Practice humility and patience.
I represented the 4th District of South Carolina. . . from the election '92 until election '98. And then I was out six years and then came back for another six years between the election 2004 and the election 2010.
In fact, NSF was the leading successful efforts to improve U. S. math and science education long before the Department of Education was even created.
There's a lot of Republicans who may have in the past been critical of fellow Catholics who they call 'cafeteria Catholics' who don't follow the church's teachings -- say, on abortion, but now, are they going to become 'cafeteria Catholics' themselves and not follow the church's teachings on climate change?
The federal government can't remodel every firehouse and buy every new policeradio in the name of Homeland Security.
Many conservatives, I think, see action on climate change as really an attack on a way of life. That`s really a hard pill to swallow, that the whole way that I have created my life is wrong, you`re saying, that I shouldn`t have this house in the suburb, I shouldn`t be driving this car.
So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.
People say graphic design is so different now, because you have so many more pixels and colors to work with. . . But when you study art history, you see there's just nothing new under the sun. Mosaics and needlework, it's all analogous to pixel and bitmap art. And with it all, good design's not about what medium you're working in, it's about thinking hard about what you want to do and what you have to work with before you start.
Investing today may well be harder than it has been at any time in our three decades of existence.
My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.
Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.