#often

There are absolutely lots of teachers who are trying to come into the profession, but they are not attracted enough to say, 'I'm going to switch careers to do it,' or they are often not retained... because the salaries and the compensation aren't there to make it happen. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#attracted #because #careers #come #compensation

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#brook #compulsion #dictates #disposed #englishmen

This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#attainment #being #coercion #encouragement #forfeiture

We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#ingratitude #often #reality #self-love #suffer

We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good. ↗

— James Laughlin

#good #great #hope #important #into

Often something comes in from which you can see that the person is good, the book may not be perfect as it is, and the person doesn't want to do a re-write. That's something we do almost nothing of. ↗

— James Laughlin

#book #comes #good #may #nothing

To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#beginning #day #first #gets #habit

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#could #ease #embrace #ever #good

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#carry #life #ocean #oftener #onto

I've made music for grownups most of my life as a singer/songwriter - often with my band, Nine Stories - recorded many albums, and 10 years ago I started recording kid's music, too. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#albums #band #grownups #i #kid