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«Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.»
«Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.»
Author: Richard Cecil | Keywords: every year, fix
«Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.»
«A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind.»
«Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.»
«[Trying to fix up Monica with a date] Joey: Aw, c'mon, this guy's perfect for you. Monica: No, not after your cousin who could belch the alphabet.»
«Do not hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.»
«Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.»
«Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.»
«But I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament»