A Quote by Lester Frank Ward

The result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils.

Lester Frank Ward

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Lester Frank Ward
June 18, 1841 - April 18, 1913

The secret of the superiority of state over private education lies in the fact that in the former the teacher is responsible to society ... [T]he result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils.

Lester Frank Ward

The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.

Vladimir Lenin

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

Archer John Porter Martin

If what we are doing with our anger is not achieving the desired result, it would seem logical to try something different.

Harriet Lerner

There is no long interval between the sense of thirst and the trickling of the stream over the parched lip; but ever it is flowing, flowing past us, and the desire is but the opening of the lips to receive the limpid, and life-giving waters. No one ever desired the grace of God, really and truly desired it, but just in proportion as he desired it, he got it; just in proportion as he thirsted, he was satisfied.

Alexander MacLaren

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Bertrand Russell

Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

Leo Tolstoy

It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.

Gustav Mahler

I don't have to go very far to see the power of beauty. Being desired, feeling desired is a very seductive aspect of our being.

Nicolas Winding Refn

A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained.

P. T. Barnum

Truth is best (of all that is) good. As desired, what is being desired is truth for him who (represents) the best truth. (Gathas 27.14)

Zoroaster

As soon as you become aware that something is not working, immediately shift your focus to the desired result.

Alan Cohen

Clearly, the qualities Poles admire in a secretary of state - foreign languages, diplomatic experience, even sense of humor - are emphatically not those desired in a head of state: So be it.

Anne Applebaum

Star voices are not cheap. So if they're not bringing the desired result for the studio, why not pay the VO artists better.

Rajesh Khattar

All religions are ultimately cargo cults. Adherents perform required rituals, follow specific rules, and expect to be supernaturally gifted with desired rewards long life, honor, wisdom, children, good health, wealth, victory over opponents, immortality after death, any desired rewards.