High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.
I jump out of perfectly good airplanes, and it's a great thrill and it allows me to share in the dangers that our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis.
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.
In Japan, a number of time-honored everyday activities (such as making tea, arranging flowers, and writing) have traditionally been deeply examined by their proponents. Students study how to make tea, perform martial arts, or write with a brush in th...
The day may come when the rest of animal creation acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. The French have already discovered that the blackness of the skin is no reason why a human being shoul...
Of course present knowledge of psychology is nearer to zero than to complete perfection, and its applications to teaching must therefore be often incomplete, indefinite, and insecure. The application of psychology to teaching is more like that of bot...
Leadership obeys the principle of Hooke's law to the very bone. It explains: When an elastic material is stretched, it returns to its original position. But when it's over stretched beyond its limit point, it loses its elasticity and becomes plastic,...
THE TRUTH ABOUT PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION • American fifteen-year-olds rank thirty-fifth out of fifty-seven developed countries in math and literacy. • 30 percent of public school students don’t graduate from high school. • Every day, 7,000 kid...
...Communism, it's a reactive formation derived from capitalism. For this reason it's less flexible and has a lower survival potential. The days of laissez-faire capitalism are completely dead, and the assumptions of nineteenth-century Communism are ...
Great companies are formed by great people. It’s not about attracting great people; it’s about retaining them.
...what distinguishes pulp fiction from great literature is how emphatically the work challenges us to interpret it.
The real distinction between being great and being less great seems to be the extent to which we are willing to be pushed along by our own desires.
The adult were once young. The young have not yet attained adulthood.The young must learn to appreciate the wisdom of elderly people and learn from their life experiences.
Every child born into the world has a divine mission to fulfill. As the child grows into adulthood, he or she must act to fulfill the divine mission.
You can actually overcome all the limitations of life and achieve your dreams, if you don't give up too early.
You have to first dream and take the first action towards realising the dream, then all other resources will be attracted to you for the achievement of the dream.
Why do men create suffering for others and fight over material wealth? Naked we come into the world, naked will go out of the world.
I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.
