"Technology sometimes encourages people to confuse busyness with effectiveness."

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Source : Douglas B. Reeves (2012). “Transforming Professional Development into Student Results”, p.28, ASCD

Douglas B. Reeves

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“The Commission's findings underscore that the nation is still vulnerable to attack and that we must move more quickly to make us safer. We must take the Commission's work and use it to make certain that such horrific attacks never occur again.”
“â€Ž"But you're the toughest son of a b!&â‚¬# i've ever seen.You never let anybody get near you.You never let anybody know what you really think.”
“Indulge, and to thy genius freely give, For not to live at ease is not to live.”

Source : Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, Aulus Persius Flaccus, John Dryden (1693). “The Satires, Translated Into English Verse by J. Dryden ... Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus Made English by Mr. Dryden”
“For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.”
“We mustn't assume that we are going to deinvent government solely from inside the Beltway or within one or two sessions of Congress. We will do it one step at a time, in one community at a time - at the local level and through local institutions like churches, nonprofit and volunteer organizations and families.”
“Even if you persuade me, you wonâ€™t persuade me.”
“I feel responsibility for a lot of things that I manage to touch.”

Source : "Exclusive: Interview With Bryant Gumbel (and His Fiance)". Interview with Barbara Walters, abcnews.go.com.
“Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent. For there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.”

Source : Ron Chernow (2010). “Washington: A Life”, p.565, Penguin

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