Shirley Hufstedler famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.
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If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.
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The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival.
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The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared ... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.
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If you haven't failed, you haven't tried very hard....
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The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people.
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I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was.
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I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.
-- Shirley Hufstedler
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Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.
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I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.
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Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.
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It is essential for me to become involved in another search, and 'search' is the proper word to use because it promises discovery along with the risk.
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If you work around at-risk teen students, actually tell them you love them and have faith in their success. No one tells them that. No one.
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The job of dictator is now a high-risk job.
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I'm brave to say that I won't take this sort of risk.
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People need to learn to live with more risk.
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Look, Gail." Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed at each end; then, his wrists and knuckles tensed against the resistance, he bent the branch slowly into an arc. "Now I can make what I want of it: a bow, a spear, a cane, a railing. That's the meaning of life." "Your strength?" "Your work." He tossed the branch aside. "The material the earth offers you and what you make of it . . .
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They're basically moments in which you're in touch with the meaning of life, when your relationship to the rest of the universe makes sense.
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