Shanker Group Quotes & Sayings

The teachers unions are the clearest example of a group that has lost its way. Whenever anyone dares to offer a new idea, the unions protest the loudest. Their attitude was memorably expressed by a longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers: He said, quote, 'When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of children.' — Albert Shanker

If I'm too strong for some people, that's their problem. — Glenda Jackson

Preparing to lose is easy, but losing is hard. Preparing to win is hard, but winning is then easy. — Oli Thompson

The danger of insanity is always present in those who try to penetrate the discipline of logic and pure knowledge. — Otto Weininger

I'll go walking in circles
While doubting the very ground beneath me
Trying to show unquestioning faith in everything — David Sylvian

Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before. — William Hazlitt

Cynicism. I liked that in a man. — Josh Lanyon

Today we are in a war against war - music is our power. — Michael Franti

In the same way there is much, much in all of us, but we do not know it. No one ever calls it out in us, unless we are lucky enough to know intelligent, imaginative, sympathetic people who love us and have the magnanimity to encourage us, to believe in us, by listening, by praise, by appreciation, by laughing. If you are going to write, you must become aware of this richness in you and come to believe in it and know it is there so that you can write opulently with with self-trust. Once you become aware of it, have faith in it, you will be all right. But it is like this: if you have a million dollars in the bank and don't know, it doesn't so you any good. — Brenda Ueland

Personal power means being secure and confident inside yourself. — Lev Raphael

Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman. — Bela Lugosi

It is far more seemly
to have thy Studie full of Bookes,
than thy Purse full of money.
— John Lyly