Lowell Milken famous quotes

The power of recognition is one of the strongest forces for stimulating human and social action.
-- Lowell Milken

#Recognition #Action #Social

The need to assure that every child has the opportunity afforded by good teachers is urgent. As urgent as the need to be well nourished and for exactly the same reason. A child's growth depends on it.
-- Lowell Milken

#Teacher #Children #Opportunity

Good teachers are to education what education is to all other professions—the indispensable element, the sunlight and oxygen, the foundation on which everything else is built.
-- Lowell Milken

#Teacher #Oxygen #Foundation

In every endeavour, people make the difference, and just one person has the power to make a profound difference in the lives of so many people.
-- Lowell Milken

#Differences #People #Profound

That education is the most important of all professions is a message the public should hear and understand. And, as importantly, a message that our educators need to hear as well.
-- Lowell Milken

#Important #Needs #Messages

Education provides the fullest opportunities for fulfilling ourselves. It is the access to all that a person has yet to learn.
-- Lowell Milken

#Opportunity #Fulfilling #Persons

The most direct and enduring way to reach the mind and imagination of the learner is through the mind, imagination and character of the outstanding teacher.
-- Lowell Milken

#Teacher #Character #Imagination

The future belongs to the educated.
-- Lowell Milken

#Education #Educated

Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience. To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable. Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition. When we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather than, say, by what we can describe- we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see. We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.

In terms of finding that first international recognition of my work, coming back to Cannes is such a milestone in my life because it began actually with 'Devdas'.

Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from social relationships.

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.

Fatherhood is a relationship of love and understanding It is power and action. It is counsel and instruction.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.

A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.

And the venality of those Judaized is incapable of explaining anti-Semitism as a social phenomenon, we will call it the anti-Semitic theory.

Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control.