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Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. – English Proverb

The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame. – Rod Steiger, 1925-2002, American Actor

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. – Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849, American Poet/Novelist/Short Story Writer

It’s not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.

– Moliere

Use soft words and hard arguments. – English Proverb

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. – Frederick Douglass, 1817-1895, American Abolotionist

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. – Confucius, 551-479 B.C., Chinese Ethical Teacher and Philosopher

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you. – Wally Amos, American Entrepreneur and Founder of the "Famous Amos" Cookie Brand

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. – Harrison Ford, American Actor

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. – Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American Author

It's not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about? -Henry David Thoreau

"Why is it that research on school turnarounds rarely if ever mentions the role of power, threats, coercion, guilt, and in-your-face supervision? Narratives of school improvement often read like politically correct fairy tales in which hard work and commitment prevail. Is it possible that behind the scene lurks a different story, one characterized by conflict, confrontation, and authoritarian measures?"

-Daniel Duke (educator), "What We Know and Don't Know About Improving Low-Performing Schools" Phi Delta Kappan, June 2006

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers. – William Penn, 1644-1718, British Religious Leader and Founder of Pennsylvania

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a lifetime's experience. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1841-1935, American Jurist

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. – Margaret Fuller, 1810-1850, American Journalist/Critic/Activist.

BMV1-2 A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. – Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1893-1986, Hungarian-born American Biochemist

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. – Chinese Proverb

It is not enough to aim; you must hit. – Italian Proverb

Jim Collins, who said, “Good is the Enemy of Great.”

Albert Einstein defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

Are you willing to do things differently in order to have a different outcome? -- The Ten Commitments – By David Simon, M.D.

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

– Leo Buscaglia, 1924-1998, American Author and Expert on Love and Human Relationships

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, American Poet and Essayist

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another. – Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, Hall of Fame American Football Coach

"Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy".

Sir Isaac Newton, 1642-1727

 “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.  Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.” 

                                       Marianne Williamson

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. – Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it. – Oprah Winfrey, American Talk Show Host/Actress/Entrepreneur

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. – Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Writer and Satirist

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. – George E. Woodbury, 1855-1930, American Literary Critic and Poet

We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. – Aristotle, 384-322 B.C., Greek Philosopher

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. – James Thurber, 1894-1961, American Cartoonist/Humorist/Author

The palest ink is better than the best memory. – Chinese Proverb

When humor goes, there goes civilization. – Erma Bombeck, 1927-1996, American Journalist/Author/Humorist

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. – Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German Philosopher

Charles Darwin Quote of the Month:

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. – Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American Scientist/Publisher/Diplomat

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in ërror. – Andrew Jackson, 1767-1845, 7th President of United States of America

You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return. – Arthur Miller, 1915-2005, American Playwright

SBV1-1 Music can change the world because it can change people. – Bono, Irish Musician/Social Activist/Lead Singer of U2

SBV1-1 The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. – Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish Artist

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. – Oprah Winfrey, American Television Talk Show Host/Actress/Entrepreneur

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. – Ansel Adams, 1902-1984, American Photographer

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. – Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886, American Poet

Love and eggs are best when they are fresh. – Russian Proverb

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged. – Helen Keller, 1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author and Lecturer

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. – Maya Angelou, American Author and Poet

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. – Thomas Edison, 1847-1931, American Inventor/Entrepreneur/Founder of General Electric

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be. – Jose Ortega y Gasset, 1883-1955, Spanish Philosopher

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. – Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, 16th President of the United States

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. – Mohandas Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian Political and Spiritual Leader

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. – Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, British Novelist

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've nëver banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work -- and realizing what is opportunïty and what isn't. – Lucille Ball, 1911-1989, American Actress/Comedian/Star of "I Love Lucy"

Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace. – Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004, 40th President of the United States

Actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends. – George Washington, 1732-1799, 1st President of the United States

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, 16th President of the United States

There has nevër yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. – Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, 26th President of the United States

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. – Euripides, 484-406 B.C., Greek Tragic Dramatist

The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle. – Source Unknown

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse. – George Washington, 1732-1799, 1st President of the United States

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. – George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish Dramatist and Nobel Peace Prïze Winner

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. – Neil Armstrong, American Astronaut and Test Pilot

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day. – Barbara De Angelis, American Author and Expert on Relationships and Personal Growth

The best way to predict the future is to create it. – Peter F. Drucker, American Management Consultant and Author

..........."Education is learning what you did'nt even know you did'nt know."  Daniel J. Boorstin, 1924-

Nevër a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again. – Bret Harte, 1839-1902, American Author and Poet

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. – Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish Artist

"The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty."

-Eugene McCarthy (1916-2005), elected official/public servant/peace activist/poet

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. – Leo Buscaglia, 1924-1998, American Author and Expert on Love and Human Relationships

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. – Henry Ford, 1863-1947, American Industrialist and Founder of Ford Motor Company

Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it. – Swedish Proverb

Without humility there can be no humanity. – John Buchan, 1875-1940, Scottish Novelist and Politician

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. – Aesop, 620-560 B.C., Greek Fable Author

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

– Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist and Short Story Writer

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was hëre first. – Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American Writer and Humorist

I would prefer even to fail with honor than wïn by cheating. – Sophocles,

496-406 B.C., Greek Tragic Dramatist

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles. – Stephen R. Covey, American Speaker/Trainer/Author of "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People"

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1809-1894, American Author and Poet

If you don't program yourself, life will program you! – Les Brown, American Speaker/Author/Motivator

Determination is the wake-up call to the human will. – Tony Robbins, American Author/Speaker/Peak Performänce Expert

“Each person must live their life as a model for others.”
- Rosa Parks

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong. – David Letterman, American Talk Show Host/Comedian/Television Producer

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. – Charles Darwin, 1809-1882, English Naturalist

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. – B.B. King, American Blues Guitarist and Songwriter

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. – Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881, Scottish Author/Essayist/Historian

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. – Rachel Carson, 1907-1964, American Biologist/Ecologist/Author

One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade. – Chinese Proverb

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear. – William Jennings Bryan, 1860-1925, American Lawyer and Politician

It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner. – Jonas Salk, 1914-1995, American Microbiologist

Inventories can be managed, but people must be led. – H. Ross Perot, American Businessman/Politician/Founder of Electronic Data Systems

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. – Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Former First Lady of the United States

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. – Karl Marx, 1818-1883, German Political Philosopher and Social Theorist

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. – Woodrow Wilson, 1856-1924, 28th President of the United States

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert. – B.C. Forbes, 1880-1954, Scottish-born Financial Journalist and Author

You can live a lifetïme and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. – Beryl Markham, 1902-1986, English Aviator

The marble not yet carved can hold the förm of every thought the greatest artist has. – Michelangelo, 1474-1564, Italian Renaissance Painter and Sculptor

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

– Adlai Stevenson, 1900-1965, American Politician and Statesman

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision. – Maimonides, 1135-1204, Spanish-born Jewish Rabbi/Physician/Philosopher

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. – Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Statesman and Prime Minister

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams. – E.V. Lucas, 1868-1938, English Writer

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself.

That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent. – Sophia Loren, Italian-born Film Actress

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. – Robert Frost, 1874-1963, American Poet

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration. – Kurt Lewin, 1890-1947, German-born Psychologist

Defeat doesn't finish a man--quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits. – Richard M. Nixon, 1913-1994, 37th President of the United States

 Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake. – Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862, American Essayist/Poet/Naturalist

I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come. – Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, 16th President of the United States

Nevër feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self. – Millicent Fenwick, 1910-1992, American Diplomat and Congresswoman

 “Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.” – John Quincy Adams

“It's nevër too late to be what you might have been.” – George Elliot

No pessimist ever discovered the secrët of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. – Helen Keller

 “Self-esteem--an estimation of who I am apart from what I do.” – Nathaniel Branden

“Always know in your heart that you are far bïgger than anything that can happen to you.” – Dan Zadra

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. – John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963, 35th President of the United States

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. – Peter F. Drucker, American Management Consultant and Author

Avoiding the phrase “I don’t have time...”, will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life. – Bo Bennett, American Businessman

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. – Henrik Ibsen, 1828-1906, Norwegian Playwright

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!"

Then get busy and find out how to do it. – Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, 26th President of the United States

Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose. - Heinrich Heine, 1797-1856, German Poet and Journalist

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought--that is educated. – Edith Hamilton, 1867-1963, American Writer and Educator

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging. – Hank Aaron, Hall of Fame American Baseball Player

If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting. – Dïck Vermeil, American Football Coach

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. – Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, British Novelist

Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble. – French Proverb

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. – Denis Waitley, American Author/Speaker/Peak Performance Expert

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation. – Jack Nicklaus, American Golfer

Do what you love, love what you do, and deliver more than you promise. – Harvey Mackay, American Businessman/Speaker/Author

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own. – Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Statesman and Prime Minister

In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with. – Brian Tracy, American Trainer/Speaker/Author

Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline... too much work.

Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with... something about yourself, your career, your spouse. – Dale Dauten, Nationally Syndicated Columnist and Author

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do and you've done it! – Margaret Thatcher, Former Prime Minister of Great Britain

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. – Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955, American Author and Trainer

Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. – Mother Teresa, 1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. - H.

Jackson Brown, Jr., American Author of “Life's Little Instruction Book®”

Series

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams. – E.V. Lucas, 1868-1938, British Journalist and Essayist

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. – Betty Smith, American Novelist

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open. – Rose Lane, 1886-1968, American Author and Journalist

Optimism means expecting the best, but confidence means knowing how to handle the worst. Never make a move if you are merely optimistic. – The Zurich Axioms

The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose. – E.M. Gray

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. – Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850, French Novelist

Whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. – Swedish Proverb

There is more to life than increasing its speed. – Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian Political and Spiritual Leader

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. – Michael Jordan, Legendary American Basketball Player

When you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else. – Joseph Campbell, 1904-1987, American Folklorist and Mythology Expert

There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.

– Rusty Berkus, Writer/Author

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. – Dalai Lama, Spiritual and Temporal Leader of the Tibetan People

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. – Marcus Annaeus Seneca, 3 B.C. -

65 A.D., Roman Philosopher/Dramatist/Statesman

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person. – David M. Burns

The rock that is an obstacle in the path of one person becomes a stepping stone in the path of another. – Source Unknown

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you’d better be running. – Source Unknown

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it…Autograph your work with excellence. – Source Unknown

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. – Lao Tzu, Chinese Taoist Philosopher

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. – Alan Kay, American Computer Scientist

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is. – Ernest Hemingway, 1898-1961, American Writer

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. – David Carradine, American Actor and Ex-Marine

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. – Thomas A. Bennett

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day. – Alexander Woollcott, 1887-1943, American Columnist and Critic

That which we persist in doing becomes easier - not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things, instead of using people and loving things. – Author Unknown.

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit. – E.E. Cummings, 1894-1962, American Poet

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. – Warren Buffett, American Investment Entrepreneur

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress. – Alfred A. Montapert, American Author

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. – Henry Drummond, 1786-1860, British Banker, Politician, Religious Leader

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking. – Johann von Goethe, 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world. – William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

-Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the Ark.

Professionals built the Titanic. -Anonymous

-You have to learn how to turn the tables on the ego.  The only way to forgive what is within is to forgive what seems to be without.- From Gary Renard's book The Disappearance of the Universe http://www.garyrenard.com/specialoffer.htm

-Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve! - Andrew Carnegie, 1835-1919, American Industrialist, Philanthropist

I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. – Roy Croft, 1907-1973, Poet

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. – Helen Keller, 1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, Amorist

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1900-1944, French Aviator and Writer

"We never ask the meaning of life When we are in love." – Bhagwan Osho

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means. – Leo Buscaglia, 1924-1998, American Author and Expert on Love and Human Relationships

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. – Frederick Koenig

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings. – Brian Tracy, American Author/Speaker/Businessman

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. – James Allen, 1864-1912, British-born American Essayist and Author of “As a Man Thinketh”

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin. – Ivan Turgenev, 1818-1883, Russian Author

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached. – Franz Kafka, 1883-1924, German Novelist and Short-Story Writer

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it  elsewhere.  -Agnes Repplier, 1858-1950, American Author, Social Critic

Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the  trees. -Williard Marriott, American Businessman, Founder of Marriott Hotels

"It is an illusion to think that peace can be attained by strength of arms, it can only be found within yourself by all who are peaceful & defenseless."

-Deepak Chopra, East-Indian- American M.D.,  New Age Author, Lecturer

Take the attitude of a student. Never be too big to ask questions. Never know too much to learn something new. - Og Mandino, 1923-1996, American Motivational Author, Speaker

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. - Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it. - Stevie Wonder 1950-, American Musician, Singer, Songwriter, Producer

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1819-1892, American Poet

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. - Galileo, 1564-1642, Italian Physicist and Astronomer

From small beginnings come great things. – Proverb

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing.

The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself:

Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win. Channel your energy. Focus. – Carl Lewis, 1961-, American Track Athlete

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. - Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1867-1957, American Author, ''Little House on the Prairie''

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. - John Steinbeck, 1902-1968, American Author

It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that truly makes him a man.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man himself will not find peace. Albert Schweitzer, 1875-1965, German Born Medical Missionary, Theologian, Musician, and Philosopher

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.  - James Allen, 1864-1912, British-born American Essayist, Author of “As a Man Thinketh”

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it. - William James, 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has discovered the most valuable secret of a diplomat. - Robert Estabrook

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. - James A. Froude, 1818-1894, English Historian

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. - Elizabeth Bowen, 1899-1973, Anglo-Irish Novelist

Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Liz Smith, 1923-, American Journalist, Gossip Columnist

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. --Jawaharlal Nehru, 1889-1964, Indian Nationalist, Statesman

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

-Jack Kinder

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests. -John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873, British Philosopher, Economist

Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but calmness within the storm.

-Anonymous

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer. Barbara De Angelis, American Expert on Relationship & Love, Author

CHAMPIONS RISK what others DARE not; DREAM what others think impossible; DO what others say can't be done.  Jason James Hun, Author

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. - Bernard M. Baruch, 1870-1965, American Financier

There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. - Norman Vincent Peale, 1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reasons for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of

reality.- Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

Gandhi's belief, it seems appropriate to end with another of his quotes: 

"Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service

or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately,

our desire for service will steadily grow stronger and we will make not

only our own happiness, but that of the world at large."

Gandhi said, "In a gentle way you can shake the world." Here are some

things to think about how to do just that.

Teddy Roosevelt's timeless

advice, "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."- *Nathaniel Hawthorne -{1804-1864 American Novelist}

"You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life. -Les Brown {American Motivator Lecturer}

In the final analysis there is no solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed.- Clare Booth Luce

One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.  - Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), 1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA

It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. - John Andrew Holmes

If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? -Rabbi Hillel, 30B.C - 9 A.D., Jewish Rabbi, Teacher

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. - Mary Lou Cook

-The best opportunities in life are the ones we create. Goal setting provides for you the opportunity to create an extraordinary life. -Gary Ryan Blair {Goals Coach & Founder of The Goals Guy}

- Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil; our great hope lies in developing what is good. -Calvin Coolidge, 1872-1933,  Thirtieth President of the USA

People deal too much with the negative, what is wrong.... Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom.

-Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist Monk, Teacher

At the age of 20, we don't care what the world thinks of us; at 30, we worry about what it is thinking of us; at 40, we discover that it wasn't thinking of us at all.  - Unknown

Ask, and it will be given you; Seek, and you will find; Knock, and it will be opened to you. - Bible

"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are."

-ee cummings (poet)

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. - Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

You see things and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were and say, "Why not?" George Bernard Shaw

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei

 "With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not

see."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. , 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

It's never too late to realize your ambitions. Take the first step by daring to dream big dreams. Then have the confidence to take a few risks and make those dreams a reality. You'll be glad you did. -- Don MacRae, President of the Lachlan Group

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. - Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.  - Clint Eastwood, Actor

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. - John Andrew Holmes

Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty- Anne Herbert

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.  - James Allen

If you put a small value upon youself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. - Unknown

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must use it, as it is given only once.

Once wasted you cannot get it back.-Unknown

-Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours." - John Locke, 1632-1704, British Philosopher

-If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.~ Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist

-I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.

-Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919,  Twenty-sixth President of the USA

-I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. -Helen Keller

{1880-1968 American Blind/Deaf Author & Lecturer}

-If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

-Nikki Giovanni {American Poet}

-Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you. -Wayne Dyer {American  Psychotherapist & Author}

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes. -John Ruskin, 1819-1900, English Philosopher

There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence. -Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American Football Coach}

I wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

-Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist

-The most essential factor is persistence, - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come. -James Whitcomb Riley, 1849-1916, American Poet

-Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing." --Albert Schweitzer, 1875-1965, German Born Medical Missionary, Theologian, Musician, and Philosopher

-Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.- -Robert Collier, American Writer, Publisher

-Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness had genius, power and magic in it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

-If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. - Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862, American Essayist,  Poet, Naturalist

-Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.- Marabel Morgan

-Better to do SOMETHING imperfectly than to do NOTHING flawlessly.

-Robert Schuller ,1926-, American Minister (Crystal Cathedral), Author, Social Leader

-Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. - John Wooden, 1910- ,American Basketball Coach

-Two men looked from prison bars. One saw mud...the other, stars. - Unknown

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. - Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968, American Civil Rights Leader

-Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. --Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

-Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.-Ralph Waldo Emerson {1803-1882 American Poet & Essayist}

-A life lived in fear is a life half lived' -Tara Morice as Fran, from the movie "Strictly Ballroom"

-No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?  -Lee Iacocca  Retired Automobile Executive

That best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts; Of kindness and love. - William Wordsworth, 1770-1850, British Poet

SBV1-2: But the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. -Arthur C. Clark 1917-, British Science Fiction Writer

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. -Ralph Waldo Emerson {1803-1882 American Poet & Essayist}

-The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. -  Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

-It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

-Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski, 1821-1881, Russian Novelist

-I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.-Thomas Paine, 1737-1809, Anglo-American Political Theorist, Writer

"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves." - Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt, 1767-1835, German Statesman, Philologist

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. --George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

"There are powers inside of you, which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become." – Orison Swett Marden, 1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine

-When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. - Alexander Graham Bell, 1847-1922, British-born American Inventor of Telephone

-The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Ann Landers, American Advice Columnist

-Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826, Third President of the USA

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul." -Charles Buxton, 1823-1871,  British Author

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. - English proverb

"Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger and we will make not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large." -- Mahatma Gandhi

-Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right

efforts will inevitably bring about right results.   James Allen,

1864-1912, British-born American Essayist, Author of ''As a Man Thinketh''

-He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses courage and faith loses all. - Miguel de Cervantes, 1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

-An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity. Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister

-Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough. I can single-handed move the world. Give me a place to stand, and I will move the earth. -  Archimedes (287-212 B.C.E.)

-Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary.

 -Mother Teresa, 1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary

-Live with intention.  Walk to the edge.  Listen hard.  Practice wellness.

 Play  with abandon.  Laugh.  Choose with no regret.  Continue to learn.

Appreciate your friends.  Do what you love.  Live as if this is all there is. - Mary Anne Roadacher-Hershey

"Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them."

Orison Swett Marden, 1850-1924, Founder of Success Magazine

"Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant. -Charles A. Cerami,Author

-Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.- Les Brown, Author and Speaker

Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites.

Moderation is for monks. -Robert Heinlein, 1907-1988, American Science Fiction Writer

And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -Grandma Moses, 1860-1961, American Artist

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

-Sidonie Gabrielle Colette 1873-1954, French Author

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can. -Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American Football Coach

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -T.S. Elliot, Poet

Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground. - Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919,  Twenty-sixth President of the USA

You are not here merely to make a living.  You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.  You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. - Woodrow T. Wilson, 1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA

Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination.

-Unknown

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared. -Whitney Young, Jr., 1922-1971, American Social Reformer

He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure. James Allen from “As a Man Thinketh”

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. -- St. Francis of Assisi

Four little words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more. - A. Lou Vickery, Author

Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.  –Goethe, 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

Don't be afraid to GO FOR IT--you'll always miss 100% of the shots you DON'T take!-Jason Hun

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. -Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

The secret of happiness is not doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do. -Sir James M. Barrie, 1860-1937, British Playwright

Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. - Gil Bailie

Victory belongs to the most persevering. – Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821, French General, Emperor

You must be the change you want to see in the world. -Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and discoverers. - Jean Piaget, 1896-1980, Swiss Experimenters and Theorists

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: "You haven't!"

-Thomas Edison, 1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE

Thomas Merton The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

-Thomas Merton, 1915-1968, American Religious Writer, Poet

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. 

- Thomas Dewar

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. - B. C. Forbes, 1880-1954, American Publisher

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. – Babe Ruth, 1895-1948, American Baseball Player

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. - Dale Turner, Author

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

-Christopher Reeve, 1952-, American Actor, Director

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become." Harold Taylor

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. --- Liane Cordes, Author

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.- Indira Gandhi, 1917-1984, Indian Prime Minster

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. -William Feather, 1888-18, American Writer, Businessman

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.- Bruce Barton, 1886-1967, American Author, Advertising Executive

A little boy was overheard praying: "Lord, if you can't make me a better boy, don't worry about it. I'm having a real good time like I am."

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. --Charles F. Kettering, 1876-1958, American Engineer, Inventor

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore. -Anonymous

Success seems to be connected with action.  Successful people keep moving.

They make mistakes, but they don't quit. - Conrad Hilton, 1887-1979, American Hotelier, Businessman, Founder, Hilton Hotels

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. -Moliere, 1622-1673, French Playwright

From what we get, we can make a living: what we give, however makes a life. -Arthur Ashe 1943-1993, Tennis Player

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world. - Wayne Dyer, 1940-, American  Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer

“Life can be like standing at the base of Mount Everest.  You can face the challenge and choose to climb it, or you can walk around it.  Those who climb it see sights that few others ever see, and earn an achievement that few ever know.”

- Charles Garcia, Author, A Message From Garcia

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.- John Heywood (c.1497-1580)

British Dramatist

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, 1856-1950, Irish-born British

Dramatist

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the

dark with a mosquito.- Betty Reese

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.   --Corrie Ten Boom

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. -Washington Irving,
1783-1859, American Author

Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking
more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical,
and expecting more than others think possible. "  ~ Anonymous

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
- Albert Schweitzer, 1875-1965, German Born Medical Missionary, Theologian, Musician, and Philosopher

- The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of
comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and
controversy.
-Martin Luther King,1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner,
1964

-Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

-Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in
harmony. - Mahatma Gandhi. 1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader

Well done is better than well said. - Ben Franklin, 1706-1790, American
Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them
to become what they are capable of becoming. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe,
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

Always do right; this will gratify some and astonish the rest. -Mark
Twain, 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you
are doing the impossible. -- St. Francis of Assisi, 1181-1226,  Italian
Preacher, Founder of the Franciscan Orde

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy
lies in having no goal to reach.   - Benjamin Mays, President of Morehouse
College in Atlanta

To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong. - Joseph
Chilton Pearce, Author, Magical Child

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start
from now and make a brand new ending. - Carl Bard

"The way I see it, living your DASH is about two things: being and doing.
How are you going to 'be' as a human being? And, what are you going to
'do' to contribute?  - Eric J. Aronson, author of "DASH"

Destiny is not a matter of chance, It is a matter of choice. It is not
something to be waited for, But rather something to be achieved. - William
Jennings Bryan, 1860-1925, American Lawyer, Politician

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it
true. You may have to work for it, however. - Richard Bach, Illusions

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
- Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and
leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. - Unknown

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the
right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting
moment. - Dorothy Nevill

 

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. -Origin Unknown.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. -Charles Darwin

Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible."  ~ Anonymous

-In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins- not through strength but by perseverance.
-H. Jackson Brown, Author, Life's Little Instruction Book

-People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, psychiatrist Author, On Death and Dying.
 
-We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who hope that their dreams will come true.
- Woodrow Wilson, 1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA

The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in
the circumstances where others choose madness. --Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, 1940-,
American  Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer

A hammer breaks glass, but forges steel. -- old Russian proverb

All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it
is  violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
-Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German Philosopher

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to
grow sharper.  - Eden Phillpotts 1862-1960, Indian-born British Novelist

I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. -
Harry Truman, 1884-1972, Thirty-third President of the USA

Imagination is more important than knowledge. -Albert Einstein, 1879-1955,
German-born American Physicist

 

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, whole-heartedly,
one-directionally, without regret or reservation. --William H. Sheldon

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being
taught. --Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a
chasm in two small jumps. David Lloyd George, 1863-1945, British
Statesman, Prime Minister

"SEIZE THE DAY"--"CARPE DIEM!"--Robin Williams in "Dead Poet's Society",

quoting Roman poet Horace

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those

who try to do nothing and succeed.  - Lloyd Jones

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain.  It can be and is often

treasured by the recipient for life.- George D. Prentice, American Editor

"Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want

to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future." -- Deepak

Chopra, Deepak East-Indian- American M.D.,  New Age Author, Lecturer

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear

the answer. Ed Cunningham

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly

stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was

astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer,

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak East-Indian- American M.D.,  New Age Author, Lecturer

"Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's

our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit."

*Mary Lou Retton {American Olympic Gymnast}

The four cornerstones of character on which this nation was built are:

Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

Capt. Edward V. Rickenbacker, 1890-1973, American Aviator, World War I Ace

The virtue of man ought to be measured, not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his everyday conduct. Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher

The first basic ingredient of leadership is a guiding vision. The leader has

a clear idea of what he wants to do — professionally and personally — and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures. — Warren Bennis, American Psychologist, Management Educator, and Consultant

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live. -- Joan Baez, 1941-, American Singer, Songwriter

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. - Ralph Waldo Emerson , 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

While troubles will come, they are always temporary -- nothing lasts forever. Thus, there is the famous legend that King Solomon, the wisest man of all times, had a ring inscribed with the words, This too shall pass. -- Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. Voltaire, 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer,

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever. -- Henry Van Dyke, 1852--1933, American Protestant Clergyman and Writer

He who angers you conquers you. -- Kenny, Sister Elizabeth,  pioneer in the treatment of Infantile Paralysis and polio

"With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable." --Sir Thomas Foxwell Buxton, Abolitionist and Reformer

When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask,

"Compared to what?" -- Sidney Harris, American Journalist

"Look at your past. Your past has determined where you are at this moment.

What you do today will determine where you are tomorrow. Are you moving

forward or standing still?" -- Tom Hopkins, American Sales Trainer,

Speaker, Author

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. . . . If

you want to influence someone, listen to what he says. . . . When he

finishes talking, ask him about any points that you do not understand. --

Dr. Joyce Brothers, 1927-, American Psychologist, Television and Radio

Personality

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies." – William Wrigley Jr., 1861-1932, American Businessman, Founder of Wrigley & Co.

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration." - James Allen, 1864-1912, British-born American Essayist, Author of ''As a Man Thinketh''

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability." -Henry Ford, 1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company

-Thinking is easy, acting difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action, the most difficult thing in the world.-  Goethe, 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

-There is one thing stronger than all the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. - Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

-Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. – Horace, 1796-1859, American Educator

"Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change." – Robert Kennedy, 1925-1968, American Attorney General, Senator

"What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs." Babe Ruth" Hall of Fame" Baseball Player 1895-1948

"One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears — by listening to them." — Dean Rusk,  US Public Official and Educator

"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning." – Christopher Morley, 1890-1957, American Novelist, Journalist, Poet

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.” –Sophocles, BC 495-406, Greek Tragic Poet

Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results." – Mark Victor Hansen, American Motivational Speaker, Author

"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success." — Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

"Don't just do something, sit there!  Sit there long enough each morning to

decide what is really important during the day ahead." -- Richard Eyre, Director

"Don't concentrate on making a lot of money, but rather on becoming the type of person people want to do business with." -- Patricia Fripp, British-Born American Author, Speaker

The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be. -Robert Fulgham, American Writer, Minister, Working Cowboy

Indecision is often worse than wrong action. -Gerald Ford, 1913-, Thirty-eighth President of the USA

The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be. -Og Mandino, 1923-1996, American Motivational Author,  Speaker

Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you. -Tom Hopkins, American Sales Trainer, Speaker, Author

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. -Carl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. Muhammad Ali, 1942-, American Boxer

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy. -Robert Half, American Businessman, Founder of Robert Half & Associates.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. - Chinese Proverb    

Steven Covey says, “Seek first to understand, then, to be understood”™.

Be soft on people and hard on issues. Roger Fisher and William Ury

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. --Helen Keller, 1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, Amorist

Opportunities multiply as they are seized. --John Wicker

The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.  --Napoleon Hill, 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''

-Treat everyone you meet as though they're the most important person you'll meet that day." -- Roger Dawson

-I want to seize fate by the throat. — Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827, German Composer

-Most men die at age 25, but aren't buried until age 65. -Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

Choose a job you love, and you will never work a day in your life. – Confucius, BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

You cannot take the mild approach to the weeds in your mental garden. You have got to hate weeds enough to kill them.  Weeds are not something you handle; weeds are something you devastate.- Jim Rohn, American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher

Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse.  -Og Mandino, 1923-1996, American Motivational Author,  Speaker

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, "I am with you kid. Let's go." -- Maya Angelou, 1928-, American poet, Writer, Performer

FORTES FORTUNA ADIUVAT. (Fortune favors the bold.) -- Terence (2cd century Roman playwright), BC 185-18159, Roman Writer of Comedies

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig. -- Folk saying

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination." Tommy Lasorda "Hall of Fame" American Baseball Manager

"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes." Hugh Downs Veteran Journalist, Television Host

"The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them."- Robert Frost, 1875-1963, American Poet

-Treat others as ends, never as means. - Dag Hammarskjold, 1905-1961, Swedish Statesman, Secretary-general of U.N.

-The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - they are the pillars of society. -Henrik Ibsen, 1828-1906, Norwegian Dramatist

-Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. --Josh Billings, 1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. -- Chinese proverb

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. . . . As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others. -- Audrey Hepburn, American Actress, Writer

Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.-- William Durant, founder of General Motors

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

- Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826, Third President of the USA

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. -- Elizabeth Hardwick, American Novelist

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. -- Louise Hay, You Can Heal Your Life, American Metaphysical Teacher, Lecturer, Author

8 Questions To Find Out Where Your Heart Lies:

1) What are you intuitively attracted to?

2) What makes time fly for you?

3) What things do you accomplish easily, seemingly without effort?

4) What do you catch yourself thinking about in unguarded moments?

5) What do you easily become immersed in, what absorbs your attention

totally?

6) Where do your day dreams take you?

7) What is the one thing that more than anything else you keep coming

back to?

8) If money was no object what would you do with your time?

Teamwork

You cannot succeed by yourself.  It's hard to find a rich hermit. -Jim Rohn, American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher

Writing

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.--Ernest Hemingway

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"In the midst of winter, I finally realized that deep within me there lay an invincible summer."--Albert Camus

David McCullough quoted in Writer’s Handbook 2003 p223

“Writing forces you to think, to bear down on the subject, makes you think as nothing else does. It’s why writing ought to be stressed far more in schools. It’s a way of working out problems, working out your thoughts, insights, conclusions, revelations, that you never could have obtained otherwise.”

Alexander Woollcott:
"The scenery was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it."

George S. Kaufman on a would-be comedy:
"There was laughter in the back of the theater, leading to the belief that someone was telling jokes back there."

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Sent by Marc Flanagan

Screenwriter George Axelrod on a newly released film:
"It wasn't released. It escaped."

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Sent by Ken Nelson

Dorothy Parker on Katherine Hepburn's performance
in the 1933 play The Lake:
"Miss Hepburn ran the gamut of emotions from A to B."

Tallulah Bankhead:
"There's less here than meets the eye."

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Sent by Anonymous But, We Assume, Real People

Groucho Marx:
"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it
down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it."

Antoine de Rivarol on a two-line poem:
"Very nice, though there are dull stretches."

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Finally, a letter came to Hugh from "Dean," pointing to all the rejection notices poor Snoopy used to get in Peanuts:

Dear Hugh,

I remember the rejection letters Snoopy of Peanuts fame got for his writing, such as (at least close to):

Thank you for your submission. It does not suit our present needs. By the way, we notice you sent it via first-class mail. Junk mail may be sent third-class.

or,

Thank you for your submission. It does not suit our present needs. You will notice we are sending you two rejection notices--one for this piece, and one in case you ever decide to send us something else.

A search on <"rejection letters"> or <"rejection letters" snoopy peanuts> reveals lots. But my favorite is always the one from Samuel Johnson:

Your manuscript is both good and original. But the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

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Here's our favorite Snoopy rejection letter:

...back in 1855, the first edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass was published. The first edition of Whitman's classic was self-published and contained only a dozen poems. He revised the book many times, constantly adding and rewriting poems for various editions until shortly before his death in 1892.

Whitman was a prime example of the old adage that a work of literature is never finished, only abandoned.

Jerry Jackson Jr., Newsletter Editor of Writer’s Digest

"Always grab the reader by the throat in the first paragraph, sink

your thumbs into his windpipe in the second, and hold him against the wall until the tag line."

                        - Paul O'Neil

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People who use three exclamation points are a danger to society.

Someone will like [your manuscript]. It's the "everybody" we worry about.

JaneYolen WRt4KDZ Thu 01/06/00 5:17 AM

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   Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 10:07:37 +0100

   From: "Kristin Nitz" <kwnitz@dnet.it>

That which does not kill us gives us something to write about. 

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TWELVE TIPS FOR PRIMING YOUR CREATIVITY

"Writer's Digest Guide to Creativity," 1-800-289-0963, or via secure online ordering at http://www.writersdigest.com

Here are several ways to fuel creative infernos:

--"Get five rejections in a day. This is an output goal. I hope to have enough manuscripts out that I hear from five publishers in one day.

  Making rejection a goal also takes some of the sting out of it."

            --Carolyn Cutler.

--"I work crossword puzzles to get the brain revved up."

           --Larry L. King

--"To keep writing talents strong and sharp, nourish the space where they came from. . . . See fine art, hear soothing music, taste wonderful foods, touch fantastic texture or smell exotic aromas."

          --Joyce Locking

--"Writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. . . . You don't have to worry about learning things. The fire of one's art burns all the impurities from the vessel that contains it."

          --James Lee Burke

--"Write a poem a month. This is an output goal that will result in a large project ultimately."

          --Carolyn Cutler

--"Imagine you are a tourist in your own life this week."

          --Sheila Bender

--"I love to go hiking in the mountains or the desert--and I dictate while I walk. I find the scenic grandeur very inspiring."

          --Kevin J. Anderson.

--"Give yourself artificial deadlines. Tell yourself, 'I will mail this story by April 3' (or May 14, or Aug. 8). Tell everyone else, too: fellow workshop participants, your spouse, your mother, your kids. Ask them to ask you whether the story's gone out. Make it such a big deal that you

must finish polishing or you'll feel like the biggest fool in the world."

            --Nancy Kress

--"In the last moment before waking, in that fuzzy limbo between conscious and subconscious dreaming, I fix on the day's work ahead-- a line, a scene, a chapter. I let it play in my mind, see where it goes, what it shows me. Then I go straight to my desk and start writing."

          --John Morgan Wilson

--"I never finish work for the day. I stop working in mid paragraph or mid sentence, so that I don't have to face a black screen in the morning."

           --Malcolm McConnell

--"Don't wait."

          --Daniel Quinn

HONORARY SUBSCRIBER

Today's Honorary Subscriber is the English author George Orwell (1903-1950),In his famous essay, "Politics And The English Language," Orwell offers the

following guidelines for writing good prose in English: 

1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. 

2. Never use a long word where a short one will do. 

3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. 

4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.

5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you

can think of an everyday English equivalent. 

6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

"When I am at peace with myself, and in good spirits -- for instance, on a journey, in a carriage, or after a good meal, or while taking a walk, or at night when I can't sleep -- then thoughts flow into me most easily and at their best.  Where they come from and how -- that I cannot say; nor can I do anything about it."

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

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     "If one has talent it pushes for utterance and torments one; it will out.  And then one is out without questioning.  And, look you, there is nothing in this thing of learning out of books.  Here, here and here [the ear, the head, the heart] is your school.  If everything is right there, then take your pen and down with it; afterwards ask the opinion of a man who knows his business."

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

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"Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure."

"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."

                             -- Douglas Adams

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"I love revisions.  Where else in life can spilled milk be transformed into

ice cream?"  Katherine Paterson

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"Writing is nothing more than a guided dream."

THE PRAGMATIC: "Work to improve your writing. Daily regurgitation on paper may be therapeutic, but it won't advance your career."

Finishing a project begins with THE END.

Jane Yolen Wrt4kdz 12/20/99

Meetings and Organization

"When you are hip deep in alligators, it is hard to remember your initial objective was to drain the swamp."  Bob Rohe

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"Remember the n rule of conversations:  If there are n people in a conversation, each person should talk 1/n th of the time."

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"A goal without a plan is only a dream." -- ??? Me???

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* "Success means to advance confidently in the direction of our dreams."   Thoreau

Education

"I've been a student for almost 13 years, and never did anyone ask me how I wanted a school to be." -- Chiquita Hall, ISTE Student Technology Leadership Symposium member (http://www.edutopia.org/941)

 “Every parent deserves to know that their student has a strong foundation of skills before they are handed a diploma.”

-        Verna Griffin, Parent, Tukwila School District (http://www.partnership4learning.org/eBriefing/May06/)

“High school classes need to be rigorous and challenging. Anything less short-changes a students chance for success.”

Dr. Mike Riley, Superintendent, Bellevue

“We now have a school system that is consistent, coherent and challenging.” -- Rolland Johnson, Principal, R.A. Long High School, Longview

“Kids need to know that what we expect is important AND achievable, and that we’ll help them every step of the way.” – Betsy Cornell, Teacher, Chief Moses Middle School, Moses Lake

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"Education is the key civil rights and economic issue of our time. There is nothing more important to the long-term growth of our economy and to the success of our democracy and society than making sure that the United States has a highly skilled, well-educated workforce."

-Eli Broad (founder), The Broad Foundation http://www.broadfoundation.org/

 "We must be exceedingly careful to make sure we measure what counts. We cannot expect major improvements in education without major changes in our assessments." --Dr. Bruce Alberts, President, National Academy of Sciences

"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn." - John Cotton Dana

"When you think about the broader definition of the word ‘scholarship’ -- beyond the financial award -- it’s about the methods and discipline of a scholar, and studying not just to make good grades but to gain knowledge, knowledge that betters the individual who can then better the world.

Having scholarship just for technical knowledge or mere mastery of a subject -- without integrity, without honor -- means nothing. Scholarship must also be about character. Scholarship is a powerful word; it’s time we relearn it and see it with new eyes."

-Cliff Stanley, newly appointed president of Scholarship America http://www.scholarshipamerica.org/home/news_item.php?newsid=396&cur=0

Education Is the Journey, Not the Destination

· It Is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. Ursula K. Le Guin, Source: Little Zen Companion, Schiller.

· In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message...the drawing out, not the pumping in. Ashley Montagu

· Success is a journey, not a destination. Ben Sweetland

· What gives value to travel is fear. It is the fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country...we are seized by a vague fear, and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. This is the most obvious benefit of travel. At that moment we are feverish but also porous, so that the slightest touch makes us quiver to the depths of our being. We come across a cascade of light, and there is eternity. This is why we should not say that we travel for pleasure. There is no pleasure in traveling, and I look upon it more as an occasion for spiritual testing. If we understand by culture the exercise of our most intimate sense -- that of eternity --then we travel for culture. Pleasure takes us away from ourselves in the same was as distraction, in Pascal's use of the word, takes us away from God. Travel, which is like a greater and graver science, brings us back to ourselves. - Alber Camus. Notebooks 1935-1942.

· So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century. Alfred North Whitehead, The Aims of Education.

· To state a theorem and then to show examples of it is literally to teach backwards. E. Kim Nebeuts, In H. Eves Return to Mathematical Circles, Boston: Prindle, Weber and Schmidt, 1988.

· Reinventing the wheel is a process. Rashid Elisha

· Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination. Roy Goodman

· Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. Margaret Lee Runbeck

· Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I do not understand the process of digestion? Oliver Heaviside, (1850-1925) [Criticized for using formal mathematical manipulations, without understanding how they worked:]

· Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. Alexander Pope

Education Is a Lifelong Journey

· It is time that we had uncommon schools, that we did not leave off our education when we begin to be men and women. It is time that villages were universities, and their elder inhabitants the fellows of /universities, with leisure-if they are indeed, so well off - to pursue liberal studies the rest of their lives. Henry David Thoreau

· Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. Sir William Haley

· The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. Robert Maynard Hutchins

· The man who has ceased to learn ought not to be allowed to wander around loose in these dangerous days. M. M. Coady

· Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

· Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. Bob Perelman

· Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. Henry Ford

· The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. Henry Ford

· Education is the best viaticum of old age. Aristotle

· Four years was enough of Harvard...I still had a lot to learn, but I had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself. John Updike

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Education: Process or Content or On Producing Learning Rather than Learned People

· The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; It should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together. In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. Eric Hoffer

· The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men. Bill Beattie

· In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Network, speaking speaking at CUE

· The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. Alvin Toffler

· Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide. Buddha

· They know enough who know how to learn. Henry Adams

· It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again; the never-satisfied man is so strange if he has completed a structure, then it is not in order to dwell in it peacefully, but in order to begin another. I imagine the world conqueror must feel thus, who, after one kingdom is scarcely conquered, stretches out his arms for others. Karl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) Letter to Bolyai, 1808.

· An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it. William Feather

· A mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimension. Oliver Wendell Holmes

· To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it. Aristotle, Mathematical Intelligencer v. 6, no. 3, 1984.

8/22/06  He is educated who knows where to find out what he doesn't know. Georg Simmel

· Education is not learning; it is the exercise and development of the powers of the mind; and the two great methods by which this end may be accomplished are the halls of learning, or in the conflicts of life. Princeton Review

· What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being
pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered
to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what
you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful
human beings.
-Ann Landers, 1918-2002, American Advice Columnist

Science

NO KIDDING

Galileo was a very busy man:

·        Invented forerunner of thermometer (age 28)

·        Invented device similar to compass (age 33)

·        Published theory on earth and sun rotation (age 26)

·        Did experiments that led to the barometer (age 28)

·        Used microscope to study insect anatomy (age 46)

·        Published description of the moon (age 46)

·        Designed the telescope (age 45)

Source: The Italian 100 by Stephen Spignesi, Carol Pub. Group, 1998

We believe that students learn science best by doing it, not by reading about it. Thus we have developed a program which is heavily laboratory/ research oriented. We believe that the spirit of science is achieved when the student discovers principles from experiments rather than learns the principles first and does experiments later to illustrate them. We believe that science without discovery does not fairly represent the subject to students. Science, as discovery, is harder to do; it is riskier, yet we believe it is the only way.

Fundamental questions are

·         "Can one teach science to teenagers by teaching them to respect authority and to believe what they are told?"

·         "Can one teach science to teenagers by teaching them answers before they have yet to think of the questions?"

Clearly we believe the answers to these questions are both "no." Of course one can teach children to respect authority, to believe what they are told, and to learn the answers before they have thought of the questions. These teachings are not necessarily bad and are, in some respects, actually quite useful. However, we believe that they are not science and are, in fact, anti-science. During Open House on parents night, we have, on a few occasions given a brief talk related to this subject, entitled, "Is the Spanish Civil War Art?"

We believe that chemistry is a process and a perspective; not a collection of facts and stories. Thus, we value our students developing a sense of the scientific method, an ability to analyze and a need to base opinion upon evidence. We do not value as highly your ability to memorize information. Many students in this world are taught that there is a right and a wrong, and therefore have little need to develop opinions from evidence. We believe that the ability to formulate and modify models based upon evidence is a most important goal of the school system. Since we don't know the truth, we are unable to emphasize the right answer. Instead, we evaluate how well the answers fit the evidence, and how well the analysis and presentation of evidence leads to appropriate conclusions. We realize that this reliance upon evidence makes learning more difficult, but that, in itself, may signify that it is more meaningful.

http://www.chemistrycoach.com/page3.htm#Return3 - Bob Jacobs

The nature of reality - http://www.chemistrycoach.com/nature_of_reality.htm#The%20Nature%20of%20Reality:%20Three%20Positions

Measurement - http://www.chemistrycoach.com/measurem.htm#Measure

Mathematics - http://www.chemistrycoach.com/language.htm#Language

There are enough resources on earth for everybody's need, but not

enough for their greed. -- Gandhi

History

Thomas Paine wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls," and worried that "the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country."

Miscellaneous

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. – Abigail Adams, 1744-1818, Wïfe of United States President John Adams

The family is the cornerstone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community itself is crippled. So, unless we work to strengthen the family, to create conditions under which most parents will stay together, all the rest -- schools, playgrounds, and public assistance, and private concern – will never be enough." - Lyndon Baines Johnson (U.S. president)

"The teacher, if indeed wise, does not bid you to enter the house of their wisdom, but leads you to the threshold of your own mind." -- Kahil Gibran, 1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." --William Faulkner, 1897-1962, American Novelist

Always be eager to learn, no matter how successful you might already be.  In the Millionaires' Club, we sometimes invite a billionaire to come talk to us. He says, 'You're doing okay, but come on. How about if you really poured it on!'  -- Jim Rohn, American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher

“The Greatest obstacle to learning is not ignorance—it is the illusion of knowledge.”

Tell me I'll forget, show me , I may remember, but involve me and I'll
understand. - Chinese Proverb.

"If you tell me, I will listen.

If you show me, I will see.

If you let me experience, I will learn!"

"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up."

      - - Oliver Wendell Holmes

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure."
-Emma Goldman

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."
-B. F. Skinner

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't."
-Anatole France

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre."
-Gail Godwin

"The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving."
-Russell Green

"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."
-Thomas Carlyle

"There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics."
-Richard Livingstone, On Education

"I never let schooling interfere with my education."
-Mark Twain

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
-Mark Twain

"I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves."
-E. M. Forster

"Wear the old coat and buy the new book."
-Austin Phelps

"Play is our brain's favorite way of learning."

            Diane Ackerman

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Right in the beginning I say in desperation "How about a short, silent

prayer?" and the other teacher answers, "As long as the word prayer isn't used."

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"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."

 -  W. Edwards Deming

"Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men -- the balance-wheel of the social machinery. "

  -  Horace Mann, considered to one of the "fathers" of American Public

Education

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A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

- Father James Keller (1900-1977), founder, The Christophers

"Learning is discovering that something is possible!"

----- Fritz Perls

"In the end we can never be given knowledge by others; we can only be stimulated. We must develop our own knowledge."

  - Charles T. Tart

“In times of change the learners will inherit the earth while the knowers will find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."

I believe the words of Eric Hoffer, an American Social Philosopher (1902 - 1983), reflect our own beliefs:

"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands." -- Anne Frank

"Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I don't always like being taught." - Winston Churchill

"The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr."  --Muhammad

The great end of learning is not knowledge but action. -- Peter Horney

Prayer from Marianne Williamson used by Nelson Mandela in his 1994 Inaugural Speech:

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same as we are liberated from our own fear; our presence automatically liberates others."

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Richard Todd "Worth Magazine" - We now have more shopping malls than high schools in the United States

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S.R.Ranganathan (1892-1972), "Five Laws of Library Science" (1931), which are: 

Books are for use.

Every reader his book.

Every book its reader.

Save the time of the reader.

A library is a growing organism."

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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.  For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

My friend likes to read his two young sons fairy tales at night. Having a deep-rooted sense of humor, he often ad-libs parts of the stories for fun.

One day his youngest son was sitting in his first grade class as the teacher was reading the story of the Three Little Pigs.

She came to the part of the story where the first pig was trying to acquire building materials for his home. She said "...And so the pig went up to the man with a wheelbarrow full of straw and said "Pardon me sir, but might I have some of that straw to build my house with?"

Then the teacher asked the class "And what do you think that man said?" and my friend's son raised his hand and said, "I know! I know! He said 'Holy Shit!! A talking pig!'"

The teacher was unable to teach for the next 10 minutes

From Mom via the Internet 6/3/99

"Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use". -- Thomas J. Watson.

"I would rather train someone and lose them, then not train them and keep them".  Zig Ziglar

Politics

"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."

Lyndon Baines Johnson

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"Democracy means government by discussion but it is only effective if you can stop people talking."

Clement Attlee

old Irish saying: "If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people he gives it to."

"...The greatest antidote to worry, whether you're getting ready for spaceflight or facing a problem of daily life, is preparation
...the more you try to envision what might happen and what your best response and options are, the more you are able to allay your fears about the future."

John Glenn

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What is the difference between Heaven and Hell

  Heaven is British cops

  French chefs

  German mechanics

  Swiss organizers

  Italian lovers

Nice, eh?  But Hell?

   German cops

   British chefs

   French mechanics

   Italian organizers

   Swiss lovers

We all get trapped by our perceptions, generalizations and stereotypes and, like William Weech said, we all have a natural human tendency to categorize.

It is simply how the brain works to handle information efficiently.  The

brain puts things into order so that it can sort and retrieve.  Most people

have similar brain strategies but each of us is also unique in how we do

things.

Jim Brennan [jimboma1@MAIL.MAP.COM]

Religion

In every relationship, there is the possibility for passionate holiness or consuming lust. The fire is always there ... but without "God" (that is, without caring, consideration, honor and love), sex is often reduced to something that is consuming, empty, and hurtful. But with these appropriately added ingredients (patience, tenderness, respect, etc.), sexuality becomes an act of kedushah, of holiness.

Rabbi Billy Dreskin is the rabbi of Woodlands Community Temple, in White Plains, New York.

There is only one way to get through life on this terrestrial ball.  And that is to have a clear conscience, or none at all.                                                
Ogden Nash

Relationships

2.    Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. -Mark Twain

3.    If you judge people, you have no time to love them. -Mother Teresa

4.    I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am

with you. - Roy Croft

5.    Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. -Aristotle

6.    Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. -St. Augustine

7.    Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. -Alexander Smith

8.    There is no remedy for love but to love more. -Thoreau

9.    Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other. -Leo F. Buscaglia

10.   Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds. –William

Shakespeare

I've always liked the old saying "Everybody has it in his power to bring happiness. Some can do it by coming into a room. Some can do it by leaving." Another old saying: "Happiness is like jam. You can't spread any without getting a little on you."

We know very well that errors are better recognized in the works of others than in our own; and that often, while reporting little faults in others, you may ignore great ones in yourself.

Leonardo da Vinci

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"If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam."
— Johnny Carson

"I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry." — Rita Rudner

> >> >Real Mothers. . . .

>>  >>

>>  >> >Real Mothers don't eat quiche; they don't have

>>  >> >time to make it.

>>  >> >Real Mothers know that their kitchen utensils are

>>  >> >probably in the sandbox.

>>  >> >Real Mothers often have sticky floors, filthy

>>  >> >ovens and happy kids.

>>  >> >Real Mothers know that dried playdough doesn't

>>  >> >come out of shag carpets.

>>  >> >Real Mothers don't want to know what the vacuum

>>  >> >just sucked up.

>>  >> >Real Mothers sometimes ask "why me?" and get their

>>  >> >answer when a little voice says, "because I love you best."

>>  >> >Real Mothers know that a child's growth is not

>>  >> >measured by height or years or grade...It is marked by the

>>  >> >progression of Mama to Mommy to Mom...

>>  >> >

>>  >>

>>  >> >The Images of Mother

>>  >> >4 YEARS OF AGE  ~  My Mommy can do anything!

>>  >> >8 YEARS OF AGE  ~  My Mom knows a lot!  A whole lot!

>>  >> >12 YEARS OF AGE  ~ My Mother doesn't really know quite everything.

>>  >> >14 YEARS OF AGE ~ Naturally, Mother doesn't know that, either.

>>  >> >16 YEARS OF AGE ~ Mother? She's hopelessly old-fashioned.

>>  >> >18 YEARS OF AGE  ~ That old woman? She's way out of date!

>>  >> >25 YEARS OF AGE  ~  Well, she might know a little bit about it.

>>  >> >35 YEARS OF AGE  ~  Before we decide, let's get Mom's opinion.

>>  >> >45 YEARS OF AGE  ~  Wonder what Mom would have thought about it?

>>  >> >65 YEARS OF AGE  ~  Wish I could talk it over with Mom

>>  >> >

>>  >>

>>  >>The beauty of a woman

>>  >> >Is not in the clothes she wears,

>>  >> >The figure that she carries,

>>  >> >Or the way she combs her hair.

>>  >> >The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes,

>>  >> >Because that is the doorway to her heart, the

>>  >> >place where love  resides.

>>  >> >The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole,

>>  >> >But true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.

>>  >> >It is the caring that she lovingly gives,

>>  >> >The passion that she shows,

>>  >> >And the beauty of a woman

>>  >> >With passing years-only grows!

>>  >> >

>>  >>

>>  >> >Please send this to five phenomenal women today in celebration of

JaneB asked if anyone knows anything about news butchers?  Do you mean the

young boys they called "the butch" for short?  They used to sell newspapers &

lots of other things to the railroad travelers in the 1890s.  They'd go up

and down the aisles peddling peanuts from a basket.  Then when the patrons

were really maxed out with thirst, he'd show up with soft drinks, usually

that he made himself from a package & poured into the bottles he kept from

one trip to the next.

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"Peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble,

or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and

still be calm in your heart. That is the real meaning of peace."

   --from the book "A WARDROBE FROM THE KING," by Berit Kjos.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to take the one I've never tried before.

Base 8 is just like base 10, if you are missing two fingers.

"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it."

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"If we stand tall it is because we stand on the shoulders of many ancestors."

Yoruba Proverb

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What others think of me is none of my business.

        There are no mistakes in jazz, only opportunities.

        If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothin'. -Billie Holiday

        Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never

        begin. -Grace Hanson

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"Education is what you have left over after you have forgotten everything you have learned." -- Anonymous

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"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. "

Voltaire

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"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. "

Confucius

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"When Sandy Koufax was asked today about his budding relationship with the Mets' left-hander Al Leiter, the Hall of Fame pitcher replied: 'There's an old saying in teaching: when the pupil is ready, the teacher will show up."

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You just have to groan - >In the wake of the Exxon/Mobil deal and the AOL/Netscape deal, here are the latest mergers we can expect to see: >> >>Hale Business Systems, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Fuller Brush, and W.R. Grace Company merge to become Hale Mary Fuller Grace. >> >>Polygram Records, Warner Brothers, and Keebler Crackers merge to become Polly-Warner-Cracker. >> >>3M and Goodyear merge to become MMMGood. >> >>John Deere and Abitibi-Price merge to become Deere Abi. >> >>Zippo Manufacturing, Audi Motors, Dofasco, and Dakota Mining merge to become Zip Audi Do Da. >> >>Honeywell, Imasco, and Home Oil merge to become Honey I'm Home. >> >>Denison Mines, and Alliance and Metal Mining merge to become Mine, All Mine.

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john morreall: Humor is very useful in handling conflict. In the late 1850s, Abraham Lincoln was challenged to a duel. He said "I accept if I can specify the weapons and the distance at which we stand." The other man agreed. Lincoln said, "Cow shit at five paces." End of fight.

Humor's also good for announcing bad news. When Churchill had to go on the radio to announce that Italy had come into the war on the side of the Nazis, he said, "Today I must announce that the Italians have entered the war on the side of Germany. I think that's only fair. We had to take them last time."

http://www.thriveonline.com/health/humor/jmorrchat.html

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Live as if you were to die tomorrow.

Learn as if you were to live forever.

            - Ghandi

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"The virtue of a computer in the classroom is that it requires a user, not a watcher."

        - Diane Ravitch

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"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away."

- Henry David Thoreau

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

-         Martin Luther King, Jr

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

-William Jennings Bryan

>Patrick wrote: I stuck my neck out. "Really?" I asked. "Did you really

>mean to reject this?"

> 

Patrick, a perfectly reasonable question under the circumstances. Aren't you glad you asked?! And what are necks for, if we don't stick them out once in a while?

Linda Moore Durston

"Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. "

Charlie Parker

(His computer is up...no, wait, its down! down! No,no, its up. Its up again.

No, down...down...)

- Nick Cook-

I think somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that

decision.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

 

* People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one --- Leo J.

Burke<<

* We are only moments away from our next nerdly act.

* Everyone has had an idea that could change the world. Einstein

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

- - - Woodrow Wilson

"At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement. "

Benjamin Franklin

MARK TWAIN: Start

Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.

- Notebook, 1903; Mark Twain, a Biography

I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.

- Letter to Fred J. Hall, 8/10/1892

We write frankly and fearlessly but then we "modify" before we print.

- Life on the Mississippi

It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.

- An Author's Soldiering, 1887

Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.

- letter to Bruce Weston Munro, 10/21/1881 (Karanovich collection)

Well, my book is written- let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out. They burn in me; and they keep multiplying; but now they can't ever be said. And besides, they would require a library- and a pen warmed up in hell.

- Letter to W. D. Howells, 9/22/1889 (referring to Connecticut Yankee)

You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

- Letter to Orion Clemens, 3/23/1878

The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is that you really want to say.

- Mark Twain's Notebook, 1902-1903

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas - the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

- Letter to Emeline Beach, 2/10/1868

Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style.

- Letter to George Bainton, 10/15/1888; (first printed in The Art of Authorship: Literary Reminiscences, Methods of Work, and Advice to Young Beginners, Personally Contributed by Leading Authors of the Day. Compiled and Edited by George Bainton. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1890, pp. 85-88.)

I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them - then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.

- Letter to D. W. Bowser, 3/20/1880

I think I can say, and say with pride that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.

- Speech 7/4/1873

...it's so hard to find men of a so high type of morals that they'll stay bought.

- Notebook for Aug. 1890-June 1891

End Mark Twain

Today's Honorary Subscriber is Anonymous, the author of the following words

that were found in Old St. Paul's Church, Baltimore, Maryland (dated 1692):

      Go placidly among the noise & haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.  As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.  Speak your truth quietly & clearly, and listen to others, even the dull & ignorant; they too have their story.  Avoid loud & aggressive

persons, they are vexatious to the spirit.  If you compare yourself with

others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater &

lesser persons than yourself.  Enjoy your achievements as well as your

plans.  Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real

possession in the changing fortunes of time.  Exercise caution in your

business affairs; for the world is full of trickery.  But let this not blind

you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and

everywhere life is full of heroism.  Especially, do not feign affection.

Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.  Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.  Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.  But do not distress yourself with imaginings.  Many fears are born of fatigue & loneliness.  Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.  You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees & the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.  Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors & aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.  With all its sham, drudgery & broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.  Be careful.  Strive to be happy. 

Max Ehrmann (1872-1945) ?

*Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what

makes it permanent. -Marilyn vos Savant

*Give me ambiguity or give me something else.

One fifth of the people are against everything all the time," wrote Robert F. Kennedy.

"Surely such a great mystery is not reached by one way alone." -- Symmachus

Prominent Orthodox Jew - introducing speaker on subject of Jewish mysticism: "It's nonsense - but it's Jewish nonsense, and the study of anything Jewish, even nonsense is worthwhile."

"A new idea does not succeed by convincing the world of its brilliance.  A

new idea succeeds by having those who do not believe it dying off and being

replaced by a new group who take it for granted." ??Linus Pauling

"I can complain because rosebushes have thorns or rejoice because

Remember: Laughter is an important reminder that you are alive!

"Think of the poorest person you have ever seen and ask if your next act will be of any use to him."

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

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Julianne - My grandfather's favourite expression when he was truly angered was "SUGAR the cat!"

Then I went to "rats," which I think came from the Peanuts comic strip.

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And I realized if I threw in the towel, it would just be that much more laundry I'd have to do.

Kay Pluta: WRT4KDZ

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"Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent."

"If everything is under control, you are going too slow."

If you’re a vegetarian, does that mean you don’t eat anything that has a head?

Age