Schmoker Focus Quotes & Sayings

A cold heart is my protection mechanism. I don't really feel anything for anyone. — Emmanuel Jal

They've lied about everything.-about the fence, and the existence of Invalids, about a million other things besides. They told us the raids were carried out for our own protection. They told us the regulators were only interested in keeping the peace.
They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end.
For the very first time I realize, that this, too, maight also be a lie. — Lauren Oliver

Henceforth we are dead to everything pertaining to ourselves and alive to His Spirit alone. This requires our exercising faith. — Watchman Nee

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something. — Samuel Johnson

I have found that educators yearn to be told something like this: There will be no more initiatives - at least for a time. Instead, we will focus only on what will have an immediate and dramatic impact on learning in your classrooms: ensuring the implementation of a common, content-rich curriculum; good lessons; and plenty of meaningful literacy activities (such as close reading, writing, and discussion) across the curriculum. — Mike Schmoker

I know that Southern redhead type, Bruno said, poking at his apple pie. — Patricia Highsmith

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar ... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. — Aldous Huxley

I think it's really important to do what you want to do because in the long-run it's your career, you want everything to go well and you want to be happy with what you're doing. It was really important for me to take control of my career. — Cher Lloyd

Apologies are great, but they don't really change anything. You know what does? Action. — Stella Young

Money is life to us wretched mortals. — Hesiod

I'm not studying everything that can go wrong. What I'm studying is how much love there can be, even when everything appears to be going wrong. — Andrew Solomon

Catalyst also provides a handy, free-of-charge quiz that managers could benefit from taking. The quiz can help leaders understand whether their organizations are inclusive and what areas need to be improved. — Ruchika Tulshyan

Nathaniel Willis, having spent his first week walking the city in drizzling rain, said that when the sun burst forth at last it so changed all his previous impressions that he had to set off and see it all a second time. "And it seemed to me another city," he wrote. "I never realized so forcibly the beauty of sunshine. Architecture, particularly, is nothing without it. — David McCullough