#ward

Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse. ↗

— Julius Erving

#effort #else #faced #find #going

If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward. ↗

— Victor Borge

#caused #i #just #just one #laughter

An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement. ↗

— Robert Bork

#differing #educational #egalitarian #inevitably #levels

I have played on many teams throughout my career, and I know when a team has the tools, and the right positive attitude towards winning. ↗

— Boomer Esiason

#career #i #know #many #played

You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#anymore #away #doubts #forward #go

The American people know that every day 3,000 kids begin to smoke, 1,000 of them die an early death. They're not going to allow us to go forward this year and not have comprehensive bipartisan legislation. It's in everybody's best interest. ↗

— Erskine Bowles

#american #american people #begin #best #bipartisan

I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#courses #did #english #english literature #figured

I think, like a lot of other people who have been in the service, you'd been delayed in what you were doing. You wanted to catch up and the best way to catch up was to move as fast as you could toward a degree. ↗

— Daniel J. Evans

#best #best way #catch #could #degree

Likewise, with solar, especially here in California, we're discovering that the 80 solar farm schemes that are going forward want to basically bulldoze 1,000 sq. mi. of southern California desert. Well, as an environmentalist, we would rather that didn't happen. ↗

— Stewart Brand

#bulldoze #california #desert #discovering #environmentalist

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance. ↗

— Nathaniel Branden

#acceptance #awareness #first #first step #second