Top 40 Ganz Quotes
#2. Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease.
[Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.]
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#3. The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because they show something that is no longer stone or tree but sacred, the ganz andere or 'wholly other.
Mircea Eliade
#4. Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made.
Immanuel Kant
#5. Surprisingly, Gestalt psychologists have found that when subjected to Ganz fields for long periods of time, we hallucinate. Can empty fields serve as mirrors, not for our exteriors, but for our interiors?
John Paul Caponigro
#6. By now, abortion should be obsolete. And I - and probably a lot of other feminists - wish it were obsolete, because abortion, in itself, is not a value - it is simply the right to chose, which is an essential value.
Betty Friedan
#7. If deep change depended solely on outside intervention it would never happen.
Marshall Ganz
#8. Challenging the status quo takes commitment, courage, imagination, and, above all, dedication to learning.
Marshall Ganz
#9. My degree was in education, but the idea of being a teacher lost out to being a reporter. I worked at a newspaper for a while, then went to New York and worked in PR at RCA and NBC, and at 'The United States Steel Hour,' a drama series.
Joan Ganz Cooney
#10. ...belief that a painting is a window onto another world requires a leap of faith, a willingness to be won over by what lies within the frame.
Sarah Ganz Blyth
#11. Big Bird was the biggest star, I mean, children's favorite for a number of years. I have a 22-year-old granddaughter whose first words were 'Big Bird.'
Joan Ganz Cooney
#12. Messy spirituality is the delirious consequence of a life ruined by a Jesus who will love us right into his arms.
Michael Yaconelli
#13. My favourite festival experience is a show at midnight with the moon blazing and a crowd full of open hearts ready to dance.
Lykke Li
#14. Probably any successful career has X number of breaks in it, and maybe the difference between successful people and those who aren't super achievers is taking advantage of those breaks.
Joan Ganz Cooney
#15. Hope is the belief in the probability of the possible rather than the necessity of the probable.
Marshall Ganz
#17. Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.
Marshall Ganz
#18. In South Africa, where HIV-positive children are often shunned, we have an HIV-positive Muppet to teach children to be friendly with children with HIV. But they use local actors. And it's not always a street. Sometimes it's 'Sesame Plaza,' or 'Sesame Tree.'
Joan Ganz Cooney
#19. I was brought up Catholic, and even as a little girl I was affected by the idea of giving back - doing something for the needy, something of significance.
Joan Ganz Cooney
#20. The question for me was, could TV actually teach? I knew it could, because I knew 3-year-olds who sang beer commercials!
Joan Ganz Cooney
#21. I feel like you should be confident in whatever you do, and a lot of my new music [that's coming out] I want people to judge more so than the music I've put out recently, because I feel like it's really changed a lot.
Big Sean
#22. I thought it was quintessentially American - very hip, very late-'60s. I was absolutely stunned when a German production company asked me if I could do a 'Sesame Street' in Germany. It was absolutely the happiest surprise.
Joan Ganz Cooney
#23. To Beth>> Your meet-cute would have gone like this, "Hey, you got chocolate in my peanut butter!" / "Sorry, I have a boyfriend." Also, I feel like I should point out that it was freezing rain. Freezing rain isn't cute.
Rainbow Rowell
#24. I love you. Those three words have a deeply embedded history. They come with a whole lifetime of laughter and tears. So when I say them, I hope you feel the weight of my words because they bear everything I hope. They bear everything that I am.
June Gray
#25. Visualize success, but don't believe your eyes.
A.C. Newman
#26. I did not even go to kindergarten; I just started first grade when I was five and started reading right away. I don't know how it all worked, but I had a lot of adults and older siblings around me. So, I guess I was probably introduced to what one would be introduced to at that time in kindergarten.
Joan Ganz Cooney
#27. When we tell our own story, we teach the values that our choices reveal, not as abstract principals, but as our lived experience. We reveal the kind of person we are to the extent that we let others identify with us.
Marshall Ganz
#28. Storytelling may be what most distinguishes social movements from interest groups.
Marshall Ganz
#29. There's a real sweet spot between challenge and hope - leaders make pathways that keep both firmly in view.
Marshall Ganz
#30. There is a young and impressionable mind out there that is hungry for information. It has latched on to an electronic tube as its main source of nourishment.
Joan Ganz Cooney
#31. Putting down the power right from the whistle would be ugly and brutal, but it would get the job done. He wanted to tell her that, but this was the thing with coaching: you had to step back at exactly the moment you ached to step forward.
Chris Cleave
#32. If you would make the most of yourself, cut away all of your vitality sappers; get rid of everything which hampers you and holds you back, everything which wastes your energy, cuts down your working capital. Get freedom at any cost.
Orison Swett Marden
#33. I wish I could tell you that the Children's Television Workshop and Sesame Street were thanks to my genius, but it really was a lucky break.
Joan Ganz Cooney
#34. Stop? I'm the guy. I don't stop! That's the woman's job. We're the gas, they're the brakes.
Lowell Ganz
#35. Movements have narratives. They tell stories, because they are not just about rearranging economics and politics. They also rearrange meaning. And they're not just about redistributing the goods. They're about figuring out what is good.
Marshall Ganz
#37. A story communicates fear, hope, and anxiety, and because we can feel it, we get the moral not just as a concept, but as a teaching of our hearts. That's the power of story.
Marshall Ganz
#39. If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
Octavio Paz
#40. It's not whether children learn from television, it's what children learn from television ... because everything that children see on television is teaching them something.
Joan Ganz Cooney
