Jaime Escalante Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Education is the ticket to success

Jaime Escalante

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

Jaime Escalante

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

Jaime Escalante

#6. I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#7. If we approach with faith, we too will see Jesus ... for the Eucharistic table takes the place of the crib. Here the Body of the Lord is present, wrapped not in swaddling clothes but in the rays of the Holy Spirit.

Saint John Chrysostom

#8. "Ganas is all you need."

Jaime Escalante

#9. You burros have calculus in your blood.

Jaime Escalante

#10. What scares me most about the media is that so many of them don't realize that by presenting and highlighting certain issues, opinions, and perspectives over others, they can manipulate and control people's beliefs in subtle ways.

Oliver Stone

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

Jaime Escalante

#12. Girls like dudes that are overweight. I know too many women who say, "I like you now that you've got a little thicker," and I don't really know any woman that says, "I like you now that you've got bald."

Chadwick Boseman

#13. How was it that he could remember not remembering, and yet the fugitive facts themselves remained so elusive? How could he misplace the skills of a lifetime? Where did such knowledge go?

Geraldine Brooks

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

Jaime Escalante

#15. Conniving at your friends' vices, passing them over, being blind to them and deceived by them, even loving and admiring your friends' egregious faults as if they were virtues -- does not this seem pretty close to folly?

Erasmus

#16. Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.

Elliott Erwitt

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

Jaime Escalante

#18. He had nowhere to be; he had nothing to do; he was deeply depressed, fracking depressed, deep-shale shattered.

Lauren Groff

#19. 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

#20. They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby.

Oliver Joseph Lodge

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

Jaime Escalante