Listservs For Educators Quotes & Sayings

The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who could craft contracts, MBAs who could crunch numbers. But the keys to the kingdom are changing hands.The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind-creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers.These people-artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big picture thinkers-will now reap society's richest rewards and share its greatest joys. — Daniel H. Pink

Grace is darkness and light, peacefully co-existing, as illumination. — Jaeda DeWalt

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years. — Stephen Hawking

Hey, she was his fantasy girl. She was supposed to act in an appropriate fantasy-like manner. She wasn't supposed to look at him as though he was all her nightmares rolled up into one big pile of dog crap that she couldn't wait to scrape off her sensible shoes. And that was only after she'd finally recognized him - which had taken far longer than it should have done considering they'd had hot, mind-blowing sex every night for a year...In his dreams. — Nina Croft

Teens are passionate, questioning, curious, have a bit of the idealism I still cling to, and they're making decisions for the first time that can alter the course of their lives - and sometimes, the course of the world. — Mary E. Pearson

There was no planning for insanity. With enough revolutions and elections, enough transfers of power, eventually a madman would take the reins. — Hugh Howey

If your children see that you are seeking, they will seek-the finding part is up to God. — Polly Berrien Berends

Be not guided by the will-o'-the-wisp of policy, but by the pole-star of divine authority. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

You have to stop crying, and you have to go kick some ass. — Lady Gaga

And she said, in a voice strangely unlike her own, 'I see the vision of a poor weak soul striving after good. It was not cut short; and, in the end, it learnt, through tears and much pain, that holiness is an infinite compassion for others; that greatness is to take the common things of life and walk truly among them; that' - she moved her white hand and laid it on her forehead - 'happiness is a great love and much serving. It was not cut short; and it loved what it had learnt - it loved — Olive Schreiner

Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words. — Zhuangzi

Give me a place outside the earth on which to rest my lever, and I will move the world. By Archimedes — Archimedes

It was hard to remember in the heavy and sensual clarity of these mornings; I forgot whom I hated and who hated me. I wanted to break out crying from stabs of hopeless joy, or intolerable promise, or because these mornings were too full of beauty for me, because I knew of too much hate to be contained in a world like this. — John Knowles

I hope I'll consider my next part, having learnt from this one. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

Just as with homicide, those in the 'passion' category of suicide are much more likely to turn to whatever means are immediately available - those that are easy and quick. — Scott Anderson