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"No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence."
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"With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!"
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"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."
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Personal Development
"If you can find your perfect job, create one."
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Personal Development
"Salary is the currency that is gotten from mortgaging your life and time."
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Personal Development
"Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard."
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"Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper."
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"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."
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"I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital."
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"The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process."
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"Working overtime is an underpaid man's salvation."
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"There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing."
Quality
"We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher."
Teaching
"I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture."
Education
"The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned."
Education
"If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior."
Change
"Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?"
Work
"Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy."
Democracy
"You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school."
Knowledge
"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
"If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve."
Education
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