Lev Quotes

What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.

By giving our students practice in talking with others, we give them frames for thinking on their own.

The true direction of the development of thinking is not from the individual to the social, but from the social to the individual.

A child’s greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.

The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider.

What children can do with the assistance of others might be in some sense even more indicative of their mental development than what they can do alone

Through others we become ourselves.

Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.

The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech

It is through others that we become ourselves.

Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them

Language is the tool of the tools

Thought is not merely expressed in words, it comes into existence through them

Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them

The only 'good' learning is that which is in advance of development.

A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.

What kind of a goalkeeper is the one who is not tormented by the goal he has allowed? He must be tormented! And if he is calm, that means the end. No matter what he had in the past, he has no future.

Everybody has a capacity for a happy life. All these talks about how difficult times we live in, that's just a clever way to justify fear and laziness.

Analysis, if it is really carried out with a complete concentration of his powers, forms and completes a chess player.

Give a man food, and he can eat for a day. Give a man a job, and he can only eat for 30 minutes on break.

Most important part of doing physics is the knowledge of approximation.

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

A method is more important than a discovery, since the right method will lead to new and even more important discoveries.

I am not the best goalkeeper in the world, it is Vladimir Beara.

The trick is to smoke a cigarette to calm your nerves and then take a big swig of strong liquor to tone your muscles.

Something that is yours forever is never precious

Product of optimism and knowledge is a constant.

There have only been two world-class goalkeepers. One was Lev Yashin, the other was the German boy who played for Manchester City.

There is reason to believe that voluntary activity, more than highly developed intellect, distinguishes humans from the animals which stand closest to them.

Writing should be meaningful for children, Y an intrinsic need should be aroused in them, and Y writing should be incorporated into a task that is necessary and relevant.

The joy of seeing Yuri Gagarin flying in space is only superseded by the joy of a good penalty save.

Psychology teaches us at every step that though two types of activity can have the same external manifestation, whether in origin or essence, their nature may differ most profoundly.

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.

Cosmologists are often in error, but never in doubt

It's true that all men are pigs. The trick is to tame one who knows how to find truffles.

Any unique image that you desire probably already exists on the internet or in some database... the problem today is no longer how to create the right image, but how to find an already existing one.

We turn our own lives into an information archive by storing all our emails, SMS, digital photos, and other digital traces of our existence.

I always thought that cemeteries gave me some sense of perspective

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

Money is in the exponent. And exponent needs to be calculated precisely.

We mathematicans are all a bit crazy.

Why add prime numbers? Prime numbers are made to be multiplied, not added.

Once we came to accept the photographic image as reality, the way to its future simulation was open.

My most difficult opponent is myself. When I am playing I often involuntarily make a world champion out of a candidate master.

You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.

If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation of species, but of its destruction.

The digital image annihilates photography while solidifying, glorifying and immortalizing the photographic.

Islam united all heresies persecuted in Byzantine Empire and synthesised them well into a conseffion that later became a symbol of Arab self-affirmation.

If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.