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«A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.»
Author: Charles de Gaulle
| About:
Leadership
| Keywords:
breathless, element, excited, grasp, sleeve
«I've come to the frightening conclusioin that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized.»
Author: Dr. Haim Ginott
| About:
Children,
Education,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
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«Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.»
Author: Dr. Joyce Brothers
(Author, Columnist, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
comfortable, compliment, element, granted, taken for granted, trusted
«Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood»
Author: Jean Giraudoux
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
element, falsehood, in the air
«Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness»
«Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.»
Author: Theodor W. Adorno
| Keywords:
breeds, critical, critics, element, forgets, implicitly, indispensable, revenges
«All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory / of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| Keywords:
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«Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
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