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children finds himself useless
I was like, 'Well, we'd think he'd be useless around kids,' ... But I think he finds himself more comfortable around children than he realizes. Jason Statham
children coming few helping kids program reading shelter
Kids at the children's shelter are coming out there and getting a lot of one-on-one because there are so few children out there. The reading program out there is really helping these kids a lot. Kerry Nelson
children city stop streets teach throwing
I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting. Britt Ekland
children compared cost couple elderly family financial four good home keeping minimal replace stay town
Keeping an elderly couple in their home for another 10 to 15 years makes good financial sense. If they stay in their home, their cost to the town is minimal compared to the family with four children that would replace them.
children school thinks
All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences. Tony Buzan
children discovered information passing people
It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance. Sugata Mitra
children coming comparison content kids learning memorize results rote test whatever whether
In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.
children inclined less standing
If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.
children few reach remote supplies villages
There are still too few helicopters to reach more than 1,000 remote villages with lifesaving supplies that children urgently need. Ann Veneman
important today energy
It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is Richard P. Feynman
important west moral
The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition Richard Rorty
important trying breakfast
Routinize the routine. The things that aren't important to you, whether it's breakfast or your commute, try to do them with the least energy possible so that leaves you with more energy for other things. Robert Pozen
important loser winner
Learn how to be a loser, because it's important to be a loser to be a winner. Sanford I. Weill
important modern modernism
One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be. Wallace Stevens
important storytelling important-things
Storytelling is the important thing. Vincent Kartheiser
important want forget
What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it. Warren Buffett
important investing normal
... it's important to have the right monetary policy. It's important for, to have the right fiscal policy. But it's nowhere near as important as just the normal regenerative capacity of American capitalism.
important investment away-from-you
The most important investment you can make is in yourself... nobody can tax it or take it away from you.
literature prophet prove
Jesters do often prove prophets. Joseph Addison
literature london able
During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful. George Andrew Olah
literature lasts should
[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own. James Russell Lowell
literature stories short-story
The short story is the literature of the nomad. John Cheever
literature
To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like Northrop Frye
literature classic produce
Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic.
literature doe students
I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is going on in what he reads: The most conscientous student will be continually misconstruing the implications, even the meaning.
literature study subjects
Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.
literature now-and-then made
...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened. Norman Maclean