Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dionne Warwick

I am a combination of my entire family.

Ginnifer Goodwin

One time I had too many Heinekens and I googled myself and realized that that was a very, very bad combination.

Iyanla Vanzant

You can never love anyone to your own detriment. That is not love, that is possession, control, fear, or a combination of them all.

Martin Feldstein

Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly.

Pat Summitt

I'm interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.

Mahatma Gandhi

A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital.

Patty Loveless

I'm a combination of Linda Ronstadt, Loretta Lynn and Ralph Stanley.

Timothy Leary

When you teach someone how to perform creatively (ie, associate dead symbols in new combinations), you expand his potential for experiencing more widely and richly.

Shaquille O'Neal

I'm a combination of the Terminator and Bambi.

B. F. Skinner

Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for that: truancy, (2) counterattack-vandalism on schools and attacks on teachers, (3) apathy-a sullen do-nothing withdrawal. The more violent the punishment, the more serious the by-products.

B. F. Skinner

The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of "winning friends.

B. F. Skinner

Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

B. F. Skinner

Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.

Billy Corgan

Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.

Bill Shorten

What really matters in a workplace, what helps an employer if you've got a unionised workforce is if your shop stewards know the rules of the game, if your safety reps are taught to be able to examine situations to make sure the workplace is more safety. Better informed delegates, better workplace safety saves companies money. Unions are very good at safety. We are good at teaching delegates how to resolve disputes.

Bill Crawford

To spank or not to spank isn't the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?

Bill Engvall

I've come up with the three things you never want to hear at your kid's parent/teacher conference. Number one: 'You're only responsible for the first $10,000 worth of damage.' Number two: 'We have medication for this.' And number three: 'It was more than an ounce and he was less than a hundred yards from the school.'

Bill Cosby

When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade boys because I felt that was an important time for them. I had gone astray at that point in my life and really wanted to help keep them from making the same mistake I had made.

Alfred Korzybski

Who rules our symbols, rules us.

Allen Ginsberg

Things are symbols of themselves.

Diane von Furstenberg

For me, traveling and living are the same. How you travel is a symbol of your life.

Mahatma Gandhi

The Charkha is an outward symbol of truth and nonviolence.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All things are symbols.

Joseph Campbell

The dance is the highest symbol of life itself.

Meister Eckhart

Do not cling to the symbols, but get to the inner truth!

Philippe Starck

Everything I do is a symbol. Everything, has a meaning.

W. H. Auden

What we have not named as a symbol escapes our notice.