Hy Gardner Quotes

Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.

It's not how smart you are that matters, what really counts is how you are smart.

You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.

The secret to success: find something you love to do so much, you can’t wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again.

The Goal of Education is to Help People Use Their Minds Better

If you are not prepared to resign or be fired for what you believe in, then you are not a worker, let alone a professional. You are a slave.

Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one's own culture.

Kids make their mark in life by doing what they can do, not what they can't... School is important, but life is more important. Being happy is using your skills productively, no matter what they are.

Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

All human beings have all of the intelligences. But we differ, for both genetic and experiential reasons, in our profile of intelligences at any moment.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Wealth can also be that attitude of gratitude with which we remind ourselves everyday to count our blessings.

I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.

Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.

When I'm old and gray, I want to have a house by the sea. And paint. With a lot of wonderful chums, good music, and booze around. And a damn good kitchen to cook in.

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

Baby steps count, as long as you are going forward. You add them all up, and one day you look back and you'll be surprised at where you might get to.

The South may not always be right, but by God it's never wrong!

It's okay to fail; it's not okay to quit.

Women's liberation as a movement makes some valid points. But in the final analysis, it doesn't matter who wears the pants - as long as there's money in the pockets.

Find something that you love. Something that gets you so excited you can't wait to get out of bed in the morning. Forget about money. Be happy.

The witches are firm believers in reincarnation, and they say that 'once a witch always a witch.'

If I had my life to live over again, I'd live it the same way. Maybe a few changes here or there, but nothing special. The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.

I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.

Don't ever let someone tell you you can't do something.

If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.

Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.

It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.

Although no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl's values

I do everything for a reason. Most of the time the reason is money.

There is no plan B for passion

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth of a theorem is almost seen at a glance.

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.

The world is your oyster. It's up to you to find the pearls.

You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.

Elizabeth Taylor is not beautiful, she is pretty—I was beautiful.

It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.

Being creative means first of all doing something unusual... On the other hand, however unusual it may be, the idea also has to be reasonable for people to take it seriously.

In the spiritual search doubt is beneficial, a closed mind is not. Doubt used wisely assists enlightenment; a closed mind assists ignorance.

You know you're getting old when everything hurts. And what doesn't hurt doesn't work.

It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.

Don't think that I'm silly for liking it, I just happen to like the simple little things, and I love cats!

No habit has any real hold on you other than the hold you have on it.

Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.