You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.

One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.

There is no algorithm for creativity.

The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.

We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.

Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.

It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.

Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.

The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.

We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!

The identification of fantasy is always an attempt to avoid one's own suffering: the identification of art is the sharing in the suffering of another.

Let thy power be

Without deviance from normality, there can be no progress.

In L.A. you can hide. I can hide at the beach, hide up in the hills. In Miami everybody is looking at you.

It's the only time that I'm ever nervous on stage, is when we're doing live TV. Especially an awards show, because I know you can't fix it.

When you get to know someone, you find there's something nasty in their woodshed.

I made an impulse buy of a house in Maine to make my wife happy and now have gone back into debt and it's all started over for me.

One rule I had was make your best pitch and back up third base. That relay might get away and you've got another shot at him.

Eventually the person who tries to fix the problem will be blamed for causing it.

What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?