William James Quotes

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we have with others.

Study carefully the law of cause and effect.

As in nature, so in politics: Every action has a reaction.

When we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You receive from the world what you give to the world.

Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.

We're getting back what we're putting out.

What is being said is the effect of something that has happened; at the same time, what is being said is in itself something happening, which will, in turn, leave its effect.

Roz, what think??

Just as people behave to me, so do I behave to them. When I see that a person despises me and treats me with contempt, I can be as proud as any peacock.

The world has done nothing to me that I haven't done with the world.

On the stage, you enter into a bond with the audience, and you can sense they are moved by what you're doing. It's a sweet return.

I think somebody getting repulsed is a positive reaction. Any reaction is positive.

I'm always amazed that people are shocked when their despicable action causes an equally despicable reaction.

Everything you touch touches you.

When you are doing comedy, you need to get the right reaction from your partner.

I can be a receiver.

I think it's a mistake to try and overthink how you are going to be received, because that assumes that you are going to be received in the first place.

What matters is that I'm making a connection with people and getting a reaction.

What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.

Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. There are no uneducated people; only most people are educated wrong. The true task of culture today is not a task of expansion, but of selection-and-rejection. The educationist must find a creed and teach it.

Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers.

Those who trust us educate us.

We can teach only if we are willing to learn.