#ding

We now understand that higher-level thinking is more likely to occur in the brain of a student who is emotionally secure than in the brain of a student who is scared, upset, anxious, or stressed. ↗

— Mawhinney and Sagan

#emotions #learning #stress #teaching #understanding

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#american #american people #books #decency #deep

There are roles that are terrifying because they're large or you may feel that they're out of your line, but I'm never terrified once the actual work begins. Once you begin rehearsal, then it's small building blocks. It's solving little problems one at a time. ↗

— Michael Emerson

#because #begin #begins #blocks #building

Each one prays to God according to his own light. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#each #god #his #light #own

Because capitalist society has expanded the productive forces so enormously, the social conditions under which it arose lag behind and become fetters holding back the further growth of productive forces. ↗

— Earl Browder

#back #because #become #behind #capitalist

Whitney and I have fun reading the newspaper sometimes. You'd be amazed at the places they say I've been. ↗

— Bobby Brown

#been #fun #have fun #i #newspaper

It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#both #bring #deficits #home #iraq

I can always forgive where I understand. ↗

— Jude Morgan

#understanding #forgiveness

I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today. ↗

— Isambard K. Brunel

#bridges #conditions #construction #down #embarrassed

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity. ↗

— Steven Brust

#avoid #before #called #conform #conformity