Stephanie Pace Marshall quotes

“Adding wings to caterpillars does not create butterflies. It creates awkward and dysfunctional caterpillars. Butterflies are created through transformation.”
-- Stephanie Pace Marshall

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“The nature of schooling as we know it has become the unquestioned answer to educating our children. It is not. Knowing what we now know, we can no longer do what we now do. It is time to reconnect our children and our systems to their abundant learning potentials and reengage them in the joy of learning.”
-- Stephanie Pace Marshall

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“Learning emerges from discovery, not directives; reflection, not rules; possibilities, not prescriptions; diversity, not dogma; creativity and curiosity, not conformity and certainty; and meaning, not mandates.”
-- Stephanie Pace Marshall

Source : Stephanie Pace Marshall (2006). “The Power to Transform: Leadership That Brings Learning and Schooling to Life”, p.38, John Wiley & Sons

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“The creative life of the commercial photographer is like the life of a butterfly. Very seldom do we see a photographer who is really productive for more than eight or ten years.”

“You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.”

“Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.”

Source : Amy Lowell (2009). “A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass”, p.19, ReadHowYouWant.com

“Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.”

“September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.--from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001”

“Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, Some pure ideal of a noble life That once seemed possible? Did we not hear The flutter of its wings, and feel it near, And just within our reach? It was. And yet We lost it in this daily jar and fret, And now live idle in a vague regret; But still our place is kept, and it will wait, Ready for us to fill it, soon or late. No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been.”

“Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.”

Source : Aga Khan III, Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah (agha khan) (1954). “The Memoirs of Aga Khan: World Enough and Time”

“A beautiful blossom is a fleeting thing It stays for a moment and then takes wing: With special rays we catch it ere flight So all may enjoy the beautiful sight.”

“The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.”

“I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.