A Quote by Haim Ginott

When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment. This is the modus operandi of a mutual frustration society.

Haim Ginott

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Children Deaf Deaf Ears Ears Falls Frustration Gentle Modus Operandi Mutual Persuasion Punishment Rebuke Resort Return Ridicule Society Then Threats

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Haim Ginott
Israeli - Educator
August 5, 1922 - November 4, 1973

My modus operandi is to become a better actor.

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Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi; Consider the Empire and Gandhi.

Ogden Nash

My modus operandi has always been understatement and that just doesn't really work in pop.

Ben Watt

Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

Richard Foreman

Hacking into a victim of crime's phone is a sort of poetically elegant manifestation of a modus operandi the tabloids have.

Steve Coogan

In the end, for me, music is such an internal thing that to let the outside world influence would be against my modus operandi.

Kevin Parker

My modus operandi hasn't really changed that much from when I was an English teacher. I wanted my students to leave my classroom loving reading and wanting to read more, and if they left my classroom thinking that reading is boring, then I haven't done my job.

Rick Riordan

People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?

H. L. Mencken

It's indispensable to fully understand the basis and modus operandi of the Law of Karma to orientate the ship of our life in a positive and exemplary way.

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Sometimes it gets a little uncomfortable to not do everything. That was my modus operandi for many years, but I just feel like I want to do challenging roles.

Josh Pais

For most people, honesty is such an unusual departure from their standard modus operandi - such an abherration in their workaday mendacity - that they feel obliged to alert you when a moment of sincerity is coming on.

Zoë Heller

My old modus operandi was, if you're going to have a grilled cheese and bacon sandwich, don't have one, have two. If you're going to have vanilla wafers, you have the whole box.

Al Roker

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

Annie Lennox

I think a pretty good modus operandi is to believe that everything we know is wrong. The stomach will be the key to depression or consciousness or we'll realize ants are smarter than people.

Scott McClanahan

My modus operandi after working for a decade as a self-funding freelancer, was to spend as little money as possible to get the job done, even if it was on someone else's nickel.

Peter Menzel

When I was growing up, traveling was my family's modus operandi. Between the ages of 4 and 18, I attended six different schools on three different continents.

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