Efferfreshpainted Quotes & Sayings

According to a 1995 study, a sample of Japanese eighth graders spent 44 percent of their class time inventing, thinking, and actively struggling with underlying concepts. The study's sample of American students, on the other hand, spent less than 1 percent of their time in that state. "The Japanese want their kids to struggle," said Jim Stigler, the UCLA professor who oversaw the study and who cowrote The Teaching Gap with James Hiebert. "Sometimes the [Japanese] teacher will purposely give the wrong answer so the kids can grapple with the theory. American teachers, though, worked like waiters. Whenever there was a struggle, they wanted to move past it, make sure the class kept gliding along. But you don't learn by gliding. — Daniel Coyle

Painting can also be too earnest at times and that's a drag. You don't want to go in that direction either. It should be holistic. It should represent the whole of your personality, I guess, so if somebody is a sincere painter or an ironic painter, then they're just bullshitting the audience and presenting only an idealized version of themselves. — Joe Bradley

Jasper. Little brother. My heart. — Peter Heller

Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up. — Mother Teresa

I like travelling and if I have to come to Hollywood to make a movie I will, but otherwise I'd never move there. It's very much an industry town and that doesn't really interest me. — Juliette Binoche

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Work out your Body, Know your [whole]Mind/unite the Heart, and connect with your Soul.-Serena Jade — Serena Jade

Perspective is the enemy of long-lost love. — Amy Dickinson

If a good man thrive, all thrive with him. — George Herbert

That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always typified one thing; the dash, the ingenuity, the readiness at the first opportunity that characterizes the American soldier. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

How we shall earn our bread is a grave question; yet it is a sweet and inviting question. Let us not shirk it, as is usually done.It is the most important and practical question which is put to man. Let us not answer it hastily. Let us not be content to get our bread in some gross, careless, and hasty manner. Some men go a-hunting, some a-fishing, some a-gaming, some to war; but none have so pleasant a time as they who in earnest seek to earn their bread. — Henry David Thoreau

Being the companion of the folk of this world is fire. There must be an Abraham if the fire is not going to burn [you]. — Shams Tabrizi

An itchy feeling began to work its way through my body, as though a thousand mosquitoes were circulating through my blood, biting me from the inside, making me want to scream, jump, squirm.
I ran. — Lauren Oliver

Just as we need the courage to be happy, we also need the courage to live simply. — Pope Francis

Yeah, I play a lot of point guard. LeBron plays a lot of point guard. A lot of people are thinking too much on positions. — Dwyane Wade