High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past.

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 tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.

Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.

Lyrics always fall short with the amount of energy thrown into the playing. Lyrics to some extent are just the product of a singer's insecurity with singing.

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

I take inspiration from everything around me, also relationships and friends. And the inside of my crazy head.

By voting, we add our voice to the chorus that forms opinions and the basis for actions.

The way you discover your gifts is really by serving not by searching.

I have found that long durational art is really the key to changing consciousness. On such a deep level. Not just the performer, but the one looking at it.

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

What is aught but as 'tis valued?