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"What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher."
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"He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them."
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"A : I know what you're going to say, B.B : Yes, I've dreamed about this chat, A."
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"Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation."
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"Prayer is for every moment of our lives, not just for times of suffering or joy. Prayer is really a place, a place where you meet God in genuine conversation."
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"The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees."
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"When beginning a conversation, ask the other person, "Do you have time to speak right now? If they say no, you can say, "I have some valuable information to share with you. What time would work best for you?"
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"14 Awesome Conversation Starters - 1. What do you do for fun? Hobbies, recreation. 2. What are your super powers? Gifts, talents, strengths. 3. Good morning! It's great to see you! 4. What is your story? Tell me about yourself. 5. What brought you to __________? 6. Do you have anything special happening in your life (or your business)? 7. What's the best thing that's happened this week? 8. Are you living your life purpose or still searching for it? 9. What gives you passion and makes you happy to be alive? 10. Do you have any pets? 11. How do you know the host? 12. When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? 13. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be? 14. What's next on your bucket list?"
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"One of Brando's problems is that he can't have a conversation with anyone."
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"For, let me tell you that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me are the pleasure and charm of conversation."
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"I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger."
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"Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship."
Education
"Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment."
Choice
"It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice."
Choice
"We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to."
Choice
"In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help."
Quality
"If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement."
Education
"Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, or perhaps later in life, yes when we should say no."
Life
"This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth."
Education
"We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system."
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"No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence."
Work
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