#tee

If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum. ↗

— Elaine MacDonald

#communication #communication skills #confidence #curriculum #effectiveness

The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast. ↗

— Patrick MacGill

#afternoon #between #breakfast #clock #earlier

The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#class #comedy #into #played #sink

The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#book #diary #during #emotions #form

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#clever #crude #enough #genius #girl

She tried to remind herself that beauty was only skin deep, but that didn't offer any helpful excuses when she was berating herself for never knowing what to say to people. There was nothing more depressing than an ugly girl with no personality. It hurts, because deep inside, she knew who she was, and that person was smart and kind and often very funny, but somehow her personality always got lost somewhere between her heart and her mouth, and she found herself saying the wrong thing or, more often, nothing at all. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#personality #self-esteem #beauty

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#aware #before #children #conscious #easily

When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring. ↗

— Vanessa Mae

#because #chill #churning #hit #i

I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#committee #i #member #never #official

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses. ↗

— Jena Malone

#about #adolescence #dresses #just #prom