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Sunday, July 27, 2003

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple. ~ Amos Bronson Alcott ~


You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill. ~ Hari Dass Baba ~


A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. ~ Walter Bagehot ~


The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array. ~ Jeremy Bentham ~



There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech. ~ Allan Bloom ~


Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain. ~ Fawn M. Brodie ~


Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young. ~ Henry S. Canby ~


A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. ~ Thomas Carruthers ~


First he wrought, and afterward he taught. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer ~


A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation. ~ Howard Crosby ~


In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher. ~ Dalai Lama ~


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


Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn. ~ William J. Durant ~


The man who can make hard things easy is the educator. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~


Those who know how to think need no teachers. ~ Mahatma Gandhi ~


The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before. ~ Elbert Hubbard ~


To teach is to learn twice. ~ Joseph Joubert ~



No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern. ~ Plato ~


In teaching others we teach ourselves. ~ Proverb ~


We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit. ~ Robert H. Shaffer ~


What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. ~ George Bernard Shaw ~


When teaching, light a fire, don't fill a bucket. ~ Dan Snow ~


The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning. ~ Source Unknown ~


The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ~ William A. Ward ~


Teaching is the greatest act of optimism. ~ Colleen Wilcox ~
Children Learn What They Live
If children live with criticism,
they learn to condemn.
If children live with hostility,
they learn to fight.
If children live with ridicule,
they learn to be shy.
If children live with tolerance,
they learn to be patient.
If children live with encouragement,
they learn confidence.
If children live with praise,
they learn to appreciate.
If children live with fairness,
they learn justice.
If children live with security,
they learn faith.
If children live with approval,
they learn to like themselves.
If children live with acceptance, and friendship,
they learn to find love in the world.

Author Unknown
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Education is understanding relationships.   George Washington Carver

The important thing is not to stop questioning.  Albert Einstein

To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold,
herein lies the first task of the teacher.  Maria Montessori

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

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most
are the things you will do best. Marva Collins

Being able to help someone learn something is a talent.  Margaret Riel

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies,
can continue growing as we continue to live.  Mortimer Adler

Education's responsibility is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Malcolm Forbes

Teaching, is not just a job. It is a human service, and it must be thought of as a mission.
Dr. Ralph Tyler

People seldom see the halting and painful steps at which the most insignificant success
is achieved.  Anne Sullivan

Knowing it and applying it are two different things.

Ignorance doesn't kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot.  Haitian proverb

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.  Mary McLeod Bethune

I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.
George Washington Carver

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. Derek Bok, President, Harvard University

I touch the future. I teach.  Christa McAuliffe

The greatest discoveries all start with the question "WHY?"  Dr. Robert D. Ballard

I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents:
destructiveness and creativeness. Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Be very, very careful what you put into that head, because you will never,
ever get it out.  Cardinal Wolsey

Be quick to praise, slower to criticize.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.  Mark Twain

Education ... has produced a vast population able to read
but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.  G.M. Trevelyan

The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality
of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others.  Grayson Kirk

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.  Socrates

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor
and attended to with diligence. Abigail Adams 1780

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.  Arthur C. Clarke

Teachers teach someone something, in that order.  Samuel M. Natale

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.  Herbert Spencer

The best way to predict the future is to create it.  Peter F. Drucker

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

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.  Bob Talbert

It's amazing what one can accomplish when one doesn't know what one can't do.

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play.
Every individual makes a difference. Jane Goodall

A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.
Willy Wonka in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"

If you think you can do a thing, or think you can't do a thing; you're right.  Henry Ford

What is the greatest sign of success for a teacher...?  It is to be able to say "the children are now working as if I did not exist.   Maria Montessori

Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff.  Rule #2: It's all small stuff.  Dr. Michael Mantelli

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.  Eugene S. Wilson

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance,
or a stranger.  Franklin P. Jones

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable
to sit still in a room.  Blaise Pascal

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Is not every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Thomas Huxley

Our children need to be treated as human beings - exquisite,
complex and elegant in their diversity.  Lloyd Dennis

Play ... is a way of learning by trial and error to cope with the actual world. Lawrence Frank

We live and we learn. But, sadly, at different rates.  Alan Magid

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.  George Santayana

A teacher has to be a prophet who can look into the future and see the world of tomorrow into which the children of today must fit.  Anonymous

Look at everything as though you have never seen it before.  Paul Valery

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.  John Keats

Education is the art of making man ethical.  George Hegel

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.  Harold S. Hulbert

Man's mind stretched by a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The greatest gift that you can give another person is your attention.

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who
prepare for it today.  Malcolm X

Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself.  Sybil Marshall

Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they're not; it helps them to keep trying.  Merry Browne

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
Vernor Sanders

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.  Winston Churchill

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
Amos Bronson Alcottl

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. Peter F. Drucker

One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.
Stephen Hawking

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant

In the end, we will conserve only that which we love, we will love only that which we understand, and we will understand only that which we are taught.
African Conservaitonist Baba Dioum

People only see what they are prepared to see.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man
who can't read them.  Mark Twain

Thinking means connecting things and stops if they cannot be connected.  G.K. Chesterton

It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.  Rene Descartes

The delights of self discovery are always available.  Gail Sheehy

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.  Plato

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn
...and change.  Carl Rogers

Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a flame.  Unknown

A Good teacher Explains ... A Superior teacher Demonstrates ... A GREAT teacher Inspires. Unknown

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Mahatma Gandhi

There are really no mistakes on life -- only lessons.  Anonymous

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.
Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants
and the ability to satisfy them. Henry Steele Commager

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands
and at whom it is aimed. Joseph Stalin

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.  Aristotle

The secret of education is respecting the pupil.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition
of continually asking questions. Bishop Mandell Creighton

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.  Robert E. Lee

The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life
in which he is placed.  Helen Keller

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. Thomas Henry Huxley

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.  Theodore Roosevelt

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.  Arthur Ashe

Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.  Sydney J. Harris

Those who can, teach. Those who can't, do something far less important. Shirley Frye

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

Through education comes understanding.  Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso

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

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 Francen

Education is not something which the teacher does ...it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.  Maria Montessori

The only way to be totally free is through education.   Jose Marti

Teachers open the door, but you enter by yourself.  Unknown

All men by nature desire to know. Aristotle

To teach is to learn twice. Joseph Joubert

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.  Julian S. Huxley

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. Kahlil Gibran

Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be
to set off that spark in one another. Kenny Ausubel

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.   Chinese Proverb

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
John Lubbock

The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say,
"The children are now working as if I did not exist."  Maria Montessori

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too,
enter the mind of the child. Anne Sullivan

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

They know enough who know how to learn.  Henry Adams

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.  Anonymous

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.  Harvey S. Firestone

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian author and Nobel Prize winner

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein

If learning is an act of exploration,
then technology equips the explorer for the journey of a lifetime ....

Ability is what you're capable of doing.  Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it.   Lou Holtz

Technology: opening minds with a new set of keys.

True teaching is one that not teaches knowledge but stimulates children to gain it.
Jill Eggleton

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
G.K. Chesterton

What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?  Cicero

Adults are obsolete children. Dr. Seuss

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 Feance

You can’t teach what you don’t understand. Susan Kovalik

Children have more need of models than of critics.  Carolyn Coats

You cannot control children by yelling any more than you can control a car with its horn.

If you’re not having fun, you’re not being the best teacher you can be.

If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.
  Ignacio Estrada

 The highest result of education is tolerance.   Helen Keller

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.  Galileo

One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it,
you have no certainty until you try.  Sophocles

They are able because they think they are able.  Vergil

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.   Mark Twain

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught,
as that every child should be given the wish to learn.   John Lubbock

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.
Robert Frost

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and
thinking what nobody has thought. Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift
and not as a hard duty.  Albert Einstein

Education is nothing more, nor less, than learning to think!   Peter Facione

 Knowledge has an important property. When you give it away, you don't lose it.

The mind is like the stomach. It's not how much you put into it,
but how much it digests. Albert Jay Nock

He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning.   Danish Proverb

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool
may ask more than the wisest man can answer.  Charles Caleb Colton

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.  T. H. Huxley

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
Norman Douglas

 Correction does much, but encouragement does more.  Goethe

A master can tell you what he expects of you.
A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.  Patricia Neal

Knowledge is of two kinds.  We know a subject ourselves,
or we know where we can find information upon it.  Sam Johnson

Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.
Japanese Proverb

Teaching is love made visible.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.  Will Durant

 In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering,
the fourth practicing, the fifth -- teaching others.  Ibn Gabirol, philosopher c.1022

 The secret of education is respecting the pupil.   Ralph Waldo Emerson

 I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions
in which they can learn.  Albert Einstein

Education is not complete unless we teach our children not only how to read
and write but the difference between right and wrong.   President Bush

Education is not a form of entertainment,
but a means of empowering people to take control of their lives.

We live at the level of our language.  Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore.

All you have to do to educate a child is leave them alone and teach them to read.
The rest is brainwashing. Ellen Gilcristre

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.   Mark VanDoren

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
 Sir Winston Churchill

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.  James Thurber

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it.  Aristotle

Perhaps the greatest joy is learning how to motivate yourself.   Floyd Maxwell

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.   T. H. Huxley

Most students treat knowledge as a liquid to be swallowed rather than as a solid
to be chewed, and then wonder why it provides so little nourishment.   Sydney Harris

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education...
The human mind is our fundamental resource.    John F. Kennedy

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
Robert Green Ingersoll

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--
the power to tell the good from  the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and
 to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.  Samuel Johnsons

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees;
if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.  Chinese proverb

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning.
The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
Eugene S. Wilson

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.  Galileo

If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school
when their parents get involved in their learning.   William J. Bennett

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.  Confucius

To get new knowledge requires new questions.  John Evanson

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn
is in great danger!  Confucius

The best teachers are those that show you where to look
but don't tell you what to see. Alexandra K. Trenfor

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond;
cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.   Mark Twain

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.   John F. Kennedy

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.



Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes,
and that times change.   Gina Shapira

No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, 
and no amount of exhortation or threats will bring it back.  John Holt

A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world,
as one which enables him to sustain a failure.   Bernard Iddings Bellk

The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do,
never does what he can do. John Stuart Mill

A teacher affects eternity; no one can tell where his influence stops.  Henry Adams

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.  Victor Hugo

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

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees;
if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.  Chinese Proverb

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is
among elementary school youngsters than among college students.  Carl Sagan

Learn concepts, not methods.  A good mind devises its own methods.

Gold has a price, but learning is priceless.  Chinese Proverb

When one teaches, two learn. Robert Half

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be,
and you help them to become what they are capable of becoming.  Goethe

One must be a student before one can be a teacher.  Chinese Proverb

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.  Frederick Douglass

Ask a question and you're a fool for three minutes;
do not ask a question and you're a fool for the rest of your  life.  Chinese Proverb

Example is not the main thing in influencing others.  It is the only thing.  Albert Schweitzer

Learning without thinking is labor lost; thinking without learning is dangerous. Chinese Proverb

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.  Jacques Barzun

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.  H.G. Wells

Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you.   Richard Bach

Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.  Chinese Proverb

You can educate a fool, but you cannot make him think.   The Talmud

I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music,
for in the patterns of music and all the arts are the keys of learning.   Plato

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.  Gail Godwin

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.  Thomas H. Huxley

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.  John Dewey

All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.  Aristotle

The work can wait while you show the child the rainbow,
but the rainbow won't wait while you do  the work.   Patricia Clafford

Mistakes are the portals of discovery. James Joyce

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
 Sir Winston Churchill

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic
than to teach and instruct our youth.   Marcus T. Cicero

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can
create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.   Warren Bennis

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells

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.  Jean Piaget

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say,
learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully.  Every word that is unnecessary
only pours over the side of a brimming mind.  Cicero

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees;
if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.   Chinese Proverb

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn
by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.
Clay P. Bedford

The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves.
Joseph Campbell

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
Charles R. Swindolls

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

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool
may ask more than the wisest man can answer.   Charles Caleb Colton

Teachers should guide without dictating, and participate without dominating.
C. B. Neblette

What you see depends on what you thought before you looked.  Eugene Taurman

Children want to learn to the degree that they are unable to distinguish learning from fun.
They  keep this attitude until we adults convince them that learning is not fun.  Glenn Doman


The invention of I.Q. has done a great disservice to creativity in education.  Joel Hildebrand


Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value to its scarcity.   Samuel  Butler

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom,
while discouragement often nips it in the bud.  Samuel  Butler

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.  William A. Ward

Education is the ability to meet life's situations.  Dr. John G. Hibben

He who laughs most, learns best.   John Cleese

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

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.   Sir Francis Bacon

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.  Edward Everett

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers,
but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.  Anthony Jay

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

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
Edith Ann [Lily Tomlin]

All things are difficult before they are easy.  Thomas Fuller

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.

A man's mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.  Stanislaw J. Lec.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. Mark Twain

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.  Socrates

It's not what is poured into a student, but what is planted.  L. Conway

The only reason I try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me
to forgive their children.   Life 3/7/65

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. Albert Einstein

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.  William Arthur Ward

The principle goal of education is to create men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.  Jean Piaget

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him
and let him know that you trust him. Booker T. Washington

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning
and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.  Leo Buscaglia

Once you get people laughing, they're listening.  Herbert Gardner

When you make the finding yourself--even if you are the last person on Earth to see the light
--you will never forget it.  Carl Sagan

There is no one way.  Tofu Roshi


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I believe a little bit of success lies in everyone! Will you be the one to deny that? Or rather be the one who chooses to be guided by it? I hope you choose as I to do the latter! -- Josh S. Hinds

"Success is the prize for those who stand true to their ideas!" -- Josh S. Hinds

"A day will never be anymore than what you make of it. Practice being a "doer"! -- Josh S. Hinds  

"You are what you think about all day long." -- Dr. Robert Schuller  

"You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people to get what they want!" -- Zig Ziglar

"Business is a game. The minute you think of it any differently it ceases to be fun and immediately begins to control your life and ultimately drives you crazy with wild obsessions & eventually ruins your family life. Keep things in perspective. First family, second friends, and third your business. Practice this and you'll be much happier for it. And your business will be much happier as well." -- Josh S. Hinds  

"Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching." -- Thomas Jefferson  

"Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy." -- Martha Washington  

"Keys to success... Research your idea, Plan for success, Expect success, & just plain do it! It amazes me how many people skip the last step! Practice being a "doer" and success will follow you every step of the way!" -- Josh S. Hinds  

"Picture in your mind a sense of personal destiny." -- Wayne Oates  

"Dare to risk public criticism." -- Mary Kay Ash  

"We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us." -- Billy Graham  

"There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist." -- Mark Twain  

"This is America . We can do anything here." -- Ted Turner

"Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half." -- Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant  

"You win some, you lose some, you wreck some." -- Dale Earnhardt

"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self- confidence is preparation." -- Arthur Ashe  

"Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself." -- Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant  

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more luck I have." -- Thomas Jefferson  

"Life's like a boom-a-rang. The more good you throw out, the more you receive in return." -- Josh S. Hinds  

"Play the smiling game in your daily life. See how many people you can get to smile back at you. Keep score and tally the results at the end of each day." -- Josh S. Hinds  

"Life's like a box of chocolates, you never know which one you'll get" (couldn't resist that one 8-) ) -- Forest Gump  

Take time-out 1/2 way through your day to ask "what have I done today?" Then act on your thoughts! Chances are if it was enough for you to ponder it, success is not far behind! -- Josh S. Hinds  

"I will not condemn you for what you did yesterday, If you do it right today." -Sheldon S. Maye

"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction." -- George Horace Lorimer (shared by Rebbecca R.)

"If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once." -- Sir Walter Scott (shared by Rebbecca R.)

"Don't ask for an easier life; ask to be a stronger person."  Shared by Kristen Goeser

"Embrace Change. True success can be defined by your ability to adapt to changing circumstances." -- By Connie Sky, Aim High!

"Failure is not my Destiny." -- Eric M.

"Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory" -- Sent By David Salton

"One who smiles rather than angers is always stronger" -- Chinese wisdom Sent By David Schary

"Everyone rides on the merry go round of life, but very few ever take the chance at the brass ring!" -- Kevin Veitch (Sent by Patti)

"There is no need to boast of your accomplishments and what you can do. A great man is known, he needs no introduction." -- Shared by CherLisa Biles

"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." -- Jeremy Kitson

"He who jumps to conclusions falls to their death." -- Mark J. Ottaviani

"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching." -- Author is Mark Twain / Samuel Clements (Shared by Vinny D.)

Be beautiful if you can, Wise if you want to... But be respected--that is essential. -- Anna Gould (Shared by Vinny D.)

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough. Unknown (Shared by Rebecca R.)

"If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page" -- Mark Houlahan

"There are 3 things that are certain in life: death, taxes and change. You can't avoid change, it's mandatory, progress however is optional." -- Bill R. Good, Jr.

"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare" -- Japanese Proverb (Sent in by Tom Palchak)

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but braver five minutes longer." -- Shared by Kelly C.

"The fear is worse than the pain." -- Shannon Bahr

"If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter" -- Chekov

"The optimist says we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true" -- Source Unknown"

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

"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?" -- Stephen Levine"I always view problems as opportunities in work clothes" -- Henry Kaiser"

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say" -- Ralph Waldo Emerson"

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure" -- Joseph Campbell

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years" -- Abraham Lincoln (previous quotes shared by Dani McCormack)

"If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure." -- David Ambrose
"A free lunch is only found in mousetraps." -- John Capuzzi (Share by Matt Healy)

The greatest good we can do for others is not to share our riches with them, but to reveal their own. - Author Unknown (sent by Juleah Tolosky)

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"It is not length of life, but depth of life." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All life is an experiment." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"People only see what they are prepared to see." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only way to have a friend is to be one." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We aim above the mark to hit the mark." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The years teach much which the days never knew." -Ralph Waldo Emerson (the previous were shared by VCG :-)

A brave man thinks no one superior who does him injury; for make himself superior to the other by forgiveness. -- Alexander Pope (shared by Mary G.)

"David wasn't thinking of being king when he was tending sheep; he was just doing what God sat before him." -- John Fisher

"Never let your memories be greater than your dreams." -- Doug Ivester (President of Coca Cola) Shared by Rose A.

"To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves." -- Peter McWilliams

"Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain." -- John Lithgow in Third Rock From the Sun (Shared by Ding G.)

"No man is capable of self-improvement if he sees no other model but himself." -- Conrado I. Generoso

"The hard way is the right way" -- John Alves

"Don't worry so much about what others think of you, they are not thinking of you that much! It's true" -- Shared By Cathleen G.

"Have FUN at work... Focus on the customer, Understand the value of your team, Never have a boring day!" -- Kevin Mays

"One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community." -- Albert Einstein (Shared by Maria)

Why? Why Not? Why Not You? Why Not Now? -- Aslan

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (sent by Jessica Cogen)

"The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack." -- (Shared by a member of our motivational community)

"You must pay in the past to receive in the future." -- Taylor Simpson

"In life, those that are great are those that dare to follow their dreams through the good times and the bad times." -- Shared by a member of our motivational community

"Smile well and often, it makes people wonder what you've been up to." -- Satchel Paige

 
Elements of success!

Thomas Edison tried two thousand different materials in search of a filament for the light bulb. When none worked satisfactorily, his assistant complained, "All our work is in vain. We have learned nothing." Edison replied very confidently, "Oh, we have come a long way and we have learned a lot. We now that there are two thousand elements which we cannot use to make a good light bulb."
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John Wooden, the great UCLA basketball coach, has a philosophy that every day he is supposed to help someone who can never reciprocate. That’s his obligation. 
When in college working on his masters thesis on scouting and defensive football, George Allen wrote up a 30-page survey and sent it out to the great coaches in the country. Eighty-five percent answered it completely. 
Great people will share, which is what made George Allen one of the greatest football coaches in the world. Great people will tell you their secrets. Look for them, call them on the phone or buy their books. Go where they are, get around them, talk to them. It is easy to be great when you get around great people. 
 
By Bob Richards 
Olympic Athlete 
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H. Jackson Brown Jr.
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
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Henry Ford
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret to success.
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John F. Kennedy
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
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Johnny Carson
Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'
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Eleanor Roosevelt
One thing life taught me -- if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you.
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Samuel Smiles
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
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Louis Pasteur
Luck favors the mind that is prepared.
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William Shakespeare
All things are ready, if our minds be so.
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William Arthur Ward
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
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J. B. Matthews
Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him look ridiculous.
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Charles F Kettering
I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
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Abraham Lincoln
If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.
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Confucius
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
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Donna de Varona
The values learned on the playing field - how to set goals, endure,take criticism and risks, become team players, use our beliefs, stay healthy and deal with stress - prepare us for life.
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Confucius
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
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Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his oportunity when it comes.
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Barbara De Angelis
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.
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Unknown Author
Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.
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Leo Durocher
You shouldn't save a pitcher for tomorrow.
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Unknown Author
The early bird gets the worm.

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Bear Bryant
If it is worth playing, it is worth paying the price to win.
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Tennessee Williams
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it ... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
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Bear Bryant
It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.
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James Allen
The most important day ever is TODAY.
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Unknown Author
Todays preparation determines tomorrow's achievement.
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John Dewey
Education is not a preparation for life ... education is life itself.
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Louis Pasteur
Chance favors the prepared mind.
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George Will
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
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Roger Staubach
Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something...hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.
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Bob Richards
You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do!
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spirational Quotes about "Preparation"
Emmitt Smith
For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds pyhsically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.
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Andrew Carnegie
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
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Robert Browning
My sun sets to rise again.
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Helen Keller
Optimism is the the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

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The I Can't Funeral
by Author Unknown

Donna's fourth grade classroom looked like many others I had seen in the past. The teacher's desk was in front and faced the students. The bulletin board featured student work. In most respects it appeared to be a typically traditional elementary classroom. Yet something seemed different that day I entered it for the first time.

My job was to make classroom visitations and encourage implementation of a training program that focused on language arts ideas that would empower students to feel good about themselves and take charge of their lives. Donna was one of the volunteer teachers who participated in this project.

I took an empty seat in the back of the room and watched. All the students were working on a task, filling a sheet of notebook paper with thoughts and ideas. The ten-year-old student next to me was filling her page with "I Can'ts". "I can't kick the soccer ball past second base." "I can't do long division with more than three numerals." "I can't get Debbie to like me." Her page was half full and she showed no signs of letting up. She worked on with determination and persistence. I walked down the row glancing at student's papers. Everyone was writing sentences, describing things they couldn't do.

By this time the activity engaged my curiosity, so I decided to check with the teacher to see what was going on but I noticed she too was busy writing. I felt it best not to interrupt. "I can't get John's mother to come for a teacher conference." "I can't get my daughter to put gas in the car." "I can't get Alan to use words instead of fists."

Thwarted in my efforts to determine why students and teacher were dwelling on the negative instead of writing the more positive "I Can" statements, I returned to my seat and continued my observations.

Students wrote for another ten minutes. They were then instructed to fold the papers in half and bring them to the front. They placed their "I Can't" statements into an empty shoe box. Then Donna added hers. She put the lid on the box, tucked it under her arm and headed out the door and down the hall.

Students followed the teacher. I followed the students. Halfway down the hallway Donna entered the custodian's room, rummaged around and came out with a shovel. Shovel in one hand, shoe box in the other, Donna marched the students out to the school to the farthest corner of the playground. There they began to dig. They were going to bury their "I Can'ts"!

The digging took over ten minutes because most of the fourth graders wanted a turn. The box of "I Can'ts" was placed in a position at the bottom of the hole and then quickly covered with dirt. Thirty-one 10 and 11 year-olds stood around the freshly dug grave site. At this point Donna announced, "Boys and girls, please join hands and bow your heads." They quickly formed a circle around the grave, creating a bond with their hands.

They lowered their heads and waited. Donna delivered the eulogy.

"Friends, we gathered here today to honor the memory of 'I Can't.' While he was with us here on earth, he touched the lives of everyone, some more than others. We have provided 'I Can't' with a final resting place and a headstone that contains his epitaph. His is survived by his brothers and sisters, 'I Can', 'I Will', and 'I'm Going to Right Away'. They are not as well known as their famous relative and are certainly not as strong and powerful yet. Perhaps some day, with your help, they will make an even bigger mark on the world. May 'I Can't' rest in peace and may everyone present pick up their lives and move forward in his absence. Amen."

As I listened I realized that these students would never forget this day. Writing "I Can'ts", burying them and hearing the eulogy. That was a major effort on this part of the teacher. And she wasn't done yet.

She turned the students around, marched them back into the classroom and held a wake. They celebrated the passing of "I Can't" with cookies, popcorn and fruit juices. As part of the celebration, Donna cut a large tombstone from butcher paper. She wrote the words "I Can't" at the top and put RIP in the middle. The date was added at the bottom. The paper tombstone hung in Donna's classroom for the remainder of the year.

On those rare occasions when a student forgot and said, "I Can't", Donna simply pointed to the RIP sign. The student then remembered that "I Can't" was dead and chose to rephrase the statement. I wasn't one of Donna's students. She was one of mine. Yet that day I learned an enduring lesson from her as years later, I still envision that fourth grade class laying to rest, "I Can't".

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THREE RULES AT WAL-MART
 
1)  "The customer is the boss and you have to work really hard to respect that fact."
 
2)  "If you take everyone who's involved in the company and make him or her a partner in the business, rather than having any employer-employee relationships, you solve a big problem."
 
3)  "If you empower the people to actually make decisions and act in serving the customer, then it all works. Then, it's just a matter of execution."
 
David Glass
CEO of Wal-Mart Stores
 
What's the difference between Wal-Mart and many other companies who say the same thing?
 
Wal-Mart DOES IT!

WHOS "REALLY IMPORTANT" IN YOUR ORGANIZATION?

A vice president at Southwest Airlines complained to CEO Herb Kelleher that he could never get in to see Mr. Kelleher. He said that Kelleher was always busy talking to mechanics, ticket agents, flight attendants, customers, etc.

Kelleher responded by looking the disgruntled VP right in the eye and said,

"Let me explain that to you very clearly: They are more important than you are."
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During the Second World War the Island of Corregidore was about to be captured by the Invading Japanese Army. The US Armed Forces had resources to only save a small number of the men trapped on that island. So the order was dispatched to save airline mechanics, pilots, engineers, and health professionals. When some of the Officers asked why they were not being taken out first the reply was givven - "You can make an officer by a act of Congress by an airline mechanic takes seven years."

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The average North American company spends
35% of its operating costs
doing something over to correct problems
caused by errors in communication!
If 99.9% is good enough,
then in the USA….

* 12 newborn babies will be given to the wrong parents each day
* 114,500 mismatched pairs of shoes will be shipped/year
* 18,322 pieces of mail will be mishandled every hour
* 2,000,000 documents will be lost by the IRS this year
* 2.5 million books will be shipped with the wrong covers
* 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled
* 20,000 drug prescriptions will be filled incorrectly in a year
* 880,000 credit cards in circulation will turn out to have incorrect cardholder information on their magnetic strips
* 103,260 income tax returns will be processed incorrectly during the year
* 5.5 million cases of soft drinks produced will be flat
* 291 pacemaker operations will be performed incorrectly
* 3056 copies of tomorrow's Wall Street Journal will be missing one of the three sections
* Two planes will crash each day at Chicago's O'Hare airport

NINE FAMOUS IRISHMEN

In the Young Irish Disorders of 1848, nine men were captured, tried and convicted of treason against HRH Queen Victoria and were sentenced to death. Their names were: Duffy, Meagher, McManus, Donahue, O'Gorman, Lyene, Ireland, McGee and Mitchell.

Before passing sentence, the judge asked if they wished to say anything. Meagher spoke for all and said, "My Lord, this is our first offence but not our last. If you will be easy with us this once, we promise on our word as gentlemen, to try and do better next time. And next time, we sure won't be fools to get caught."

Thereupon, the indignant judge sentenced them all to be hanged by the neck until dead, drawn and quartered and their body parts to be displayed as a lesson to all others who would think of rebelling against the Crown. But, passionate protest from around the world convinced the Queen to commute their sentences to life and transport to a prison in the wilds of Australia.

In 1874, word reached an astounded Queen Victoria that the Sir Charles Duffy who was Prime Minister of Australia, was the same Charles Duffy who had been convicted of treason twenty-five years before. On the Queen's demand, the lives of the other eight Irishmen were researched and this is what they revealed. While some stayed in Australia, others left for North America.

· Thomas Francis Meagher, Governor of the US State of Montana.
· Terrence McManus, General, US Army.
· Patrick Donahue, General, US Army.
· Richard O'Gorman, Governor General of the Canadian Province of Newfoundland.
· Morris Lyene, Attorney General of Australia.
· Michael Ireland, succeeded Lyene as Attorney General of Australia.
· Thomas Darcy McGee, MP from Montreal, later Minister of Agriculture of Canada and President of the Council of the Dominion of Canada.
· John Mitchell, prominent New York politician, the father of John Purroy Mitchell who was later Mayor of New York City.

The Moral?

NEVER, NEVER GIVE UP!
You think YOU have to make TOUGH DECISIONS?

During World War II, with hard work and a great deal of luck, the British broke the secret code of the German High Command. Consequently, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his generals knew, in advance, many of the Nazi's plans; particularly for bombing campaigns against England.

When his intelligence officers told him of the Luftwaffe's plans to launch a major strike against the key industrial city of Coventry, Churchill, known for quick decisions on most matters, had one of the toughest decisions a leader would ever have to make.

1. Should he order the city evacuated and the RAF mobilized to repel the attack? By doing so, Britain would send a clear signal to the Nazis that their code had been broken, causing them to replace the code with one that may NEVER be solved.
Or ….

2. Does he keep silent and do nothing, thereby not letting the German's know that their code had been compromised? The result of such a decision would cause thousands of British civilians to meet violent deaths in the attack.

Seems like a "no brainer" doesn't it? How could a leader let thousands of innocent people die when he has the power to save them?

But consider this. With the war being fought on many fronts and with the impending invasion (D-Day) of Hitler's "Fortress Europe" looming on the horizon …. KNOWLEDGE OF NAZI PLANS WOULD BE ESSENTIAL IN ORDER TO SHORTEN THE WAR AND THUS SAVE MILLIONS OF LIVES!

Churchill agonizingly weighed his options and decided not to evacuate Coventry. As the hour of the attack approached, imagine how he must have felt, alone at 10 Downing Street, receiving the reports over the phone.

"Sir! German bombers approaching Coventry!" ("I can still stop this!")

"Mr. Prime Minister! Bombing has commenced!" ("God help me! What have I done?")

"Sir! Massive destruction of human life and property!" ("Oh no! The children!")

History proved Churchill's decision to have been correct. Decoded messages of German plans gave the Allies an incredible advantage, DID help shorten the war and DID save millions of lives. (Consider also: Through decoded messages we learned the Germans were getting very close to splitting the atom. What would have been the consequences of a longer war with Hitler having a thermonuclear weapon he could deliver on a V-2 rocket and detonate over London, Manchester or Glasgow?)

Perhaps this story will help us to approach our decision-making from a different perspective. How many "REALLY TOUGH" decisions do we have to make in our lives?
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Making Quick Decisions...


A Major League fastball leaves the pitcher's hand about 55 feet from home plate, at a speed of 90+ miles per hour.

The ball reaches the plate in 4/10 second.

The hitter has 2/10 second to decide whether or not to swing and another 2/10 second (give or take a few 1/100 second) to execute the swing.

The pitch is only "hitable" about two feet of its flight, which figures out to 15/1,000 second.

Puts decision-making time frames
in a different perspective doesn't it?

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THE PEOPLE THAT MATTER
 
Most people think that being happy is what matters in life.  I do not agree, to "have mattered" that is what is important.  I want to "have mattered" when I assume room temperature.  I want to have made a difference.
 
Who are these people that mattered?  Can you name five of the wealthiest people in the world?  Can you name five Heisman Trophy winners?  Do you recall five Miss America's?  Could you list six or so Academy Award winners if you had to in 10 minutes?  Who won the National Championship in College football three years ago, and can you name five of the last ten champions?
 
Well, how did you do?
 
The point here is that I don't remember so well the people we think of as "the greats," the movers and shakers, the famous people; the ones that were the very best, not second-rate, but the very best at what they did.  But, I can't remember them.
 
However, can you list three teachers that made a difference in your life? How long would it take you to write down five friends that helped you thru the most difficult times in your life?  Write down a coach, a speaker, a minister, or a total stranger that changed your life forever.
 
Was this a little easier for you?  I hope so, because these are the "people that mattered" in your life, not the ones with the most money, the most credentials or the most awards.  The awards will tarnish and rust, I know, I have a shed full of them.  But the people that have mattered to me are the ones that cared about me, my sons and my future.
 
I thank God everyday for them and all I want to be is like that to someone else, I want to matter.
 
Unknown Author

NO TIME TO DO THINGS?

There were only twenty-four hours in the day, just as now; but before he died, he accomplished the following:

��Finished college in less than three years;
��Admitted to the bar at the age of twenty-four;
��Introduced crop rotation and terracing to the US;
��Designed and built his own home;
��Designed one of his country�s leading universities;
��Designed the capital building of his home state;
��Invented a plow, lettercopy press, manifold signing machine,
double-swinging doors a seven day calendar clock and
countless other gadgets;
��Learned to play the violin;
��Originated the decimal system for US currency;
��Learned to speak fluently:� Latin, Greek, Italian, French,
German, Old Anglo-Saxon, and several Native
American languages;
��Became a serious scholar in mathematics, philosophy,
economics, history, civics, and geography;
��Created the public school system in his state;
��Became President of a major university;
��Established the US Military Academy at West Point and
designed the uniforms the cadets wear to this day;
��Wrote the rules of parliamentary procedure under which the
US Senate still operates;
��Fought for a system of government where the people would
rule .... not the aristocracy;
��Wrote 16,000 letters in longhand to friends and colleagues
around the world;
��Served as a member of his state legislature, governor of his
state, Minister to France, Secretary of State, Vice President
and President of the US for two terms;
��Designed his own tombstone and wrote his own epitaph,
listing the three accomplishments of which he was most
proud .......

HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON
AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE,
AUTHOR OF THE STATUTES OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM,
AND, FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.

In these present days of labor and time saving devices such as computers, automobiles, airplanes, telephones etc. ........ how can we dare say�.. we don�t have the time?

NO TIME TO DO THINGS?
 
There were only twenty-four hours in the day, just as now; but before he died, he accomplished the following:
 
·        Finished college in less than three years;
·        Admitted to the bar at the age of twenty-four;
·        Introduced crop rotation and terracing to the US;
·        Designed and built his own home;
·        Designed one of his country’s leading universities;
·        Designed the capital building of his home state;
·        Invented a plow, lettercopy press, manifold signing machine, double-swinging doors a seven day calendar clock and countless other gadgets;
·        Learned to play the violin;
·        Originated the decimal system for US currency;
·        Learned to speak fluently:  Latin, Greek, Italian, French, German, Old Anglo-Saxon, and several Native American languages;
·        Became a serious scholar in mathematics, philosophy, economics, history, civics, and geography;
·        Created the public school system in his state;
·        Became President of a major university;
·        Established the US Military Academy at West Point and designed the uniforms the cadets where to this day;
·        Wrote the rules of parliamentary procedure under which the US Senate still operates;
·        Fought for a system of government where the people would rule .... not the aristocracy;
·        Wrote 16,000 letters in longhand to friends and colleagues around the world;
·        Served as a member of his state legislature, governor of his state, Minister to France, Secretary of State, Vice President and President of the US for two terms;
·        Designed his own tombstone and wrote his own epitaph, listing the three accomplishments of which he was most proud .......
 
HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON
AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE,
AUTHOR OF THE STATUTES OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM,
AND, FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.
 
In these present days of labor and time saving devices such as computers, automobiles, airplanes, telephones etc. ........ how can we dare say….. we don’t have the time?

Friday, July 25, 2003

All I Ever Really
Needed to Know I Learned
in Kindergarten.
By: Robert Fulghum
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Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandbox at nursery school.

These are the things I learned: Share everything. Play fair. Don’t hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don’t take things that aren’t yours. Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the plastic cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.

Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the plastic cup. . . they all die. So do we.

And then remember the book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK. Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and sane living.

Think of what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about 3 o’clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. Or if we had a basic policy in our nations to always put things back where we found them and clean up our own messes. And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.
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Lessons from Geese

Fact 1: As each goose flaps its wings it creates an "uplift" for the
birds that follow. By flying in a "V" formation, the whole flock adds
71% greater flying range than if each bird flew alone.

Lesson 1: People who share a common direction and sense of
community can get where they are going quicker and easier
because they are traveling on the thrust of one another.

Fact 2: When a goose falls out of formation, it suddenly feels the
drag and resistance of flying alone. It quickly moves back into
formation to take advantage of the lifting power of the bird in front
of it.

Lesson 2: If we have as much common sense as a goose, we stay
in formation with those headed where we want to go. We are
willing to accept their help and give our help to others.

Fact 3: When the lead goose tires, it rotates back into the
formation and another goose flies to the point position.

Lesson 3: It pays to take turns doing the hard tasks and sharing
leadership. As with geese, people are interdependent on each
others' skills, capabilities, and unique arrangements of gifts,
talents, or resources.

Fact 4: Geese flying in formation honk to encourage those up front
to keep up their speed.

Lesson 4: We need to make sure our honking is encouraging. In
groups where there is encouragement, the production is much
greater. The power of encouragement (to stand by one's heart or
core values and encourage the heart and core of others) is the
quality of honking we seek.

Fact 5: When a goose gets sick, wounded, or shot down, two
geese drop out of formation and follow it down to help protect it.
They stay with it until it dies or is able to fly again. Then, they launch
out with another formation or catch up with the flock.

Lesson 5: If we have as much sense as geese, we will stand by
each other in difficult times as well as when we are strong.

-- From Christine Hill
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A Special Teacher

Years ago a John Hopkin's professor gave a group of graduate
students this assignment: Go to the slums. Take 200 boys,
between the ages of 12 and 16, and investigate their background
and environment. Then predict their chances for the future.

The students, after consulting social statistics, talking to the boys,
and compiling much data, concluded that 90 percent of the boys
would spend some time in jail.

Twenty-five years later another group of graducate students was
given the job of testing the prediction. They went back to the same
area. Some of the boys - by then men - were still there, a few had
died, some had moved away, but they got in touch with 180 of the
original 200. They found that only four of the group had ever been
sent to jail.

Why was it that these men, who had lived in a breeding place of
crime, had such a surprisingly good record? The researchers were
continually told: "Well, there was a teacher..."

They pressed further, and found that in 75 percent of the cases it
was the same woman. The researchers went to this teacher, now
living in a home for retired teachers. How had she exerted this
remarkable influence over that group of children? Could she give
them any reason why these boys should have remembered her?

"No," she said, "no I really couldn't." And then, thinking back over
the years, she said musingly, more to herself than to her
questioners: "I loved those boys...."

Bits & Pieces - June 1995
Economics Press
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Wednesday, July 23, 2003

"The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before."
* Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
* American author, "A Message to Garcia"

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"The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before."
* Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
* American author, "A Message to Garcia"

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Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble.
* Stanley Kubrick

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If you give a man a fish, he will have a single meal. If you teach him how to fish, he will eat all his life."
* Kwan-Tzu

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"He who can , does. He who cannot, teaches."
* George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
* Irish-born British playwright, founder "Fabian Society", Nobel

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"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. (Plato's Apology)"

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"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers."
* Socrates (470?-399 BC)
* Greek philosopher initiated a question-and-answer method of teaching

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"The unexamined life is not worth living."
* Socrates (470?-399 BC)
* Greek philosopher initiated a question-and-answer method of teaching

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"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."
* Socrates (470?-399 BC)
* Greek philosopher initiated a question-and-answer method of teaching

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"Let him that would move the world, first move himself."
* Socrates (470?-399 BC)
* Greek philosopher initiated a question-and-answer method of teaching

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"Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best."
* Bob Talbert

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"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
* Seeds of Greatness

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"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."
* William Arthur Ward

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"To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do to another."
* Benjamin Jowett

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"Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson."
* Vernon Law

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"Whoever cares to learn will always find a teacher."
* German Proverb

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"Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months."
* Anthony J. D'Angelo

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"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
* Albert Einstein (1875-1955)
* German-born American theoretical physicist, theories of relativity, philosopher

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"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."
* B. B. King

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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century."
* Alfred Edward Perlman

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"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."
* Chinese Proverb

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"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."
* Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4BC?-AD 65)
* [The Younger] Roman Stoic philosopher, writer, tutor

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A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary."
* Thomas Carruthers

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"I've learned that I like my teacher because she cries when we sing Silent Night."
* Child Age 7
* A child's 'eye view'

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"Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education."
* Chuang-Tzu (4th century BC)
* Chinese philosopher, teacher

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"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn."
* Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
* Roman statesman, orator, philosopher

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3. "If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others."
* Tryon Edwards (1809-94)
* Writer, author

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"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge".
* Albert Einstein (1875-1955)
* German-born American theoretical physicist, theories of relativity, philosopher

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"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig."
* Saying Folk

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"When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied, "Only stand out of my light." Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light."
* John W(illiam) Gardner (b. 1912)
* President, Carnegie Foundation

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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
* Aristotle

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Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
* Bible --Proverbs 22:6

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Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.
* Lord Chesterfield

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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
* Ilya Ehrenburg

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* Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.
* Sir Claus Moser

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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
* B. F. Skinner
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Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all.
* Thomas Szasz

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Monday, July 21, 2003

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.
(George Bernard Shaw )

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Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal. (Vincent Lombardi)

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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. (Erica Jong )

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Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
(Leo Buscaglia )

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Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish. (Sam Walton)

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A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves. (Jean De La Bruyere )

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Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything. (Harry Browne)

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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
(Albert Einstein)

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We tend to live up to our expectations.
(Earl Nightingale)

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I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
(H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
(Charles Kettering)

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High expectations are the key to everything.
(Sam Walton)

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Excellence ...is not an act, but a habit.
(Aristotle)

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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
(Vincent Lombardi)

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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
(Charles Brower)

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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
(Pablo Picasso)

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A True Story....(KLF)

I was a teacher at a secondary city school some years ago.
I had moved into the same community as my school and
most of my students knew where I lived.

One day I had a confrontation with a student at school who
decided to take revenge by throwing a brick threw my
car windshield. A neighbor viewed the event and told me the
student who had done the deed.

A police officer came to the house, took the student name
and promised to investigate the event. Several hours later
he came back and told me he had a "taught the kid a
serious lesson with the back of his hand."

I felt sick to hear the report and could only offer the
observation to him that "you have that student a lesson -
but the lesson was only to hate policemen and the law."

(K.Forrest)

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Sunday, July 20, 2003

"I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education."
- Wilson Mizner
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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
- Voltaire

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THE COLOR PURPLE (a true story)

The kindergarten teacher was very concerned that
one of her new students would only use the color
purple at the art workstation. After discussion with
her fellow teachers they recommended that the child
be send for consuling since the color purple suggested
some macabre thoughts.

The school counselor took the young man into his
office and carefully began his dialogue with the student.
Eventually he posed the big question to the student:
"Why do you always use the color purple in your art
work?" The student sheepishly lowered his head and said:
"The first day of school I had to go pee and couldn't
find the restroom so I filled all the jars except for the
purple one."
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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
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WHO WON?

An instructor of Latin at a private boarding school
would periodically hold debates among his students
in the ancient language.

He noticed that frequently the custodian would sit
in the back of his classroom and listen to the student
debates. Presuming that the man spoke Latin he
approached him and offered a greeting in Latin.

The custodian looked as him confused. The teacher
apologized and said: "I see you frequently watching
the Latin debates and I assumed that you knew the
language." The custodian said "No, I was only watching
the students debate." Whereupon the teacher asked:
"How would you know who won the debate?" The
old custodian smiled and said: "The one who did not
loose their temper first."
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Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.

(Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)
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Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.

(Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)
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Saturday, July 19, 2003

THE WAY.....

People always ask how to follow Tao. It is as easy and natural as the heron standing in the water. The bird moves when it must; it does not move when stillness is appropriate.

The secret of its serenity is a type of vigilance, a contemplative state. The heron is not in mere dumbness or sleep. It knows a lucid stillness. It stands unmoving in the flow of the water. It gazes unperturbed and is aware. When Tao brings it something that it needs, it seizes the opportunity without hesitation or deliberation. Then it goes back to its quiescence without disturbing itself or its surroundings. Unless it found the right position in the water's flow and remained patient, it would not have succeeded.

Actions in life can be reduced to two factors; positioning and timing. If we are not in the right place at the right time, we cannot possibly take advantage of what life has to offer us.

Almost anything is appropriate if an action is in accord with the time and place. But we must be vigilant and prepared. Even if the time and the place are right, we can still miss our chance if we do not notice the moment, if we act inadequately, or if we hamper ourselves with doubts and second thoughts.

When life presents an opportunity, we must be ready to seize it without hesitation or inhibition. Position is useless without awareness. If we have both, we make no mistakes.

(Deng Ming-Dao)
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MOTIVATION.....

There were two warring tribes in the Andes, one that lived in the lowlands and the other high in the mountains. The mountain people invaded the lowlanders one day, and as part of their plundering of the people, they kidnapped a baby of one of the lowlander families and took the infant with them back up into the mountains.

The lowlanders didn't know how to climb the mountain. They didn't know any of the trails that the mountain people used, and they didn't know where to find the mountain people or how to track them in the steep terrain.

Even so, they sent out their best party of fighting men to climb the mountain and bring the baby home.

The men tried first one method of climbing and then another. They tried one trail and then another. After several days of effort, however, they had climbed only several hundred feet.

Feeling hopeless and helpless, the lowlander men decided that the cause was lost, and they prepared to return to their village below.

As they were packing their gear for the descent, they saw the baby's mother walking toward them. They realized that she was coming down the mountain that they hadn't figured out how to climb.

And then they saw that she had the baby strapped to her back. How could that be?

One man greeted her and said, "We couldn't climb this mountain. How did you do this when we, the strongest and most able men in the village, couldn't do it?"

She shrugged her shoulders and said, "It wasn't your baby."

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"There is I.Q. - and I WILL."
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When we teach a child to draw, we teach him to see.  When we teach a child to play a musical instrument, we teach her how to listen.  When we teach a child to dance, we teach him how to move through life with grace.  When we teach a child to read and write, we teach her how to think.  When we nurture imagination, we create a better world, one child at a time.

- Jane Alexander, Imagine
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Confucius said, "Hear…and forget. See…and remember. Do…and understand."
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Learning is experience.  Everything else is just information.
-Albert Einstein
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Too Much Education Can Get You Killed....

It was the time of the French Revolution and three people were arrested as enemies of the people. One was a priest, another a lawyer and the last an engineer.

They led the three men out to the guillotine and first placed the priest in the stock and pulled the lever. The blade thundered down the rack and stuck just before it severed the priest's head. The crowd roared in unison "Its Gods' will - let him go free." And so he was released.

Next the Lawyer was placed in the rank and again the blade stuck half way down.

Finally, the engineer was placed in the stock. He looks up and says " Wait! I think I see what the problem is."

(Sometimes your insights should be kept to yourself.)
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A True Story....(Making your X in life)

Henry Ford was noted for his frugality as well as his
giant industrial contructions.

During the 1930's Ford constructed a mile long
factory in Dearborn Michigan to manufacturer
his automobiles.

As the factory neared completion Ford had a
thousand workers at their posts ready for production.

Because the factory was so large it required
its own dynamo (three stories tall and 80 feet in
diameter) to regulate the power distribution to the
thousands of electrical devices.

As the main power switch was thrown at Fords
command - nothing happened. Ford barked orders
to his engineers to "fix the problem." But as the
engineers gaized at the enormous dynamo none of
them could figure out where to start in solving such
an enormous problem.

Finally Ford said "If you can't solve the problem get
me someone who can." After a consultation they
recommended that only someone as brilliant as the physicist
"Marconi" could resolve it.

Ford ordered a call to Marconi and told him to "come at
once, regardless of expense."

Marconi arrived at the plant that same day amidst the
idle workmen. Ford was frantic as he was paying all the
men. Marconi looked at the dyanmo, made a number of
measurements, looked at the gauges and sat down for
several hours making complex calculations. Finally he
walked over to the side of the dyanmo and made an "X."
"Here", he said. "remove these plates and you will find
a defective coil approximately three feet inside."

All the engineers looked at each other in amazement but
Ford told them to do it. After several hours of work they
found the defective coil and Ford was elated. He shook
Marconi's hand and told him to "send me the bill."

Several weeks later Ford received the bill from Marconi
for his services - a bill for $10,000. Ford fumed and send
Marconi a letter asking him how he could charge such an
enormous amount of money (worth $100,000 or more in
the year 2000) for doing only "a couple of hours of work
and merely placing an X on the side of the dyanmo."

A few days later Ford received a reply from Marconi.
The letter read:

"Dear Mr. Ford,

Placing the "X" on the side of the dynamo was FREE -
but knowing WHERE to place the "X" was $10,000."

Ford sent him the check for $10,000.

(This is another good anecdote to explain that knowledge
and education are irreplaceable tools in our life. Where
will you place your "X" in life?) KLF
Marking Time.....

If you ever have the opportunity to visit the Dearborn
Ford Museum try to visit the Edison exhibits.

In his labratory there is a clock which has no hands.
As the guide remarked: "Edison always believed that
it was important to keep time by your accomplishments
and not minutes and hours of the day."

(true for all of us....)

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Which Way Do We Go From Here?
(Alice in Wonderland)

As Alice along the garden road she came to a fork.
"Which way shall I go from here she said?"
The Cheshire cat looked down from his branch and said:
"Where do you want to go?"
"I don't know" she said.
Then, it doesn't matter which road you take.

(A good starter story to remind us it is important
to have a sense of direction with our lives.)
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