrived back home.

Barbara Hodgson