Elumelu Foundation Quotes & Sayings

We know that African American students tend to be relational learners. It's about the relationships between a teacher and student. Students respond well to teachers they know, believe in them, care about them, but also who teach in a matter that elicits a more active approach to learning, rather than just sitting and listening. The research on this is strong and has been available for a long time, but it is not widely practiced. That's a huge obstacle. — Pedro Noguera

To carry a secret is to play with fire. Try to pass it on and you'd risk hurting someone else. Hold on to it and eventually you'd get burned. — Emily Thorne

It was like a bad dream, in which people one knew quite well behaved fantastically, and one was powerless to escape from some dreadful doom. — Georgette Heyer

God was singing through this little man to all the world. — Peter Shaffer

I would like to disagree. I would like to argue. But that's the problem with the dead. You can't fight with them, you can't reason with them, you can't prove them wrong or yourself right, beg them to choose you, to stay with you, to love you more than death. They are gone. They have left only a big black ugly gash where their beautiful vibrant selves used to be. They no longer give a shit. — K.S.R. Burns

Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions. — Alain De Botton

Fear is a natural reaction of moving closer to the truth. — Pema Chodron

What a lark! What a plunge! — Virginia Woolf

My hope is that I hit it big with something, and then I'll have enough of a cushion to carve out time to write a book. That would be my passion project. — Rob Thomas

God's time never stops. — Mahatma Gandhi

Apple is always focused on out-innovating itself ... and that is something I am very proud to be a part of. — Arthur D. Levinson

When you do hard routes, you have to try hard. They're not easy routes. You have to give everything you have. You have to get totally animalistic. When you're super pumped, I have to yell to bear down. [ ... ] It's like martial arts. When Bruce lee threw a punch, he had to mean it. Haahhh! Like that. When you're doing a hard move, there is this excess energy you have to let out. Air explodes out of you. — Chris Sharma

I think that in school I was really shy. And even today when people meet me they are shock to see just how not-crazy I am. — Matt Shultz

That's one of the disadvantages of getting older; you're inclined to make intimate contacts with fewer people. — Aldous Huxley