Neglected Lessons Quotes

#1. The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.

Andrew Carnegie

#2. We live in a culture that sells sex, promotes sex, and degrades sex, yet God calls His daughters to live as light in this darkness.

Marian Jordan Ellis

#3. The most effective reading teachers are teachers who read. According to Morrison, Jacobs, and Swinyard (1999), "Perhaps the most influential teacher behavior to influence students' literacy development is personal reading, both in and out of school" (p. 81).

Donalyn Miller

#4. Oh, believe me. The greatest egos are those which are too egotistical to show just how egotistical they are.

William Inge

#5. ...my heart may have been in it but my soul was not.

Ernest J. Gaines

#6. If I can make one generalised statement, and generalised statements are never entirely true, nobody wants to be talked down to, kids included.

Spike Jonze

#7. History is strewn with ideas that were intuitive and made sense at the time, but were also hopelessly wrong.

Steven Novella

#8. A recurring problem needs nothing but a tactical head-on solution. The more you entertain your problems, the more your entertain unhappiness!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#9. I've gained no wisdom, no insight, no mellowing. I would make all the same mistakes again, today.

Woody Allen

#10. Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond who you were.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#11. Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter.

Helen Van Slyke

#12. When you see a person who has been given more than you in money and beauty, then look to those who have been given less.

Anonymous

#13. When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#14. God initiates the salvation of man to express the Father's love, not a punitive deflecting of the Father's anger.

Garry Wills

#15. According to a recent study of the brains of identical and fraternal twins, differences in the amount of gray matter in the frontal lobes are not only genetically influenced but are significantly correlated with differences in intelligence.

Steven Pinker