Words matter. These are the best Principal Quotes from famous people such as Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Michael Gove, William Joyce, Louis de Bernieres, Anthony Storr, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The principal challenge of the next phase of the Negro revolution is to make certain that equality of results will now follow. If we do not, there will be no social peace in the United States for generations.
I think the principal purpose of education is to allow each of us, when we become adults, to shape our own future.
I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal’s office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career.
Like many men, I am not ashamed to admit that my principal joys are domestic. I love cooking, and I love looking after my children. Indeed, the times that I have with them are the only ones when I feel unconditionally happy.
If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.
The principal and only way to make an heirloom product is to design something that people will need not just this year, but for the next 50 or 100 years.
My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.
The Iraq war was always a long shot. But it was made immeasurably longer by its principal architects in Washington, including Douglas Feith, who ignored expert advice, reserved most of their effort for fighting each other in ideological battles, and regarded the Iraqi people as an afterthought.
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
I wasn’t that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my father was for a long time the president of the Board of Education. That was always a hard note to bring home.
So much has changed in our business. E-books, that’s been one of the principal developments. There has been also the failure of Borders and the rise of Amazon, just to name two others.
In practice, the copyright system does a bad job of supporting authors, aside from the most popular ones. Other authors’ principal interest is to be better known, so sharing their work benefits them as well as readers.
‘Unexpected Legacy’ reports the findings of the California Children of Divorce Study, which began in 1971, a year after the nation’s first no-fault divorce law was imposed in California. Wallerstein was the principal investigator on the study.
Even in the early stages of my career I’ve had to dance with principal dancers. I could have easily freaked out and got nervous, but I think that helped when it came to trying to forget I was doing a scene with Judi Dench.
I got my group together when I was about thirteen. We had a local radio show, and then we started touring for the principal of the high school – he was in the Lions Club, and so we were the entertainment.
One of my principal childhood memories is hearing one of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies waft throughout the house.
I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.
A principal struggle of many young companies is to establish an identity, a philosophical and emotional core, and LAIKA is no exception.
Everything is expressed through relationship. Colour can exist only through other colours, dimension through other dimensions, position through other positions that oppose them. That is why I regard relationship as the principal thing.
We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
In 1978, we adopted a new Bankruptcy Code in the United States, and a principal part of this was designed to adjust to the new corporation, to find ways to let a corporation that had gotten into financial trouble reorganize itself. A big part of the selling point on this bankruptcy law was, ‘It will preserve jobs.’
The Royal Ballet was good to me. They gave me everything I asked for. It’s just… I felt tricked. I became a principal and I couldn’t even afford to pay for dinner. I couldn’t afford a flat.
And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.
Our principal role as designers is to accelerate new ideas and the adoption of new ideas.
I don’t know how good a principal I would be. I kind of like being the second.
School grades can help determine how well a principal or school leader is doing, and yeah, you need to have some way to evaluate schools.
There’s nothing more important than our good health – that’s our principal capital asset.
My principal once told me that I was a penny waiting for change. But I suspect that I irritated him probably because I was making more money than he was.
I’m very proud of the colour of my skin and that I’m inspiring people from all backgrounds, but I think it will be great for the next mixed-race or black female principal dancer if she doesn’t have to be asked about that.
It’s a very hard goal. But, what I want is to tell people who are getting bullied to stand up to the bully and not let it be OK – tell a teacher, the principal, or your parents. I want people to stand up and to be confident.
Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor’s job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.
The occasion of this sadness is expressed in a word, but must be considered in many more, as being the principal concernment both of the Text and Time.
I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.
Right now we’re on the President Obama plan, and we’ll stay with that. And from my perspective, the reason we’re there is to make sure that we can achieve the principal goal which is ensure that Afghanistan can never become a safe haven for a terrorist organization like al Qaeda.
When I got the deal to do ‘J. Edgar,’ which was really the brainchild of Brian Grazer, ‘Milk’ hadn’t come out yet. We had just completed principal photography, and it was still basically this little film where we just really hoped someone would see it.
I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn’t serious because I was smart. I wasn’t like a true troublemaker, just rambunctious – like, talkative and trying to be funny. That was me in middle-school.
When we all start to wake up and realize that our comforts are fleeting, and more money is never going to save this world, maybe, just maybe, will we be able to return back to the grace of America’s principal values.
A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.
Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.
40 years old is about the time a principal dancer would start to think about retirement, but some go on to dance a little bit longer than that.
The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.
When your principal artists deliver convincing performances, the film’s quality is elevated.
Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour.
Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.
Top 1 Percent progressivism emphasizes the idea of fairness – but it’s nevertheless a politics of outrage, animated by at least a trace of envy. It’s as if ‘millionaires and billionaires’ were the principal problem facing America today.
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
Rather than have it the principal thing in my son’s mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.
Of all the things we have done, the most important – the one that history will record as the principal contribution of our generation – is that we understand how to turn the armed struggle into a Revolution; that we realized that it was essential to create a new mentality to build a new society.
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
My principal motivation is supporting my family, which is not a bad reason for getting up in the morning. That’s always been my motivation – to take care of the people who rely on me.
Flattery was one of Kissinger’s principal tools in winning over Nixon, and a tool he employed shamelessly.
If I were John Bolton, I’d take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws.
