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December 2005
"If you don't ask the right
questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right way
often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis. Only
the inquiring mind solves problems."
Edward Hodnett
**Thank you to Cindy McClung FT Myers, FL for
contributing this quote
November 2005
"Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans."
"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard
work"
Peter F. Drucker
October 2005
"You do not lead
by hitting people over the head — that's assault, not leadership."
Dwight
D. Eisenhower
September 2005
"I don't know the key to
success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
Bill Cosby
August
2005
"He who opens a
school door, closes a prison."
Victor Hugo
"Real education must ultimately be limited to
men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding."
Ezra Pound
July
2005
"...the ultimate responsibility for
your destiny lies with you. The question is not what the world does to you but
how you make an impact on the world. Decision-making is ultimately a creative
act."
Jim Collins (researcher/author of Good to
Great and Built to Last
Perceptions are Reality
"Many of the truths that we cling to
depend on our point of view."
OB1-Wan Kenobi
June 2005
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world
owes you nothing. It was here first."
Mark Twain
May 2005
"Success is getting what you want.
Happiness is
wanting what you get."
Dale Carnegie
April 2005
If I had learned
education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
March 2005
"Only two things are
infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the
former."
Albert Einstein
February 2005
The three building blocks for improving
schools (and businesses) are (1) a commitment to stop blaming; (2) the
establishment of clear aims; and (3) agreement on a definition of improvement.
Jenkins,
Lee Improving School Learning Applying Deming’s Principles in the Classroom.
ASQC Quality Press: Milwaukee, WI. 1997.
January 2005
Albert Einstein on Responsibility
"A hundred
times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the
labors of other men,
living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same
measure as I have received and am still receiving."
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