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inspirational motivational confidence
Zig Ziglar Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.
inspirational challenges inspire
William Wilberforce If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.
inspirational missing-someone loss
Carl Jung I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.
inspirational teenager teens
Robert Cormier I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.
inspirational gratitude grateful
Richard Paul Evans The truest indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.
inspirational people understanding
Richard P. Feynman I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!
inspirational nature science
Richard P. Feynman For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
inspirational children mean
Richard Hooker Angels are unsatisfiable in their longing to do by all means all manner of good unto all the creatures, ...especially the children of men.
children finds himself useless
Jason Statham 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.
children coming few helping kids program reading shelter
Kerry Nelson 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.
children city stop streets teach throwing
Britt Ekland I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.
children compared cost couple elderly family financial four good home keeping minimal replace stay town
John Romano 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
Tony Buzan All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences.
children discovered information passing people
Sugata Mitra 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.
children coming comparison content kids learning memorize results rote test whatever whether
Sugata Mitra 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
Sugata Mitra 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
Ann Veneman There are still too few helicopters to reach more than 1,000 remote villages with lifesaving supplies that children urgently need.
science opportunity thinking
Richard P. Feynman I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.
science measurement momentum
Richard P. Feynman Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of a localized particle cannot be defined by measurement it therefore has no place in the theory.
science play theoretical-physics
Richard P. Feynman It is odd, but on the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics.
science thinking doubt
Richard P. Feynman Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show.
science tourists philosopher
Richard P. Feynman Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.
science reflection desire
Richard P. Feynman The difficulty really is psychological and exists in the perpetual torment that results from your saying to yourself, "But how can it be like that?" which is a reflection of uncontrolled but utterly vain desire to see it in terms of something familiar. ... If you will simply admit that maybe [Nature] does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possible avoid it, "But how can it be like that?" because you will get 'down the drain', into a blind alley from which nobody has escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.
science errors certain
Richard P. Feynman If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.
science camels world
Richard Dawkins Cheetah genes cooperate with cheetah genes but not with camel genes, and vice versa. This is not because cheetah genes, even in the most poetic sense, see any virtue in the preservation of the cheetah species. They are not working to save the cheetah from extinction like some molecular World Wildlife Fund.
science curiosity fields
Richard Whately To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.