Quotes About Unaccountability

#1. The foundations demand that public schools and teachers be held accountable for performance, but they themselves are accountable to no one. If their plans fail, no sanctions are levied against them. They are bastions of unaccountability.

Diane Ravitch

#2. A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking.

Michael R. LeGault

#3. But in love, merit is won blindly and unaccountably, and in this blindness and unaccountability lies happiness.
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Ivan Goncharov

#4. I can erase all misperceptions from your mind if you will bring it under my guidance. Only your misperceptions stand in your way. Without them your choice is certain.

Foundation For Inner Peace

#5. It's foolish to expect that one exposure to your message will instantly convert someone from stranger to raving ideavirus-spreading fan. So plan on a process. Plan on a method that takes people from where they are to where you want them to go.

Seth Godin

#6. Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.

Jean Cocteau

#7. Just being with Nakajima made me feel as if we were detached from history, and had no particular age.

Banana Yoshimoto

#8. I was afraid of burglars and Indian thugs and snakes and fires and Jack the Ripper, when I should have been afraid of thirty years in a bank and a take-over bid and a premature retirement and the Deuil du Roy Albert.

Graham Greene

#9. To master life, control the mind. To control the mind, guard your speech.

Radhe Maa

#10. Setting the right priorities or having superior time management skill means knowing the difference between "must have," and "nice to have.

Pearl Zhu

#11. I really make sure that my girls understand the importance of education. I don't want them to be spoilt and only know private school kids. I want them to behave well by example.

Wendi Deng Murdoch

#12. (Zeke) finally did what I'd been fearing and hoping and dreaming he'd do from the very start.

Julie Kagawa

#13. Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren't accompanied by regret.

Laura Kasischke

#14. We really have to do something about you ambivalence toward civic duty, kid."
"I already overthrew one government," Vin said. "I figure that takes care of my 'civic duty' for a while.

Brandon Sanderson

#15. I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.

Madonna Ciccone

#16. There was after all no mystery in the end of love, no mystery but the mystery of love itself, which was large certainly but as real as grass, as natural and unaccountable as bloom and branch and their growth.

John Crowley