A Quotes
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“As a student of conservation biology, I believe that characteristics with survival value will ultimately prevail. There is no survival value in pessimism. If you think failure is inevitable, that view will probably become self-fulfilling.”
“As a student of enlightenment your attitude should not be to become enlightened. It should be to learn.”
“As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.”
“As a student of life I just want to be constantly progressing mentally, physically, and spiritually.”
“As a student of the game, it is a dream come true to align myself with a brand that has a rich history in sports. Like most kids, I grew up idolizing Michael Jordan and continue to work relentlessly to reach his iconic status on the court. I'm truly motivated to take my career to the next level as a member of Team Jordan.”
“As a student studying acting, I was always broke, so going to see any live theater was almost impossible.”
“As a student, I don't have a lot of expenses. I buy food. I play a sport. But that's about it.”
“As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.”
“As a student, you have to learn what areas are most difficult for you... Those are the same difficulties you'll have as a professional artist, so the school is the place to notice them and to find a way to make them work.”
“As a studio, you have to have a niche. You have to provide a service and there has to be a reason for your being around.”
“As a stylist I know accessorization is essential: It is the personal touch to any outfit. With these pieces everybody can have fun, turning an ordinary day into a fantastic fashion day.”
“As a succeeding leader, do not deviate from the forerunner's vision or dream. but learn to build upon the laid foundation and strive to execute beyond the original sight.”
“As a success-minded person, you should always be looking to not only do your job but do it with excellence and go the extra mile.”
Source: Oops! Did I Really Post That
“As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.”
“As a sunbeam perishes when cut off from the sun, so man apart from God would pass back into the void of nothingness from which he first leaped at the creative call.”
Source: The Knowledge of the Holy
“As a surfer, I am interested in the ocean. And I am concerned and interested in all of these natural and cultural rumblings underfoot as well.”
“As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.”
“As a survival-happy species, our successes are calculated in the number of years we have extended our lives, with the reduction of suffering being only incidental to this aim. To stay alive under almost any circumstances is a sickness with us. Nothing could be more unhealthy than to “watch one’s health” as a means of stalling death. The lengths we will go as procrastinators of that last gasp only demonstrate a morbid dread of that event. By contrast, our fear of suffering is deficient.”
“As a survivor of sibling abuse, the toxic shame is not for the survivor to carry. You didn’t do anything wrong. You were not the one to commit atrocious acts of violence. You have been victimized and traumatized. Today, release the stronghold of toxic shame. The toxic shame belongs to each sibling who abused you.”
Source: Toxic Siblings: A Survival Guide to Rise Above Sibling Abuse & Heal Trauma
“As a system of hybrid communicating vessels, the human interior consists of paradoxical or autogenous hollow bodies that are at once tight and leaky, that must alternate between the roles of container and content, and which simultaneously have properties of inner and outer walls.”
Source: Bubbles: Spheres I
“As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.”
“As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.”
Source: The Essential Chomsky
“As a taxpayer, you are required to be fully in compliance with the United States Tax Code, which is currently the size and weight of the Budweiser Clydesdales.”
Source: Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism
“As a teacher and parent, I've had a very personal interest in seeking new ways of teaching. Like most other teachers and parents, I've been well aware painfully so, at times that the whole teaching/learning process is extraordinarily imprecise, most of the time a hit-and-miss operation. Students may not learn what we think we are teaching them and what they learn may not be what we intended to teach them at all.”
Source: Drawing on the right side of the brain: a course in enhancing creativity and artistic confidence
“As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work - writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise.”
“As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self understanding and this is something that can't be taught.”
“As a teacher in order not to have to answer too many questions, you stretch your answers.”
“As a teacher myself I've been in situations where parents come at you, and sometimes parents come across like the teacher doesn't want the best for their kid and it can be really, really hurtful.”
“As a teacher, no matter what grade level, no matter how hard you try to engage the entire
class or implement the suggestions above, you will still encounter “that one kid” who will get
under your skin: the class clown, the smart-ass, the student who acts like you are pulling his teeth every time you ask him to do something, the kid who always has to say “this is stupid.” They are just part of the clientele base we serve and they can drive us to drinking (figuratively
speaking…and sometimes literally).
Please remember that you are the adult. The negativity or resistance “that one kid” radiates can be handled in a way that does not disturb the class structure.”
Source: Success for Every Student: A Guide to Teaching and Learning
“As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up and was, truth be told, sort of enjoying letting it out on Kona, who she felt could have been the poster child for the failure of public education.”
“As a teacher, the desire to teach is valuable, but the desire to educate is priceless.”
“As a teacher we have the thing of not speaking in the negative. So instead of saying to a child: "Stop talking", you'd say: "I need you to sit quietly". Have the positive versus the negative.”
“As a teacher with over thirty years of experience, I've found that students are hungry for material that goes beyond simply learning tune after tune. In fact, my students suggested a good portion of the material presented here. This lesson should be an indispensable aid to the aspiring bluegrass banjoist.”
“As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.”
“As a teacher you can see the difference in kids who have parents who were involved. That difference, by the time these kids get to the third grade, is drastic.”
“As a teacher you just look at someone and you transmit to them what they need to know. Not simply a thought form, but you transmit an awareness level.”
“As a teacher, your intentional efforts to modify the class, school, friendships, and learning approaches can significantly motivate students to shift their mindset and bring to their awareness the necessity and methodology of reaching their full potential.”
“As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.”
Source: Around Theatres
“As a teacher, I can help my students see what is working and not working. I can show them certain solutions. I can guide them to books that will serve as role models. Largely, though, one learns to write almost like developing muscle memory, and this requires years of effort.”
“As a teacher, it is your job to make explicit whatever you though was implicit”
“As a teacher, it's a great help to be teaching philosophical systems you don't believe. You can actually do a better job of presenting them if you leave your beliefs at the door.”
“As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.”
“As a team you are all together, but you are alone in your thoughts. (Amarildo)”
Source: Goal!: I Scored a Goal in a World Cup Final
“As a team, you need to come from behind every once in awhile just to do it. Good for the attitude. It makes it exciting. And when everybody knows you have to throw it... that makes it fun too.”
“As a teammate, strive for empathy
Put yourself in your teammates' shoes
Understand their perspective
Understand where they are coming from”
“As a techdomme I love to take control of your digital life, your PC and of course that will have REAL LIFE effects and control.”
Source: Techdomme
“As a technologist, I see the trends, and I see that automation inevitably is going to mean fewer and fewer jobs. And if we do not find a way to provide a basic income for people who have no work, or no meaningful work, we’re going to have social unrest that could get people killed. When we have increasing production - year after year after year - some of that needs to be reinvested in society.”
“As a technologist, I'm obsessed with searching for the next killer app.”
“As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer. Likewise, the bicycle is alive and well. It was invented in a world without automobiles, and for speed and range it was quickly surpassed by motorcycles and all kinds of powered scooters. But there is nothing quaint about bicycles. They outsell cars.”
“As a teen, I had no idea what the self was. Changing skin like a chameleon came naturally to me, but the self felt like a plastic chair in an airport where I'd have to sit and wait for the next radical character to define who I'd be that season. Acting grabbed me by the gut.”