Transfer must be the aim of all teaching in school - it is not an option - because when we teach, we can address only a relatively small sample of the entire subject matter. All teachers have said to themselves after a lesson "Oh, if only we had more...
The Joker: I want... my phone call. I want it. I want it! I want my phone call! Detective Stephens: That's nice. The Joker: How many of your friends have I killed? Detective Stephens: I'm a twenty-year man. I can tell the difference between punks who...
Phoebe Dinsmore: [giving Lina diction lessons] Repeat after me - Tah, Tey, Tee, Toe, Too. Lina Lamont: Tah, Tey, Tye, Tow, Tyo. Phoebe Dinsmore: No, no, no Miss Lamont, Round tones, round tones. Now, let me hear you read your line. Lina Lamont: And I...
Valerie Thomas: I guess we thought that maybe Susan Orlean and Leroche could fall in love, and... Charlie Kaufman: Okay. But, I'm saying, it's like, I don't want to cram in sex or guns or car chases, you know... or characters, you know, learning prof...
[last lines] Alice's sister: Alice... Alice... will you kindly pay attention and recite your lesson? Alice: [waking up after escaping the mob] Hm? Oh. Oh, uh, how doth the little crocodile improve each shining tail and pour the waters of the... Alice...
Holly Sargis: [voice over narration] Then sure enough Dad found out I been running around behind his back. He was madder than I ever seen him. His punishment for deceiving him: he went and shot my dog. He made me take extra music lessons everyday aft...
It was Dostoevsky, once again, who drew from the French Revolution and its seeming hatred of the Church the lesson that "revolution must necessarily begin with atheism." That is absolutely true. But the world had never before known a godlessness as o...
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.
Father to teenage son: "My relationship with you is more important than anything I've got to say to you.
Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance
What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.
It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
Don't ever underestimate the importance of treating others with respect and kindness.
Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important.
It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.
What's important is the ambition that results from our weakness.
Your personal dignity was always more important to you than mere emotion, wasn't it?
It's far more important why is being said, than what.
The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.
The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and share at that age stays with us for life.
