37 quotes found
“Just do what makes sense.”
“Do the thing that scares you.”
“A poem a day keeps the doctor away.”
“Write as though your life depended on it.”
“Be the kind of grown up you needed as a child.”
“Most often it is in heartache that we love more boldly.”
“People say they walk on the shoulders of giants. True, but have you ever walked like one?”
“Be simple. Be direct. Be clear. Don't worry about being correct. Worry about being real.”
“Create something. Create something ugly. Create something beautiful. I don't care what it is. Create it.”
“Forget the American dream...whats your dream? The thing that keeps you up at night...the thing that makes you happy...the thing that keeps your spirit going. Do that thing. Don't label it a hobby o...”
“I never wanted a too die for house, or a too die for car. I always wanted a too die for life.If you were to die tomorrow would you feel like you did everything you wanted to? Loved everyone and mea...”
“Start each day asking, "How do I want others to feel?" Then act accordingly. xo”
“Sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt. Lies. Words hurt. The words we remember. Well, the hurt feeling the words caused stays with us forever.”
“They say you can tell a lot about a country by the way it treats its prisonersI believe the same can be said for how a country treats its children”
“It doesn't matter the materials but what you do and how you interact. Relationships are the most important in the art of teaching. A school can have the most beautiful "stuff" but it's the care and...”
“The brain. Where words mean something. The heart. Where words feel something. When both work together. Kaboom.”
“An educator...a good one that is, inspires others to be even better than herself.”
“Education is not filling up a box but seeing what you can create with one and don't you ever forget that!”
“A few lessons learned as a teacher: I've learned that if you whisper, children will listen...a scribble can be anything (I mean anything!) a monster, a cat, a mom, a dad--our job is to ask to find ...”
“Learning is not filling up a box but seeing and imagining what we can create with it.”
“I don't really enjoy experiencing pain. No one does. But we will become less human if we learn to detach ourselves from one another to the point that when we experience death of a beautiful being (...”
“Imagine going a long time without seeing someone you love. Then after months or years getting the moment to see them and catch up. I think that's what death is like. Going a long time and missing t...”
“Running my fastest not from my past. Running from those who have hurt me in it. And, they can't catch me anymore. I escaped from the land of make believe.”
