Prensky Marc Quotes & Sayings

It flamed like a star that leaping from the firmament sears the dark air with intolerable light. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Let's admit the real reason that we ban cell phones is that, given the opportunity to use them, students would vote with their attention, just as adults would 'vote with their feet' by leaving the room when a presentation is not compelling. — Marc Prensky

The more connections we acknowledge, the more we care. Most of us have a very diverse community of people and this is our strength. — Linda Savage

I'll say initially acting was my first love, and that's what I pursued. But then, so far as even my first day on a film set, and just watching how things were set up, I just said, 'I think I want to be in charge.' I am very much type-A. I am a bit of a control freak. — Chris Evans

Duality is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts — Namkhai Norbu

What you were is yesterday.
What you are is now.
What you can be is tomorrow.
What you decide to be is today. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language — Marc Prensky

And yet the point of view from which his ideas on art had sprung was a simple one: for him, literary schools did not exist; the only thing that mattered was the temperament of the artist; the only thing of interest was the way his brain worked, regardless of the subject he was treating. — Joris-Karl Huysmans

The sky was a feather blanket of clouds, save for one blue hole in the fabric. A blue cloud in a white sky. — Marie Rutkoski

One brave deed makes no hero. — John Greenleaf Whittier

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable ... The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true. — John Steinbeck

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine. — Morris L. West

The reason this will happen, and happen soon, is that learners will demand it to the point that management, teachers and administrators can no longer resist. The workers of the Games Generations will no longer accept, attend, or do training that is boring. So — Marc Prensky

If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing. — Pearl S. Buck

You're going to drive me crazy, aren't you," Hank said.
"Crazy is an ambiguous term with no clinical meaning, and it's insulting to mental health patients. Can you be more specific? — Eli Easton

A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion. If they do not get it in one way, they must in another, or perish. — Margaret Fuller

Make a decision that from now on, your thoughts do not run you, you run your thoughts. From now on, your mind is not the captain of your ship, you are the captain of the ship, and your mind works for you. — T. Harv Eker

Today's students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach. — Marc Prensky