#tea

My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free. ↗

— Cat Cora

#being #dad #did #elderly #evolved

I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

#between #cousins #deterioration #determination #detest

Consider now the primal scene of education in the modern elementary school. Let us assume that a teacher wishes to inform a class of some 20 pupils about the structure of atoms, and that she plans to base the day's instruction on an analogy with the solar system. She knows that the instruction will be effective only to the extent that all the students in the class already know about the solar system. A good teacher would probably try to find out. 'Now, class, how many of you know about the solar system?' Fifteen hands go up. Five stay down. What is a teacher to do in this typical circumstance in the contemporary American school? "If he or she pauses to explain the solar system, a class period is lost, and 15 of the 20 students are bored and deprived of knowledge for that day. If the teacher plunges ahead with atomic structure, the hapless five—they are most likely to be poor or minority students—are bored, humiliated and deprived, because they cannot comprehend the teacher's explanation. ↗

— E.D. Hirsch Jr.

#teaching #education

But I think the - what the tea party movement demonstrates, and I think the, the, the enthusiasm that we're seeing from independents and Republicans, is that if Washington isn't going to change itself, then we're going to change Washington. And I think that's what we're seeing. ↗

— John Cornyn

#demonstrates #enthusiasm #going #i #i think

If you're going to tear down a hero, you should never forget that you're tearing down someone else's hero. You're tearing down somebody else's son. You might have to face her one day. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#down #else #face #forget #going

I can't coach anymore. I want to run a team. ↗

— Larry Brown

#coach #i #run #team #want

That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns - the fans were more rabid, and they wanted to literally kill the opposition. ↗

— Bob Cousy

#case #fans #kill #literally #more

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#genuinely #gets #happy #i #instead

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#around #bottom #bottom line #clear #crystal

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#balance #disciplines #execution #forget #four