"You can't motivate a student you don't know."

-- Ted Sizer

#Students Quotes

“A studio is an absolute labyrinth of possibilities - this is why records take so long to make because there are millions of permutations of things you can do. The most useful thing you can do is to get rid of some of those options before you start”
“Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.”

Source : A Life for a Life ch. 16 (1859)
“I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.”
“In order to exert influence over people, there were other things that could be used besides love. Knowledge seemed to be an equally strong force, perhaps even stronger. Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds, hearts and souls.”

Source : Peter Prange (2012). “The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel”, p.66, Simon and Schuster
“If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines.”
“Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an insufficiency of resources and investment, but because we are deprived of the basic institutions and practices that make for good government.”
“A passion-driven exultant man sings out Sentences that he has never thought....”
“Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.”

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