O Quotes
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“Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible.”
“Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an 'A' pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that's not how it works.”
“Our educational system just doesn't work as well as it should any more. 70% of people are never going to go to college, and we don't give them the vocational or occupational training they need before we throw them into a work force where too often they find they don't fit. The 30% that do go to college find themselves graduating with debts that may cripple them for years.”
“Our educational system needs to give equal importance to the intellect and the heart.”
“Our educational system now teaches every kid the same thing. It's like rubber stamping!”
“Our effectiveness depends on our capacity to be audacious and astute, clear and appealing. I would hope that we can create a language more fearless and beautiful than that used by conformist writers to greet the twilight.”
Source: Days and Nights
“Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency.”
“Our effort to build stability through authoritarians in the Middle East for 60 years had given us neither democracy nor stability.”
“Our effort was a serious effort, genuine effort, to open the door for peace, unfortunately, the Security Council is not ready to listen to that message.”
“Our effort was mocked by some police supervisors: has the computer caught Ted yet?”
Source: The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer
“Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard.”
“Our efforts cannot and should not substitute for just public policies and effective programs to meet the needs of the hungry...Money, food, and time donated to Catholic charities should not be misread as a sign for success for volunteerism, but rather a desperate attempt to feed the hungry people when others have abandoned their responsibility.”
“Our efforts do not owe us our desired outcomes.”
“Our efforts for inclusive growth are holistic and not piecemeal; well planned and not knee jerk reactions; not for small changes but for quantum leap; making people the partners in growth not just beneficiaries; addressing the local needs by using global ideas and technology. And this is why our efforts in e-governance have been applauded the world over.”
“Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result... Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully wasteful of time and values.”
“Our efforts make the world go around.”
“Our efforts must aim at restoring hope, righting wrongs, maintaining commitments, and thus promoting the well-being of individuals and of peoples.”
“Our efforts to brace and strengthen the ceiling in the dark and dismal cellar of our home, with poles that were spaced about three feet apart, soon proved to be totally inadequate. We also fashioned window and door guards using scrap iron and steel as protection against the nightly rain of relentless horror by the bombings from above. Every time an air raid alarm sounded the five children and three women, living in this old building, stumbled down into the dark, damp basement. It was extremely difficult for one person to fit a baby carriage down the steep stairs and since my baby daughter’s pram was just too large for me to handle alone, I had to lift Ursula out of it and carry her down steep stairs to our makeshift subterranean pantry.
The extreme cold of winter made the intolerable situation even worse. To care for little Ursula, my baby girl, I was forced to sit on the floor of this subterranean pantry. I can still remember the thick coarse material of the heavy coat I wore, as I crouched in what I thought was a protected corner, on the dirt floor. With the upturned collar of my heavy coat scratching my cheeks and uncertain of my surroundings, I fumbled and struggled in the dark and severe cold trying to burp, change and nurse my small, hungry child.”
“Our efforts to counter hatred, intolerance, and indifference must continue simultaneously at individual and structural levels. We must try to influence for good the minds and hearts of individual people through dialogue and confidence building. These efforts must be reinforced by our efforts to create just structures in society to support the ongoing work of negotiations in the human community. Only then will we have a chance to negate the terrible consequences of the tremendous conflicts facing humankind today.”
“Our efforts to help the poor does not mean we're going to eradicate poverty.”
“Our efforts to protect primates will be much more effective if we dismantle the artificial line that we have created between ourselves and other animals.”
Source: Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary
“Our efforts to remove hatred and indifference from the world begin by trying to remove them from our own mind.”
“Our efforts will only be effective if ordinary citizens in other countries have confidence that the United States respects their privacy too. And the leaders of our close friends and allies deserve to know that if I want to learn what they think about an issue, I will pick up the phone and call them, rather than turning to surveillance.”
“Our ego feeds on the validation of others, our self feeds on evolution with others. That our purpose, perhaps, is to survive but survival here is not to cut the throat of ‘others’ but to evolve with them.”
Source: Buddha's House of Mirrors
“Our ego ideal is precious to us because it repairs a loss of our earlier childhood, the loss of our image of self as perfect and whole, the loss of a major portion of our infantile, limitless, ain't-I-wonderful narcissism which we had to give up in the face of compelling reality. Modified and reshaped into ethical goals and moral standards and a vision of what at our finest we might be, our dream of perfection lives on--our lost narcissism lives on--in our ego ideal.”
Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex
“Our ego is a monster that loves to sit at the head of the table, and I have learned that my ego is just as rude and loud and hungry as everyone else's. It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more.”
Source: Yes Please
“Our ego is essential for us to function in the world. It is how I know who I am as a different person from you.”
“Our ego is our silent partner...too often with a controlling interest.”
“Our ego is the tomb from which we must
arise, as Christ did, into the heaven of present day Reality, possibility and wonder, which arises from the resurrection of your Sacred Self”
“Our ego never wants to die and it will do anything to prolong its life. But the truth is, we are both spirit and ego and you have to have a balance between the two. Your spirit never dies, but the ego is all about beginnings and ends.”
“Our ego seeks to understand everything. It wants all the answers. Part of what destroys the ego and connects us with the light is doing things that absolutely don't make any sense. If we want something beyond logic, like a miracle, we have to do something that is beyond logic.”
“Our egoism gains nothing from acts of love, but the world gains all the more. Esotericism tells us that love is to the world what the Sun is for outer life. No soul could thrive if love departed from the world. Love is the “moral” Sun of the world.”
Source: Love & Its Meaning in the World
“Our egos are the the chair of the board. And the board members are the archetypes within us. Each needs to be heard from. Each needs to stand on its own and provide its input. But the whole person under the supervision of the Ego needs to make the final decision in our lives.”
“Our elders, and our elders’ kin, and their kin before them, fought to keep Sunningrocks in our territory. Many of them lost their lives, giving up their last breath for stones that belong to us. Can we give up where they did not, turn tail and flee when they kept fighting so that their kits could hunt and play and bask on these rocks? Will you fight with me now, in honor of all our elders and all our unborn kits?”
Source: Code of the Clans
“Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy.”
Source: Ways of Dying: A Novel
“Our elders say that the sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.”
Source: Things Fall Apart
“Our elders were very smart than we think.Look at how Direto give us so much details in understanding their movements and past events in general ,which tell us how to complete what they started .
Ba ga Mohlala
= Re Banareng babo Hlabirwa le Hlabirwana, Hlabirwa e mogolo wa Mphela Ngwaketse, re batho ba go tšwa boupo-boswana bosetla mabje a sebilo.
=Re batho ba gotšwa bodibane bja tšatši, bodiba boretelega bjo bole go matlabelong a bokone, ga bo lehlokwa lerekwa ka kgomo.
= Re banareng re dikgomo tsha sefoka difulela maribeng le madibeng a kgole, mowe bokgaka le bonong ba palelang go fihla gona.Heeee lena bana bago makatsha ditshaba le meleko kera bo mabina ba ija.
Hleng le bina Kgomo la eja di tlabile le boletebele ka maoto a masehla, gaba tsebe gore re filwe bogoshi bja batho le dibata tsha naga.Ke ka baka leo re binago raba raja.
= Ba ga Mohlala ga re ba nyane re ikgodiša ka legowa la pula, bana ba monamodi a ntwa ya Mogologolo re ra Hlong lehlankela Batswako ba Mosoma
= Ke morudi wa marumo a go hlabanela tsa gabo ....dikgomo tjesho gago yo a ka go dithopa eupša go ka kgaoga molamo hlogong ya yo a rumulago nna Mohlala. Mohlala mmelega ditshaba a ba a di bolotsa,ke mofenya dintwa ke fenya le basweu le mapono, ke fenyetse magoshi a mangwe dintwa. Ke rata khutso, ke hloile bao ba nthumulago.
= Ke batho bao ba boago motlamogale a magopa a re go gopa a loma a setla pelo bawedi. Bare bawedi bao Ba wela bjang ba wela ka ka theku ya rumo. Theku ya rumo ya robega ba tshea mabjana ba betsha. ke batho ba bo nngwanyane a Ratheku sedula bolepu,Modupi o dula lehu a le bona modipi holofela kgomo gageno mabele ke mpholo re epa nageng. Ke batho ba sedibana sa mong, sediba se se nwang ke mong kalana. Mmefi gee enwa sediba se se a biloga.”
“Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering we never controlled him much.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46
“Our elected officials are able to regulate even the most personal aspects of our lives, from the cleanliness of the air we breathe to the identity of the people we marry. Keeping this in mind, casting a ballot is not just essential - it's practical!”
“Our elected politicians do what they judge is the right thing to do. And if we disagree then I'll show them the evidence of why I disagree.”
“Our elections are free-it's in the results where eventually we pay.”
“Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can no longer build serially, block-by-block, step-by-step, because instant communication insures that all factors of the environment and of experience co-exist in a state of active interplay.”
Source: The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects
“Our element is unending immaturity.”
Source: Ferdydurke
“Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If we but determine it shall be so, it will be so.”
“Our emancipation means standing up for strong families, our emancipation means standing against the homosexuality agenda, emancipation for us means standing up against the repealing of the buggery law.”
“Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.”
“Our EMF meter was jumping off the charts. We found her alarm clock was causing crazy electro-magnetic fields around it. We spent $22.99 on a nice digital clock, and she never saw an apparition again.”
“Our emotional energy is a key source of abundant energy that will help us fight uncertain and abrupt challenges which the future will unfold with every passing moment.”
Source: Quantraz
“our emotional experience remains largely unexplored, and therein lie the dramas, poems, and novels." [Larry McMurtry]”
Source: Larry McMurtry: A Life
“Our emotional intelligence makes our passion intelligent or unintelligent.”
Source: How Leaders Decide: Tackling Biases and Risks in Decision Making