December
The only lifelong, reliable
motivations are those that come
from within, and one of the
strongest of those is the joy
and pride that grow from knowing
that you've just done something
as well as you can do it.
Lloyd Dobyns and Clare
Crawford-Mason,
Thinking About Quality
Perfection
is not attainable, but if we
chase perfection we can catch
excellence.
The quality
of a person’s life is in direct
proportion to their commitment
to excellence, regardless of
their chosen field of endeavor.
Vince Lombardi
Winning is a
habit.
Unfortunately, so is
losing.
Vince Lombardi
We would
accomplish many more things if
we did not think of them as
impossible.
Vince Lombardi
November
"However
beautiful the strategy, you
should occasionally look at the
results."
Sir
Winston Churchill
"There
are no secrets to success. It is
the result of preparation, hard
work, and learning from failure."
Colin
Powell
“You can
observe a lot just by watching.”
Yogi Berra
October
The very ink
with which history is written is
merely fluid prejudice.
Mark Twain
Irreverence
is the champion of liberty and
its one sure defense.
You cannot
depend on your eyes when your
imagination is out of focus.
Thomas Jefferson
The
difference between stupidity and
genius is genius has its limits.
If the
cluttered desk signs a cluttered
mind, of what, then, is an empty
desk a sign?
Albert
Einstein
A child
miseducated is a child lost.
John F. Kennedy
Happiness is
not achieved by the consistent
pursuit of happiness; it is
generally the by
product of other
activities.
Facts do not cease to exist
because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley
September
He who opens
a school door, closes a prison.
Victor
Hugo
The great
difficulty in education is to
get experience out of ideas.
George
Santayana
Education
is what survives when what has
been learned has been forgotten.
B.
F. Skinner
The only
person who is educated is the
one who has learned how to learn
and change.
Carl
Rogers
August
- A sense
of humor is part of the art
of leadership, of getting
along with people, of
getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
-
Leadership and learning are
indispensable to each other.
John
F. Kennedy
To will is to set a
goal, determine a course of
action that will bring one
to that goal,
and then hold on to
that action till the goal is
reached. The key is action.
Michael Hanson
Creative risk taking is
essential to success in any goal
where the stakes are high.
Thoughtless risks are
destructive, of course, but
perhaps even more wasteful is
thoughtless caution which
prompts inaction and promotes
failure to seize opportunity.
Gary
Ryan Blair
Whoever wants to reach a
distant goal must take small
steps.
Saul Bellows
July
"The
people I distrust most are
those who want to improve
our lives but have only one
course of action."
Frank Herbert
US science fiction novelist
(1920 - 1986)
"Do
what you feel in your heart
to be right - for you'll be
criticized anyway. You'll be
damned if you do, and damned
if you don't."
Eleanor Roosevelt
June
When I first
heard Elvis’s voice I just knew
that I wasn’t going to work for
anybody and nobody was gonna
be my boss. Hearing him for the
first time was like busting out
of jail.
Bob Dylan
There is nothing more deceptive
than an obvious fact.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A right is
not what someone gives you; it’s
what no one can take from you.
Ramsey Clark
The Founding
Fathers gave the free press the
protection it must have [to]
bare the secrets of government
and inform the people.
Hugo Black
Example is
not the main thing in
influencing others. It is the
only thing.
Albert
Schweitzer
I
have depended on books not only
for pleasure and for the wisdom
they bring to all who read, but
also for that knowledge which
comes to others through their
eyes and their ears.
Helen Keller
May
Personally
I’m always ready to learn,
although I do not always like
being taught.
Sir
Winston Churchill
The important
thing is not to stop
questioning.
Albert Einstein
To punish me
for my contempt for authority,
fate made me an authority
myself.
Albert Einstein
April
Rewards
and punishments are the lowest form
of education.
Zhuang
Zi Chinese Philosopher 296 BC
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Facts do not cease to exist because
they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley
Happiness is not achieved by the
conscious pursuit of happiness...it
is generally the by-product of
other
materials.
Aldous Huxley
March
“If you can't describe what you
are doing as a process, you
don't know what you're doing.”
W.
Edwards Deming
"A Numerical
goal without a method is
nonsense"
W. Edwards Deming
February
Bodily exercise, when
compulsory, does no harm to the
body; but knowledge which is
acquired under compulsion
obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato
Chance favors
only the prepared mind.
Louis
Pasteur
January
There is no
way to happiness, rather
happiness is
the way.
