Adora Svitak Quotes

In many countries, schools are preparing students to participate in a democratic environment; yet schools themselves tend to be extremely autocratic, with all high-level decisions being made by adults.

Adora Svitak

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 15, 1997

Topics

DecisionsEnvironmentStudentsBeing

Legislative reforms in the 1990s and the public/private structure led managements to expand the GSEs' balance sheets to enormous size, underpinned by wafer-thin slivers of capital, driving high shareholder returns and very high compensation for management.

Jerome Powell

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Anyone with a computer and a design program can create a page layout. But unless you're trained in design, it won't look very good and it won't communicate very well.

John Maeda

GoodDesignYouLookCreatePage

There is nothing wrong with fashion - it should be a beautiful expression of who we are.

Amber Valletta

BeautifulFashionWrongNothingWho

I'm comfortable, but not satisfied and I hope to always feel that way.

Trevor Dunn

HopeFeelComfortableWayAlways

I quit 'Magnum' to have a family. It took a long time to get off the train, but I try very hard to have balance, and this ranch has helped me do that.

Tom Selleck

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I have been able to travel all over the country and see many places that I probably never would have visited. I have also participated in many charity events for worthy causes.

Rob Mariano

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I don't know if I can say exactly what I seek in books, but one of them would be to deepen and expand my understanding of the world.

Mary Gaitskill

WorldUnderstandingI CanKnowSay

I'm very conscious of people having pretty short attention spans: I know, I'm guilty of it. I'm 17 now: what happens by the time I'm 21, am I a burn-out or something? Will they still listen to my record?

Lorde

TimePeopleShortAttentionGuilty

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

Joseph Wood Krutch

NatureSnowTimeWorldLonelyYou

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.

Jawaharlal Nehru

PeopleThinkMattersMoreUsThan

When I was born, the economy wasn't in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work.

Clint Eastwood

WorkFatherGreatDepressionBorn

Motherhood gives you access to a range of different intellectual experiences and ways of seeing the world, which, in a way, makes you more flexible in the workplace. But our employers, our colleagues, don't necessarily understand.

Alissa Quart

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