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Scott McClanahan

#Like Something Quotes

“One may reject such proposals as something that will hurt merit but the ground reality is students from such sections do not have the same access to quality education that rich students enjoy.”
“The spirit is often concealed within matter to such an extent that few people are generally capable of perceiving it.”
“On the worst days, I don't feel like an artist.”
“The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.”
“Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account.”
“Add a drop of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it.”
“The brown toxic cloud strangling Los Angeles never lifts and grows thicker with every immigrant added. One can't help appreciate the streets of Paris will soon become the streets of LA. However, Paris' streets erupted while LA's shall sink into a Third World quagmire much like Bombay or Calcutta, India. When you import that much crime, illiteracy, multiple languages and disease-Americans pick up stakes and move away.”
“When we see the need for deep change, we usually see it as something that needs to take place in someone else. In our roles of authority, such as parent, teacher, or boss, we are particularly quick to direct others to change. Such directives often fail, and we respond to the resistance by increasing our efforts. The power struggle that follows seldom results in change or brings about excellence. One of the most important insights about the need to bring about deep change in others has to do with where deep change actually starts.”

Source : Robert E. Quinn (1996). “Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within”, Jossey-Bass

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