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Change Thinking

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

- Anne Sullivan Macy

Other quotes by Anne Sullivan Macy

Will

If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself.

- Anne Sullivan Macy

Humanity History World

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.

- Anne Sullivan Macy

Teaching

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

- Anne Sullivan Macy

Wrong Experience

The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.

- Anne Sullivan Macy

May Experience

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

- Anne Sullivan Macy

Education Life Will

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

- Anne Sullivan Macy

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May Change

I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.

- Roy Orbison

Wrong Change

If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.

- John Hurt

Friends Change

It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends.

- Harvey Pekar

Editors Sense Change

For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.

- Timothy Zahn

Change Care People

I care what people think, but that doesn't change what I say. I am who I am.

- Curt Schilling

Change

In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell with the people! If someone weighs a couple more pounds, that's it!

- Itzhak Perlman