Students would be assessed on effort rather than skill. You didn’t have to be a natural athlete to do well in gym.
– John J Ratey
Related Quotes:
- Not every Gym Rat will become MVP, but every MVP is a gym rat. – Byron SogieThomas
- Exercise is not an instant cure, but you need to get your brain working again, and if you move your body your brain won’t have any choice. – John J Ratey
- When students cheat on exams it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning. – Neil deGrasse Tyson
- School overpopulates students’ minds with too much of what happened yesterday; seldom with what the students can do today, or, tomorrow. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Gym is a sacred place which makes your life feel worth existing by putting effort of care into the home of your soul called body! – Munia Khan
- Isn’t it interesting, that a black man, who is a Muslim, and has the name -˜Muhammad’, is the most beloved athlete in the world? – Hamza Yusuf
- Like an athlete trains, so must the student of life. – Elizabeth SalamancaBrosig
- Mother-in-laws are necessary, as are mosquitoes, athlete’s foot, and beets. – Ed Williams
- There is no great person in history who gained mastery in a particular skill without first investing so much time into perfecting that skill. – Sunday Adelaja
- To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. – Sun Tzu
- Skill without passion would have been drudgery. Passion without skill would have been torture. – Sweety Shinde
- Time should be seen and assessed in seconds, minutes, hours and days – Sunday Adelaja
- Time should be assessed as seconds, minutes and hours so as to be maximized effectively – Sunday Adelaja
- Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed. – Alan Jacobs
- Advice should only be given when it is sought, otherwise our own worthiness gets assessed. – Dada Bhagwan
- In a relationship, no amount of extra effort on your part can make up for a lack of effort on theirs. – John Mark Green
- Making good decisions is a skill anyone can develop with effort. – Mensah Oteh
- Day after day, week after week; writing great fiction takes time, emotion, skill and effort. – Carla H Krueger
- The skill of writing needs much patience, practicing, and time. There is no good writing from a quick effort, or a confused writer. – Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi
- Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes. – Albert Camus
- Getting up early and feeling awake was the one skill he had never truly perfected – he got up, of course, but it never felt natural. – Larry McMurtry
- ..English teachers often take a right-wrong stance. I’d rather my students take a thinking stance. – Jeff Anderson
- I do not need to grow up or train in the gym in order to beat the devil, when I know that my God can beat him for me. – Patience Johnson
- Life is one big gym where we need to constantly workout to stay fit for this world. And indeed love here is the treadmill. – Munia Khan
- People tell me I shouldn’t smoke because it is makes you look like a tit. I use exactly the same argument when people tell me they go to the gym. – Robert Clark
- Let others slap each others on the back while you’re back in the lab or the gym or pounding the pavement. – Ryan Holiday
- Society is better off with me in a gym. – KA Tucker
- The people inside the gym didn’t stand a dead drunk’s chance. – Steven Ramirez
- Through the metal bars of the jungle gym, she watches two gray squirrels chase each other around a tree. Around and around and around. So gratuitous. – Thomas Pierce
- If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it. – Elizabeth Berg
- The roof was torn off the gym. God’s way of telling the jocks that they’d better remember who’s really charge. – Dana Reinhardt
- Going to the gym at this odd hour didn’t ‘work out’ for me. – Abheek Kakkar
- He’d started falling for her the moment she walked into Devil’s Dip Gym. She’d KO’d him and there was no going back. – Avery Flynn
- Never under-estimate your effort, no matter how little. Every effort, little or great is a step closer towards the actualisation of your dreams. – Chinonye J Chidolue
- Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim-”arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object. – Jack Kornfield
- It takes good effort to begin and a great effort to complete a task. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Understand that great accomplishments require great effort. If a goal is achieved without effort, it is no accomplishment but a mere happening. – Richelle E Goodrich
- Individual effort is good but collective effort is better. We need a NETWORK of nation builders – Fela Durotoye
- Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. – Alan W Watts
- Very few changes in life areachieved without effort and acommitment to making that effort. – Domonique Bertolucci