Jo Robinson Quotes

As a mom, you worry about protecting your kid. But there are extra added layers of fears when you're talking about a kid with autism or who has some special needs issue.

I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.

I just wanted to say things that women wanted to say, but were afraid to.

Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile.

Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

Don't be concerned with what you can't do. Work on what you can do - then count your blessings.

Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts.

Feel empowered. And if you start to do it, if you start to feel your voice heard, you will never go back.

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

Today's human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow's conflicts.

There is always a delightful sense of movement, vibration and life.

I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.

Don't let anything without a heart beat you.

Dream big; at least you will have the joy of reaching for the stars instead of living in a box filled with unopened gifts.

Life is not a spectator sport.

What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.

The only thing worse than being exploited by capitalism is not being exploited by capitalism.

If your not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.

Fighting, to me, seems barbaric. I don't really like it. I enjoy out-thinking another man and out-maneuvering him, but I still don't like to fight.

You don't think. It's all instinct. If you stop to think, you're gone.

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

Be anything you want to be, but don't be dull.

To make progress we have to build a multi-stakeholder process, harnessing the appropriate energies.

Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.

The God who speaks with utmost integrity must have messengers who represent him well.

The first task in teaching for creativity in any field is to encourage people to believe in their creative potential and to nurture the confidence to try.

I've got sunshine on a cloudy day

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid.

How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.

It is only a little planet, but how beautiful it is.

I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music

Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.

Climate change is the greatest threat to human rights in the 21st century.

The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.

Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they are capable of achieving.

You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.

Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.

Ideology is like breath: you never smell your own.

The first essential for economists ... is to ... combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values which can be measured in terms of money are the only ones that ought to count.

I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.

Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

For many wealthy people, giving a tenth is a way of robbing God. Their tithe becomes a tip.

When he (Richard Nixon) took the oath of office, he pledged to be the president for 100% of the people, and I challenge the president to prove that he is being the president for 100% of the people.

A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is time to let the leaves rain from the skies, Let the rich life run to the roots again.

If you feel like loving me, if you've got the notion, I second that emotion.

Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.

Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.