Kids can and will thrive in the right conditions, but it all seems to start with the teachers, and giving those teachers the resources to teach- and not just to test.
It's only natural to feel lonely after the enjoyable moments pass. But as you experience new joys those feelings of sorrow will start to fade.
Pursuing your dreams in spite of opposition is a revolution against mediocrity. By challenging yourself, you transform those around you.
Everybody I knew, practically, was a journalist when I was a kid - my father, all of his friends. I never wanted to be like those people.
Did you think you had educated the superstition out of those people?' 'I certainly did think it.' 'Well, then, you may unthink it.
How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!
Hamas thinks they can kill the will of people by intimidation. Most of those who are killed in the Gaza Strip for the suspicion of collaborating with Israel, have nothing to do with Israel.
I think that, if there are topics that are just on people's minds, things manifest into reality out of the sort of global consciousness of being aware of those topics.
The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.
I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about.
I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.
Those who actually hate animals to the point of being cruel to them are outcasts to the rest of us, no matter where in the world they live.
Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.
I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage.
Leadership is a greater change process. It means getting to lead all those who told you that you will never get too far." neculaifantanaru . com
I'm on my computer a lot, but I swear I have an excuse! I spend about nine hours on media a day, but seven or eight of those are doing my schoolwork.
Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.
As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.
A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.
I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.
Truth is not a right to be claimed, but a gift for those who are able to conquer it. ☥
