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December 28, 2004
Quotations
Learning Quotes
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
- Derek Bok
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
- John F. Kennedy
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. - Benjamin Disraeli
The highest result of education is tolerance.
- Helen Keller
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
- Thomas Carruthers
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
- William Arthur Ward
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning today is young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
- Henry Ford
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
- Will Rogers
It is written that he who governs well, leads the blind; But that he who teaches, gives them eyes.
- David O. McKay
Tell me and I forget; Show me and I remember; involve me and I understand.
- Unknown
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
- William James
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
- Frank Herber
Education is not received. It is achieved.
- Author Unknown
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
- Robert Frost
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
I like to think of the landscape not as a fixed place but as a path that is unwinding before my eyes, under my feet. To see and know a place is a contemplative act. It means emptying our minds and letting what is there, in all its mulitplicity and endless variety, come in.
- Gretel Ehrlich, author
We are a landscape of all we have seen.
- Isamu Noguchi, sculptor and designer of gardens
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them t o admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
- Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
- Rumi
If you want money more than anything,
You'll be bought and sold.
If you have a greed for food,
you'll be a loaf of bread.
This is a subtle truth:
whatever you love, you are.
-Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks
The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they while their companions slept
Were toiling upward in the night.
- The Ladder of Saint Augustine.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 – 1882)
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.”
- Walter Lippmann, American journalist
Leadership, Knowledge, Success, and Personal Motivation
Some people think it’s holding on that makes one strong. Sometimes it’s letting go.
- Sylvia Robinson
Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse.
- African proverb
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
- H. Jackson Brown
Man can only survive by using the reason of the mind, the light of the heart, and the integrity of the soul.
- Anonymous
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
- Ben Hecht
The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
- Claude Levi-Strauss
It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.
- Goethe
The glue that holds all relationships together – including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
- Brian Tracy
It’s the hardest thing in the world – to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kinds of courage.
- Ayn Rand
There are no secrets to success: Don’t wast time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for who you work, and persistence.
- General Colin Powell
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
We become like those with whom we associate: : “A mirror reflects a man’s face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.
- Proverbs 27:29 TLB
I trust that even when I’m out of sight I’m not out of mind. Silences and distances are woven into the texture of every true friendship.
- Roberta Israeloff
Solitude is enjoyed only when one is at peace with oneself.
- Chinese Proverb
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us!
- Emerson
Learning is like the horizon: there is no limit.
- Chinese Proverb
Whatever your goal in life, be proud of every day that you are able to work in that direction.
- Chris Evert
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
- Bertrand Russell
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
- B.C. Forbes
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
To be unhappy over what one lacks is to waste what one already possesses.
- Chinese Proverb
The real measure of wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.
- Anonymous
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the enemy to slander you and the friend to get the news to you.
- Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar, 1911
Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.
- L. Thomas Holdcroft
It’s not the situation…it’s your reaction to the situation.
- Bob Conklin
Growth through discovery is the reward for those willing to leave the comfort zone of known personal experiences.
- Anonymous
Friendship is not a competition, rather a cooperation—each healping the other to become better.
- Anonymous
Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst.
- Walter Weckler in Newsweek
It is good to know something of the customs of various peoples, in order to judge our own more soundly and not to think that everything that is contrary to our way of doing things is worthy of scoren and against reason as those who have seen nothing commonly think.
- Rene Descartes “Discourse on Method”
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Ability may get you to the top, but it take3s character to keep you there.
- John Wooden
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
- Dave Fyson Gentry
One of the hardest things in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which bridge to burn.
- Oprah
Chances make our parents, but choices make our friends.
- Jacques Delille
The bird a nest,
The spider a web,
Man friendship.
- William Blake
Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extends. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
- Francis Bacon
Maturity is the balance between courage and consideration. If a person can express his or her feelings and convictions with courage, balanced with consideration for the feelings and considerations of another person, he or she is mature, particularly if the issue is very important to both parties.
- Anonymous
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius (551-479BC)
Harboring a grudge can only hold you back. A tree, twisted in its youth, remains that way long after the thing that twisted it is gone. The sooner you start healing your spirit, the more complete its recovery will be.
- Anonymous
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
- Norman Vincent Peale, 1898-1993
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The deepest hunger in the human soul is to be understood. The deepest hunger of the human body is for air. If you can listen to another person, in depth, until they feel understood, it’s the equivalent of giving them air.
- Anonymous
Your busy schedule has plenty of quantity. Think of how you could give it some true quality and meaning. Consider the people, the beliefs, the goals, the things which are really imp9ortant to you. Make time for them, not someday, but right now. Don’t just fill your schedule. Fill your life.
- Ralph Marston
Those who are passionate about what they do have an advantage that is nearly impossible to overcome. In passion there is energy, creativity, resilience and persistence. Passion will get it done.
- Ralph Marston
Intrinsic security doesn’t come from what other people think of us or how they treat us. It doesn’t come from our circumstance or out position. It comes from within. It comes from accurate paradigms and correct principles deep in our own mind and heart. It comes from inside-out congruence, from living a life of integrity in which our daily habits reflect our deepest values.
- Stephen Covey
Insist on yourself; never imitate.
Your own gift you can present every moment
With the cumulative force of a whole life’s cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what s/he had already achieved, but at what s/he aspires to do.
- Kahlil Gibran
Try not to become a person of success, but rather to become a person of value.
- Albert Einstein
Your vitality evolves every time you give yourself permission to pay attention to the deep-rooted things you care about.
- Carol Osborn
Make sure that the work that you are involved in on a daily basis is something that you enjoy. Your working life is a very dsignificant part of your life. Don’t waste that time in a job that is not fulfilling for you. There are always other options. Your good health depends on this.
- Anonymous
The greatest crime in the world is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.
- Roger Williams
Cut not the wings of your dreams, for they are the heartbeat and the freedom of your soul.
- Flavia
It is in quiet that our best ideas occur to us. Don’t make the mistake of believing that by a frantic kind of dashing around you are being your most effective and efficient self. Don’t assume that you are wasting time when you take time out for thought.
- Napoleon Hill and W. Clement Stone
Management is clearly different from leadership. Leadership is primarily a high-powered, right-brain activity. It’s more of an art’ it’s based on a philosophy. You have to ask the ultimate questions of life when you’re dealing with personal leadership issues.
- Stephen R. Covey
If my sense of security lies in my reputation or in the things I have, my life will be in a constant state of threat and jeopardy—a fear that these possessions may be lost, stolen, or devalued. If I’m in the presence of someone of greater net worth, fame, or status, I feel inferior. If I’m in the presence of someone of lesser net worth, fame or status, I feel superior. My sense of self-worth constantly fluctuates. I don’t have any sense of constancy, anchorage, or persistent selfhood. I am constantly trying to protect and insure my assets, properties, securities, position, or reputation.
- Stephen R. Covey
Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, “like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".
- Stephen R. Covey
It’s incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busyness of life; to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success, only to discover it’s leaning against the wrong wall.
- Stephen R. Covey
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and reach. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people’s opinions or by comparisons to others. Ironically, you’ll find that as you care less about what others think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves and their worlds, including their relationships with you. In addition, you’ll find it easier and more desirable to change because there is something—some core deep within—that is essentially changeless.
- Stephen R. Covey
Anonymous Quotes:
Your heart will take you to places that your logic can’t even imagine.
It’s fun to be busy, but the trouble starts when you try to slow down. The more manic you become, the more your efficiency drops. Sloppy work equals wasted time when you have to go back and correct it.
If you confuse pleasing yourself with impressing someone else, you may end up deeply dissatisfied.
It’s hard to keep up with others when you’re not especially interested in the race.
Stop listening to other people’s opinions once they begin to undercut your happiness.
Don’t confuse success with all the standard symbols for it. The machine of consumerism may be playing on your emotions, attempting to seduce you at every opportunity. Evaluate your situation on deeper merits.
Whatever you do, some people may never be pleased. Don only the things that matter to you.
Express your individuality. Your diverse friends are an index of your personality’s many sides.
Be a walking, talking, shining example of the principles and visions that you hold dear.
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Enjoy the Beauty of Nature
It is important to set aside time to just appreciate the beauty of nature. Watch beautiful sunsets or sunrises, sit by a running stream in the woods, or enjoy waves crashing on a beautiful beach, take a walk in a forest, or sit by a beautiful lake. Everyone should have some private place where they can get away and be enriched by nature’s beauty. It not only helps you to appreciate the beauty of life, but it also helps you to connect with that important inner part of yourself. Find a special place where you can go to enjoy this “food for your soul.
- Anonymous
Posted by Kristie at December 28, 2004 05:50 PM