Al Duncan Quotes

No one is mandating merit pay.

Money is not the reason that people enter teaching.

City Year is taking on some of the toughest work in education.

Almost 24 million children - one in three - are likely growing up without their father involved in their lives.

I think every student needs access to technology, and I think technology can be a hugely important vehicle to help level the playing field.

We all have a role to play - the President, Congress, parents, students and schools - in making college affordable and keeping the middle class dream alive.

Hungry children are distracted children. We want to make sure nothing gets in the way of our children performing well academically, including hunger.

It's very simple... this banging around with a camera and typewriter as a business is just one helluva lot of fun.

I would question any fee. Let them know you're comparison shopping among several lenders.

The principles that will save Earth's life are the same principles that save the living souls of humans: ineluctable spiritual principles.

The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.

When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.

Is the work of sun worshippers to honor those who think they can see the sun? Or to worship the sun?

My books are inert as cordwood till a readers imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.

You, me, & your papa are 3 of the tiny percentage of souls on this miserable earth who've figured out that playing ball is the highest purpose God ever invented the human male body for.

Fiction writing feels more honest to me.

I'd taken a big fat crisis off my shoulders and loaded it all on Jesus, which seemed unfair in a way, but was exactly what the Bible recommended.

If you want freedom you have to come to terms with being okay in the now doing nothing.

Simon Jones was so important and is going to be a big loss. It is a chance for someone like James Anderson to step up to the mark

India is the one area of the sub-continent where we haven't won since I have been involved with England

It might be a move in six months. But I'll make up my mind. I'll have a look at where I've been and where I want to go and I'll continue in that way.

I keep coming back to the phrase "Dance with the system" - not just march onwards no matter what happens.

Floundering around, learning by doing but also by failing, is not only good but inevitable.

If you were disabled in Russia, you had to re-register every year, and it took up to six months to re-register, so people who lost limbs in Afghanistan had to prove that their leg hadn't grown back.

Somewhere like Russia or China, decision-makers have far fewer constraints on acting than in more open systems.

There are always pressures on decision-makers other than just what is right or what is wrong.

Lots of people in the open system are very determined to try and strengthen evidence-based policy.

To be effective at selling ideas, at being a lobbyist, influencing other people, you have to be very sure of yourself.

I see [activists] getting really angry that people won't just do what the evidence tells them, and that's not very helpful. You need to actually think why that is.

There's no point in just hankering for the big trade unions of the 1950s or '60s.

I sound like a church nut, but look at the role of the churches in the civil rights movement in the States. People are brought together in other ways that can become drivers of change.

In any system, there will be change happening without you.

I have to be sure of myself - in a conditional way, always being open to the possibility that I'm wrong.

The magic formula is there is no magic formula.

In the end, that's a blind alley - we have to get back to being able to think on our feet and react.

What you don't do is just say, "I've got all the ideas and all the knowledge, and listen to me."

Activists can get very preachy about things. It's more about understanding people's own experiences and tapping into them.

The question, "When did you last listen to a poor person properly and try to understand what's going on inside their own experience?" enables you to connect.

We should look at how "the enemy" - people that you wouldn't necessarily agree with - have done change and see whether there's bits in there that we could learn from.

More people will die from hit-or-miss eating than from hit-and-run driving.

Media scrutiny is a great trademark of the American political arena.

Of all the nations in the world, the people of the United States like freedom maybe a little better than anybody else.

You've got soldiers in the 3rd Infantry Division who are going every day on operations and they don't all have what is considered to be the gold standard in armor

They (#ISIS) are going to be bombing American cities coming across from Mexico.

A number of people who have supported me on the border fence in the U.S. have observed the fences in Israel and their effectiveness.

This century is going to be a very dangerous century.

I think that idea of being far away from the people that you love is something that everyone can relate to.

I'm a cruel man to myself.

I think we tried to make a film [Moon] that was about human beings as opposed to going from one special effects set piece to the next one, which is what a lot of science fiction films these days do.

Sam Rockwell has a fantastic sense of rhythm.