Quotes of: Undermine Keyword

Still water undermines the bank.

Russian

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectatio...

Dennis Prager

I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.

Walter Isaacson

[last lines] Underminer: Behold, the Underminer! I'm always beneath you, but nothing is beneath me! I hereby declare war on peace and happiness! Soon, all will tremble before me!

The Incredibles

The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease.

Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

The recent spate of magazines for "parents" (i.e., mothers) bombard the anxiety-induced mothers of America with reassurances that they can (after a $100,000 raise and a personality transplant) produce bright, motivated, focused, fun-loving, sensitive...

The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women

No one can undermine national unity.

Ivica Dacic

By ignoring tomorrow, we undermine today.

Jamais Cascio

Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.

Benazir Bhutto

American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to t...

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

A historian tries to understand what happened, why it happened, what was the context, who did what, and what assumptions led them to act as they did. A historian customarily displays a certain diffidence about trying to influence events, knowing that...

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

As a recent editorial in the Journal of Clinical Oncology put it: "What we must first remember is that the immune system is designed to detect foreign invaders, and avoid out own cells. With few exceptions, the immune system does not appear to recogn...

Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

I do think anger is so difficult for women. Girls think it undermines their femininity; it's not very ladylike.

Koren Zailckas

We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.

Christiane Amanpour

Breast cancer, I can now report, did not make me prettier or stronger, more feminine or spiritual. What it gave me, if you want to call this a “gift,” was a very personal, agonizing encounter with an ideological force in American culture that I h...

Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state of mind. The lines at unemployment offices and churches offering free food includes strivers as well as slackers, hab...

Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity or peer into the natural world for some glimmer of understanding? Why retreat into anxious introspection when, as Emerson might have ...

Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America