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It always happens that when a man seizes upon a
neglected and important idea, people inflamed with the same notion crop up all
around.
— Mark Twain, |
I am the only unique me that will ever be. I have the
power to make a difference in this world.
I look forward to talking on the grand adventure of life, living, and always
remembering to be myself.
— Catrinka |
A day isn't wasted if a memory is made.
— Unknown |
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Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people
attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore,
depends on unreasonable people.
— George Bernard Shaw |
For human beings, nurture is our nature. The
capacity for culture is part of our biology, and the drive to learn is
our most important and central instinct ...Our unique evolutionary
trick, our central adaptation, our greatest weapon in the struggle for
survival, is precisely our dazzling ability to learn when we are babies
and to teach when we are grown-ups. — Gopnick, Meltzoff, and Kuhl |
What we learn with pleasure we never
forget. – Alfred Mercier |
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It seemed so clear to me—once I'd wised up to the idea that life is not a
straight road with no exit ramps—that life presented
opportunities all along the way for a person to change directions. — Alice Steinbach |
When nothing is certain,
everything is possible.
— Unknown |
The cure for anything is
salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
— Isak Dinesen |
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we
did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so
welcome.
— Anne Bradstreet |
Learning is what most adults will do
for a living in the 21st century. — Sydney Joseph Perelman, Writer |
Training is
everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but
a cabbage with a college education. — Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson |
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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable than that
of liberty and learning, each leaning on the other for their
mutual and surest support? — James Madison, 1822 |
Just as the hand, held before the eye, can
hide the tallest mountain, so the routine of everyday life can keep us
from seeing the vast radiance and the secret wonders that fill the world.
— Chasidic |
Confidence, like art, never comes from
having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.
— Earl Gary Stevens |
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It's learning that keeps us alive, curiosity that keeps us learning. — Central Virginia Public Television |
The only successful way to predict the future is to invent it. — Alan Kay |
we are each at the center of the universe. so is everyone else. — e.e. cummings |
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Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny. — Carl Schurz 1829-1906
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I wonder what my intuition will toss up to me like gifts from the sea. — Dr. Jonas Salk |
Education, whether for success or failure, is never finished. Building and sustaining the settings in which individuals can grow and unfold, not "kept in their place," but empowered to become all they can be, is not the only task of parents and teachers, but the basis of management and political leadership and simple friendship. — Mary Catherine Bateson, Composing a Life, 1990 |
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In any community in transition, it is more important whom you know than what you know. That's the right definition of networking. — Peter F. Drucker in Wired Magazine
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There are three rules of work: 1. Out of clutter, find
simplicity. — Albert Einstein |
The problem is not how to get new thoughts into your mind, but how to get the old ones out. — Nancy Austin, co-author of A Passion for Excellence: The Leadership Difference
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Do not accept the conventional
wisdom...Trust your instincts...Allow yourself a wide latitude in your
speculations...Spread all your hunches out before you, and go with the
ones that you think are most probable.
— Dictum, |
The universe lies before you on the floor,
in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From
this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
— Agnes De Mille |
It is no failure to fall short of realizing all that we might dream. The failure is to fall short of dreaming all that we might realize. — Dee Hock, Founder & CEO Emeritus VISA |
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We think it's about technology tools, but teachers are not sure what exactly to do with these tools. The tendency is to apply new tools to old tasks. — Andy Moore |
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough. — Charles Dudley Warner |
In the 21st century, the education and skills of the work force will be the dominant competitive weapon. — Lester Thurow |
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming. — Goethe |
We must have the courage to examine everything, discuss everything and even to teach everything — Condorcer |
Live as if you were to die tomorrow; learn as if you were to live forever. — M. K. Gandhi |
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Nothing will ever be
attempted — Samuel Johnson |
We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn. — Mary Catherine Bateson |
In the old economy, the challenge for management was to make product. Now the challenge for management is to make sense. — John Seely Brown |
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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. — Winston Churchill
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Life is a play. It's not its length, but its performance that counts. — Seneca
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Be who you are — Dr. Seuss |
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