Thomas Sergiovanni Quotes

#1. (In schools) There is an emphasis on doing things right rather on doing the right things.

Thomas J. Sergiovanni

#2. [The superstitious, "bound in to saucy doubts and fears," degenerate into cowards and "die many times before their deaths.

Sun Tzu

#3. But shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.

Salman Rushdie

#4. His view of time, and of change, has become that of most elderly people: he hates change, since for him - for his body - any change is for the worse. And if there is to be change, then he wants it to happen quickly, so it does not use up too much of the time remaining to him.

Susan Sontag

#5. My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.

Anna Held

#6. Systems of schooling are over managed and under led.

Thomas J. Sergiovanni

#7. (We need) leadership that is tough enough to demand a great deal from everyone, and leadership that is tender enough to encourage the heart.

Thomas J. Sergiovanni

#8. It's all generated, maybe, by the fact that the attitude of the populace is to try to find the answer instead of trying to find a man who has a way of getting at the answer.

Richard Feynman

#9. May the optimism of tomorrow be your foundation for today.

Wale

#10. The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'

Bartlett Sher

#11. The saved are singled out not by their own merits, but by the grace of the Mediator.

Martin Luther

#12. I fooled around and fell in love.

Elvin Bishop

#13. The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.

Igor Stravinsky

#14. The heart and soul of school culture is what people believe, the assumptions they make about how school works.

Thomas J. Sergiovanni