Sherene Seikaly Quotes & Sayings

If I were a headmaster, I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead and my pupils would study a subject that affected all of them. — Roald Dahl

If you relax too much, the subconscious plays the role; the conscious does something else, rather than the other way around, which is the way it's supposed to be. — Maria Karnilova

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave. — Franz Grillparzer

Patience is the deep acceptance that things should be exactly as they are. Most times that's easier said than done. - L. R. W. Lee — L.R.W. Lee

I think it is important that we all try and be green where it is possible; an awareness of the world around us can never be a bad thing. — Judd Gregg

Chapter 4 On-the-Spot TPTs You can have the best lesson and read the most intriguing stories, but if you've lost your students, your wonderful lesson wasn't as wonderful as you had hoped. For me that was a huge wake-up call, that one math lesson where I looked up from the overhead and realized no one was with me. See, in my head, it was going great! But it was going great for me, not for them! - Courtney Cislo, 5th grade teacher — Persida Himmele

A lot of times, my work is looked at very much on the surface. It's very easy to just want to put something in a box - to say, 'Oh, since this work deals with surface desires at times, this is about consumerism.' And of course, the base of the work is ... not about economics at all. — Jeff Koons

Genius ... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. — William James

I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth. — Maya Angelou

You're not content in your position as a factory owner and a rich heiress, you don't believe in your right to it, and now you can't sleep, which, of course, is certainly better than if you were content, slept soundly, and thought everything was fine. Your insomnia is respectable; in any event, it's a good sign. In fact, for our parents such a conversation as we're having now would have been unthinkable; they didn't talk at night, they slept soundly, but we, our generation, sleep badly, are anguished, talk a lot, and keep trying to decide if we're right or not.
- A Medical Case — Anton Chekhov