“Pessimists are just as illogical as optimists; insomuch as both envisage the aims of mankind as unified, and as having a direct relationship (either of frustration or of fulfilment) to the inevitable flow of terrestrial motivation and events. That is - both schools retain in a vestigial way the primitive concept of a conscious teleology - of a cosmos which gives a damn one way or the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitos, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy.” MenWayWantGivingSchoolFormMotivationEnergyTreeMankindDogEventsConsciousConceptsFlowDirectUltimateHorseAimOne WayInevitableWelfareDamnFrustrationCosmosPrimitiveRatsOptimistPessimistUnifiedFulfilmentIllogicalFungiLice Author:H. P. Lovecraft
“At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find the inner motivation to search for new ideas on your own. With any luck at all, you’ll never need to take an idea and squeeze a punchline out of it, but as bright, creative people, you’ll be called upon to generate ideas and solutions all your lives. Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.” PeopleWorldWayNeedsMindIdeasPlayProblemSchoolMotivationCreativeSolutionsLuckSolveBest WayNew IdeasThrustCreative PeoplePunchlines Author:Bill Watterson
“I learned a lot of different things from different schools. MIT is a very good place…. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that every member of the whole place thinks that it’s the most wonderful place in the world—it’s the center, somehow, of scientific and technological development in the United States, if not the world … and while you don’t get a good sense of proportion there, you do get an excellent sense of being with it and in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on” IfsThinkingWorldDifferentStatesWholeSchoolSpiritDesireMotivationUnitedUnited StatesLearningWonderfulDevelopmentMembersVery GoodExcellentProportionDifferent ThingsTechnologicalGood SensePlaces In The WorldGood PlaceLogical ThinkingMitWonderful PlacesTechnological Development Author:Richard P. Feynman
“Let the professionals like doctors & engineers teach in schools once a week. Let's make teaching a national movement necessary for Nation building.” SchoolMotivationNationsTeachWeekTeachingMovementBuildingDoctorsIndiaEngineersNation Building Author:Narendra Modi
“It's not the school, the curriculum, or the teacher, but motivation that is the single most important ingredient in learning.” ImportantSchoolMotivationTeacherIngredientsCurriculum Author:Ivan Sutherland
“The business schools could do a better job teaching face-to-face management, the actual work of organizing and helping along the efforts of others in the organization. The more quantitative disciplines have gotten more attention, often more research dollars. Areas like organizational science or, even mushier, leadership have had more trouble settling on what it's important to teach, and how. It's rather like strategy itself, which as I argue in the book, has had trouble through most of its history figuring out how to incorporate people, their motivation and ability, into its calculations.” PeopleImportantBookHelpingSchoolMotivationAbilityEffortAttentionTeachTroubleTeachingDisciplineManagementStrategyArguingSettlingOrganizational Author:Walter Kiechel
“As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid's grammar school, I know that education is all about discipline and motivation. Disadvantaged students need extra attention, a stable school environment, and enough teacher creativity to stimulate their imaginations. Those things are not expensive.” KnowsNeedsEnoughSchoolMotivationImaginationAttentionClassCreativityEnvironmentTeacherStudentsDisciplineHigh SchoolFormerExtrasExpensiveStableGrammarSchool TeachersDisadvantagedGrammar SchoolHigh School Teachers Author:Bill O'Reilly
“With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.” TryingReasonActionSchoolMotivationEffectsBalanceAchievementHigh SchoolConceptsBuiltTestsPrejudiceAcceptedScoreStatisticsAcademicTestingAffirmative ActionYaleAffirmativeClassmatesPrincetonTest ScoresAcademic Achievement Author:Sonia Sotomayor
“Boys are 30 percent more likely than girls to drop out of school. In Canada, five boys drop out for every three girls. Girls outperform boys now at every level, from elementary school to graduate school.” InspirationSchoolMotivationGirlThreeLevelsBoysFivePercentCanadaGraduatesElementary SchoolGraduate School Author:Philip Zimbardo
“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.” ThinkingTryingChildrenBigsSchoolMotivationFearInterestMistakeEducationClassTeachLearningFailingProduceNuclearScalesGradesEtcStayingExplosionsBig MistakeGrades In SchoolStudent LearningFirecracker Author:Stanley Kubrick
“At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.” WorldIdeasSchoolMotivationNew IdeasThrust Author:Bill Watterson
“Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.” LifeMotivationalSchoolMotivationAttitudeSkillsExcellenceGraduationSoftballFamous Motivational Author:Ralph Marston
“Nobody wanted me. Scouts told me to go to school, to forget baseball. Coaches said, 'You're never going to make it.' I appreciated their honesty, because I think when someone tells you something you may not like, you have to use that as fuel for motivation.” ThinkingInspirationalMaySaidUseWantedSchoolMotivationSportsForgetHonestyLike YouBaseballAppreciationCoachesFuelInspirational SportsAppreciatedCatchersBaseball Coach Author:Mike Piazza
“At difficult times of my life, books have been an incredible comfort. When I was 12, I changed schools and my parents split up. It was then that I became addicted to reading. A great writer can attach themselves to your mind and heart, and you feel you understand the world better. As long as you have the capacity to read, you needn't be alone any more. I remember thinking as a child, "If I could give one person the comfort I keep getting from books, then I want to write."” IfsThinkingWorldWantGivingFeelsWritingMindHeartChildrenPersonsLongHas BeensArtBookSchoolRememberMotivationReadingParentDifficultChangedComfortCapacityIncrediblesIf I CouldSplitsHeart And MindDifficult TimesGreat WritersTime Of My Life Author:Elliot Perlman