Principals Quotes

“Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their own —”

“That’s enough, Phineas,” said Dumbledore.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.”
― Warren Buffett

“Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but even higher expectations for themselves.”
― Todd Whitaker

“My own nation’s story began with simple words: All men are created equal and endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights including life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Realizing that ideal has never been easy, even within our own borders, even among our own citizens. But staying true to that story is worth the effort. It is an ideal to be strived for, an ideal that extends across continents and across oceans. The irreducible worth of every person, the insistence that every life is precious, the radical and necessary notion that we are part of a single human family—that is the story that we all must tell.”
― Ben Rhodes, The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House

“It's chemical, fancying him is purely chemical. It's intoxicating - the frisson, the attraction - it's intoxicating because it's purely chemical. But you'll just have to remember the wedding ring - divorcees don't wear wedding rings. This guy has his own Vita at home. You're his potential Suzie. Is that who you want to be? Do you want the next man in your life to have Tim's principles?”
― Freya North, Chances

“Lurid tales are the South’s principal export. - Rhett Butler”
― Donald McCaig, Rhett Butler's People

“Now that little problem of yours, this business of not knowing good men from bad men and villains from heroes and so forth...There's still plenty for you to do. And you'll do it. And when you fall in love and have a mistress or a wife and children to look after, it will all seem easier." He opened the door but stopped on the threshold. "Surround yourself with human beings, my dear. They are easier to fight for than principles." He laughed. "But don't let me down and become human yourself. We would lose such a wonderful machine." With a wave of his hand he shut the door.”
― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

“Let meditation be your mirror. See how you treat it and begin to nurture this practice as if a rose in your personal garden, watch it flourish over time.”
― Ciela Wynter, The Inner Journey: Discover Your True Self

“I might wish to consider that upon which I stand, for in fact I may be standing on nothing which means that in reality I am not standing at all.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If we can’t see it, we cannot change it.”
― Ciela Wynter, The Inner Journey: Discover Your True Self

“With awareness, we become self-aware.”
― Ciela Wynter, The Inner Journey: Discover Your True Self

“If we do our inner work, we can organize our inner world through self-inquiry, meditation, journaling, etc. which guides us in navigating the external world with consciousness. With awareness, we become self-aware.”
― Ciela Wynter, The Inner Journey: Discover Your True Self

“We are an inner world yet to be discovered.”
― Ciela Wynter, The Inner Journey: Discover Your True Self

“Beezus has told her the way to remember how to spell the kind of principal who was the principal of a school was to remember the word ended in p-a-l, and not -p-l-e, was because the principal was her pal.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8

“Nor is it wise to entrust our schools to inexperienced teachers, principals, and superintendents. Education is too important to relinquish to the vagaries of the market and the good intentions of amateurs.

American education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it is threatening to destroy public education. Who will stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?”
― Diane Ravitch, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

“To our nation’s principals and superintendents, where hides your series of leadership talks. And why? I find your performance lackluster at best. For the love of God, pick up Alfie Kohn’s book, which was published over three decades ago, and do something about it. Be better. You should foster, facilitate, not gatekeep. Demand excellence over the entirety of your school grounds from start to finish of every single school day. Excellence, and nothing less. Not for our children’s future. For their now.”
― Miles Garrett, Executive Leadership: A Warfighter's Perspective