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“For those parents from lower-class and minority communities[who] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, external institutions or have had negative and hostile contact with social service agencies, their initial approaches to the school are often overwhelming and difficult. Not only does the school feel like an alien environment with incomprehensible norms and structures, but the families often do not feel entitled to make demands or force disagreements.”

“So, I installed a CCTV system to tape what's going on inside my mind. Thousands of hours of drama, confusion, discussion, huge special effects and futuristic scenarios. Also a lot of chatter, drama and suspense. Is like to go to the movies for free, every day. The CCTV technology used is the SSM-X45. Whose initials stand for: Sit down, Shut up and Meditate (X45 is just to sound more hi-tech)”

Mind Used Sound Hours Technology Meditation Special Effects Huge Drama Confusion Suspense Discussion Movie Tape Shut Up Initials Scenarios Chatter Special Effects Futuristic

Author:Marcelo Goianira

“In my art and life, I really strive to reverse the old adage that what you see is what you get. If I can be Coyote and practice my sneak-up, I can engage the viewers from a distance with one image and lure them in for exposure to another layer, which changes the initial view into quite a different reality. After all, that is what ethnic culture is all about - or even an ongoing relationship. What you see on the surface is never the same again one you begin to plumb the depths.”

“If the Church is in Christ, its initial act is always the act of thanksgiving, of returning the world to God.”

Ifs World Christ Church Initials

Book:For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy

Source: For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy

“When discouraged some people will give up, give in or give out far too early. They blame their problems on difficult situations, unreasonable people or their own inabilities. When discouraged other people will push back that first impulse to quit, push down their initial fear, push through feelings of helplessness and push ahead. They're less likely to find something to blame and more likely to find a way through.”

People Way Giving Firsts Feelings Problem Difficult Situation Giving Up Blame Quitting Impulse Inability Initials Discouraged Helplessness Unreasonable Difficult Situations

Author:Steve Goodier

“I remember playing Coachella and seeing kids in the audience who weren't even born when we had our initial run of success. They were singing along to every word, which was an amazing thing to see.”

Running Kids Remember Born Audience Seeing Singing Initials Amazing Things Coachella

Author:David Lovering

“I like every part [of the film process ] except the business and admin stuff. The initial idea. Writing. Re-writing. Casting. Directing, Editing. If I had to chose I'd say writing, followed by putting music on the picture. That is magical.”

Ifs Writing Ideas Film Stuff Process Editing Casting Initials

Author:Ricky Gervais

“I think one of the biggest mistakes you can make as a writer is to follow your initial [writing] plan too stringently. A story needs room to grow and evolve.”

Thinking Needs Writing Stories Grows Rooms Mistake Plans Evolve Initials Biggest Mistake

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“I think Pringles initial intention was to make tennis balls. But on the day that the rubber was supposed to show up, a big truckload of potatoes arrived. But Pringles is a laid back company. They said, "Screw it. Cut 'em up!"”

Thinking Said Shows Humor Bigs Funny Company Cutting Balls Intention Tennis Ems They Said Screws Potatoes Initials Rubber Laid Back Tennis Balls Pringles

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“A child starts from nothing and advances alone. It is the child's reason about which the sensitive periods revolve. The reason provides the initial force and energy, and a child absorbs his first images to assist the reason and act on it.”

Firsts Children Reason Energy Force Teaching Periods Sensitive Initials Force And Energy

Author:Maria Montessori

“Once the initial excitement wears off and it's time to sit down to write, the authors are usually still very eager, but the reality of doing the work can be a little daunting.”

Writing Littles Stills Reality Excitement Initials

Author:Deborah Reber

“A quarter-horse jockey learns to think of a twenty-second race as if it were occurring across twenty minutes--in distinct parts, spaced in his consciousness. Each nuance of the ride comes to him as he builds his race. If you can do the opposite with deep time, living in it and thinking in it until the large numbers settle into place, you can sense how swiftly the initial earth packed itself together, how swiftly continents have assembled and come apart, how far and rapidly continents travel, how quickly mountains rise and how quickly they disintegrate and disappear.”

Ifs Thinking Earth Together Can Do Numbers Race Consciousness Minutes Mountain Opposites Horse Twenties Disappear Settling Quarters Continents Initials Large Numbers Nuance Jockeys

Author:John McPhee

“Never accept the initial premise of the opposition.”

Accepting Opposition Initials Premises Assessment

Author:John W. Campbell

“Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.”

Giving Firsts Said Strong Morning Findings Essence Down And Presses Very Strong Conferences Initials Press Conferences

Author:William Scranton

“The initial organisation, we called ourselves the Network Working Group, consisted of 6 to 10 people. We then quickly grew to 30 people and then to 50 people.”

People Groups Grew Initials Organisation

Author:Steve Crocker

“Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters.”

Character Literature Grows Deals Situation Events Plot Logical Status Quo Sequence Initials Incidents Challenging The Status Quo Sequence Of Events

Book:Write Away: One Novelist's Approach To Fiction and the Writing Life: One Novelist's Approach To Fiction and the Writing Life

Source: Write Away: One Novelist's Approach To Fiction and the Writing Life: One Novelist's Approach To Fiction and the Writing Life

“Like a stone thrown into a pond, a good deed can create ripples that extend far beyond the initial splash.”

Women Stones Deeds Thrown Good Deeds Initials Ponds Ripple

Author:Jeanne Phillips

“And if I'm running away from something, I try to make myself face it and overcome that initial fear. As a director, I don't think it's possible to make a movie that you really don't want to make.”

Ifs Thinking Want Trying Running Faces Directors Overcoming Running Away Initials

Author:Takashi Miike

“The challenge in writing the songs for The Aristocats truly fell on the animators & director of the film. Robert & I wrote the initial songs for the film, just prior to leaving full-time employment at the Walt Disney Studios. Therefore, some of the songs we wrote for The Aristocats were never used. I believe, therefore, the challenge fell upon the makers of the film to select what songs made the final cut.”

Writing Believe Made Film Used Song I Believe Challenges Cutting Directors Finals Leaving Studios Employment Makers Initials Select Walt Animator

Author:Richard Sherman

“[Writing something original from scratch], the initial process is way different. But once it exists and you start to actually work on making it real, then the approach is kind of the same, for me anyways.”

Way Writing Kind Different Real Process Approach Originals Scratches Initials

Author:Zack Snyder

“Sometimes I'll read things in the script and think, "That's not how humans behave," or "I don't understand how to do that role and make it seem like I'm not some kind of strange alien or on a sitcom." I don't get it, and when I feel that way, I have to listen to my instinct. My initial instinct does lead me in a direction that I can trust.”

Thinking Way Feels Humans Kind Doe I Can Sometimes Seems Roles Strange Instinct Scripts Aliens Behave Initials Sitcom Leading Me

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“Linux has more than satisfied any small initial expectations I had. It's simply incredible how successful Linux has been, and how good a time I've had developing it and leading the project. It does take a lot of my time, but it's time I really enjoy spending, and Linux has continued to be challenging both technically and from a managing standpoint.”

Doe Has Beens Enjoy Challenges Successful Projects Expectations Incredibles Spending Satisfied Developing My Time Initials Standpoint Linux

Author:Linus Torvalds

“Many companies forget what it means to make great products. After initial success, sales and marketing people take over and the product people eventually make their way out.”

People Way Mean Forget Company Products Marketing Initials Sales Success

Author:Steve Jobs

“A man who has his initials on his pyjamas must be uncertain of himself. Surely you should know who you are at bed time.”

Knows Men Should Bed Who You Are Uncertain Initials Bed Time

Author:Robert Morley

“With the initial focus groups and the initial look-sees, the Rams are a very popular team in Southern California. And so one of the reasons that it was attractive to us to work against them is because they have that good flavor.”

Looks Reason Focus Groups Team California Attractive Southern Flavor Initials Very Popular Rams Southern California Focus Groups

Author:Jerry Jones

“We came to recognize that our initial thinking about the keys to educational reform was wrong. The key variables weren't pedagogical. They weren't financial. They weren't curricular. They weren't research. They weren't any of the usual things we've always talked about as the engines of change. The variables were deeply emotional and cultural.”

Thinking Emotional Keys Research Financial Educational Reform Usual Engines Initials Variables Educational Reform

Author:David Edward

“I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.”

Years Firsts Five Five Years Initials

Author:James Rothman

“It's important to choose initial investors who are not twitchy and rushing for an exit. Wall Street's quarter-by-quarter lens may make the CEO make sub-optimal long-term decisions.”

May Long Important Term Decision Streets Wall Long Term Investors Quarters Ceo Lenses Initials Exit Rushing Optimal

Author:Roelof Botha

“We are talking about mutated women, the result of cruel genetic experiments performed by fashion designers so lacking in any sense of human decency that they think nothing of putting their initials on your eyeglass lenses. The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates. If a normal woman puts on clothing designed for these unfortunate people, she is quite naturally going to look like Revenge of the Pork Person.”

“As soon as science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement. Guided by empirical data, the investigator rather develops a system of thought which, in general, is built up logically from a small number of fundamental assumptions, the so-called axioms. We call such a system of thought a theory. The theory finds the justification for its existence in the fact that it correlates a large number of single observations, and it is just here that the 'truth' of the theory lies.”

“The poor quality of Christian that grows out of our modern evangelistic meeting may be accounted for by the absence of real repentance accompanying the initial spiritual experience of the converts. And the absence of repentance is the result of an inadequate view of sin and sinfulness held by those who present themselves in the inquiry room.”

May Real Christian Spiritual Grows Sin Poor Rooms Results Views Quality Modern Meetings Absence Repentance Inquiry Initials Inadequate Spiritual Experience Sinfulness Poor Quality

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“It's great to have two cars and a swimming pool. But there are disappointments. After you've made some money and acquired some things, and after the initial excitement has passed, life goes on, just as bewildering as it always was, and the great problems of life and death once again come to the fore.”

Made Two Problem Car Goes On Disappointment Excitement Life And Death Swimming Pool Initials Life Goes On Swimming Pool

Author:Robert Heilbroner

“My god has always been a laissez-faire deity, giving you the initial goods and sending you on to make your way.”

Way Giving Goods Initials Deities Laissez Faire

Author:Jane Hamilton

“Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight of them gave me an initial emotion, little by little their real presence grew indistinct they became a fiction for me, then they disappeared, or rather, were turned into problems of all kinds. For me they are no longer two figures but shapes and colours, don't misunderstand me, shapes and colours, though, that sum up the idea of the two figures and preserve the vibration of their existence.”

Thinking Kind Littles Two Ideas Real Problem Interest Emotion Existence Fiction Figures Painting Grew Shapes Sight All Kinds Preserves Colour Initials Vibrations

Author:Pablo Picasso

“It would be very curious to record by means of photographs, not the stage of the picture, but its metamorphoses. Perhaps one would perceive the path taken by the mind in order to put its dreams into a concrete form. But what is really very curious is to observe that fundamentally the picture does not change, that despite appearances the initial vision remains almost intact.”

Mind Mean Doe Dream Would Be Form Order Vision Path Taken Records Stage Remains Photograph Appearance Despite Curious Perceive Concrete Initials Metamorphosis

Author:Pablo Picasso

“The most fundamental decision we all face over the course of our lives is what we will recognize as the ultimate reality, the uncaused source and cause of our existence. Everything else in our worldview depends on that initial decision. The Bible speaks of this foundational choice in terms of who or what we worship. We must all answer the challenge Joshua issued to the Israelites as they were poised to enter the Promised Land: "Choose this day whom you will serve" (Josh. 24:15).”

Source: Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes

“I've always lived a life where what you see if what you get. I've never wanted to live two different lifestyles. The initial transition for me was perhaps the most difficult. It wasn't easy communicating what I believed and what my values were. Establishing that as a young adult was interesting. I was 20 years old when I got saved.”

Ifs Years Two Different Wanted Young Values Easy Difficult Interesting Adults Young Adult Communicate Saved Lifestyle Transition Initials Different Lifestyles

Author:Kelly Clark

“In the entrepreneurial world, when you launch a company, you have a particular idea, a particular product, a particular service, almost always you pivot, you shift. The market reacts to your initial idea. You make some adjustments. It's only after making a few adjustments that you see the success.”

World Ideas Company Particular Products Initials Adjustment Entrepreneurial

Author:Steve Case

“Be patient with yourself and take heart. Your self-confidence will grow if you seek challenges and worry less about the initial insecurity.”

Ifs Heart Self Grows Challenges Worry Patient Self Confidence Insecurity Initials Be Patient Worry Less

Author:Wendy Lustbader

“I've always been kind of drawn to the extremities of human nature. I wrote my first screenplay when I was 16. The initial idea was a friendship between two prostitutes, and I spent time with a vice squad guy in Cincinnati who brought me to a brothel and gave me the rundown on how street prostitution works.”

Firsts Humans Kind Two Ideas Guy Streets Human Nature Vices Initials Prostitution Screenplays Squad Extremity Brothels

Author:Veena Sud

“I attribute my whole success in life to a rigid observance of the fundamental rule - Never have yourself tattooed with any woman's name, not even her initials.”

Whole Names Fundamentals Attributes Success In Life Initials Observance Tattooed

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.”

Self Philosophy Consciousness Excess Initials Corrections Subjectivity

Book:Process and Reality

Source: Process and Reality

“You can make initial contact with someone who does not speak your language with signs or smiles, but to communicate you need words. So it is with a nation; to understand it you have to read its books”

Needs Doe Book Speak Language Nations Communicate Contact Initials

Author:Geoffrey Dutton

“But it is as silly to think about peer-to-peer as applying just to music as it would have been to think about the Internet as applying just to pornography. Whatever the initial use of the technology, it has nothing to do with the potential of the architecture to serve many other extremely important functions.”

Thinking Has Beens Important Use Technology Internet Function Architecture Silly Peers Pornography Initials

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“You may not realize initially how many other opportunities are wrapped up inside the first one. After you go through the first door, you'll then discover more doors automatically opening behind that one. One door leads you to another door, which leads to another door, and so one. It's like ten other boxes packed inside one box. The initial door that God opens is your access to more opportunities. But you must be willing to walk through the first one to get to the other good things God has for you.”

Firsts May Opportunity Realizing Walks Behinds Doors Willing Ten Good Things Boxes Access Opening Initials

Author:George Foreman

“My starting point is the fundamental initial fact that each one of us is perforce linked by all the material organic and psychic strands of his being to all that surrounds him. . . . If we look far enough back in the depths of time, the disordered anthill of living beings suddenly, for an informed observer, arranges itself in long files that make their way by various paths towards greater consciousness.”

“Make your initial contact short and sweet. Five sentences or less, or under 150 words. If someone instant messages you while you're online, go ahead and IM them back if you want. Otherwise, wait twenty-two to twenty-three hours between email contacts for the first few messages. Don't send messages while most people are sleeping, even if you're wide-awake. Shoot for business hours or just after dinnertime.”

People Ifs Want Firsts Two Three Waiting Hours Sleep Five Sweet Messages Twenties Sentences Wide Contact Awake Instant Online Email Initials Twenty Two Wide Awake Short And Sweet

Author:Amy Webb

“The overwhelming joy of conversion or a new calling is often followed by feelings of being overwhelmed with duties and doctrines. The first joyous feelings are real and give one much-needed initial momentum. But the genuine exhilaration is soon followed by the need to perspire and to pedal.”

Needs Giving Firsts Real Feelings Joy Duty Needed Calling Conversion Genuine Doctrine Overwhelming Overwhelmed Initials Momentum Joyous Exhilaration Pedals Being Overwhelmed

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“The whole culture of wearing flags on our lapel and saying 'we' when referring to the United States and, even the 'shock and awe' of the initial stages, it was just too jubilant and just a little uncomfortable.”

Littles States Whole Culture United United States Stage Uncomfortable Awe Shock Flags Initials Referring Shock And Awe

Author:Katie Couric

“But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors, or sub oppressors. The very structure of their thought has been conditioned by the contradiction of the concrete, existential situation by which they were shaped. Their ideal is to be men; but for them to be men is to be oppressors”

Men Has Beens Situation Struggle Stage Ideals Structure Strive Liberation Contradiction Concrete Existential Oppressed Initials Be A Man Oppressors Pedagogy Pedagogy Of The Oppressed

Book:Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

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