Persisting

_Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.-Martha Graham, dancer and choreographer

Patience is the companion of wisdom.-St. Augustine

I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I willtake another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult...I know thatsmall attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.-Og Mandino, author

There is no failure except in no longer trying.-Elbert Hubbard,

Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.-Martha Graham, dancer and choreographer

I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I willtake another, and yet another.-In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult..

.I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.-Og Mandino, author

There is no failure except in no longer trying.-Elbert Hubbard,

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.-Walter Elliott

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of theday saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'-Mary Anne Radmacher, American writer

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the qualityof perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.-John Rockefeller, industrialist

Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.-Martha Graham, dancer and choreographer

I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I willtake another, and yet another.In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.I know thatsmall attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.-Og Mandino, author

There is no failure except in no longer trying.-Elbert Hubbard

Managing Impulsivity

_We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry.-John Burroughs

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.-Nietzsche

Our patience will achieve more than our force.-Edmund Burke

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degree-Shakespeare

I will be the pattern of all patience.-Shakespeare

The fates have given mankind a patient soul.-Homer

The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts -- theless you know the hotter you get.-Bertrand Russell,

All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where hewants to go.-Norman Vincent Peale

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.-Barbara Johnson, literary critic and professor

I kept myself calm by making sure I didn't concentrate on anything I couldn't control.

-B.J. Bedford,Olympic swimmer

Patience is the companion of wisdom.-St. Augustine

In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.-Cicero

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.-Bonnie Friedman, author

One important key to success is self-confidence.An important key to self-confidence ispreparation-Arthur Ashe, Champion

The wise man thinks once before he speaks twice.-Robert Benchley

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid one hundred days of sorrow.-Chinese proverb

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; thehardest victory is the victory over self.-Aristotle

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.-Ann Landers

Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.-Lorraine Hansberry

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and thereis an invisible labor.-Victor Hugo

One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply lightand not heat.-Woodrow Wilson

How poor are they that have not patience! / What wound did ever heal but by degrees?-Shakespeare (Othello)

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.-Georges Louis Leclerc

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.-Ovid

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxiousover the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement andfailure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, whicheventually leads to success.-Brian Adams

All things pass ... Patience attains all it strives for.-St. Theresa of Avila

He who hurries can not walk with dignity.-Chinese Proverb

The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.-Norman Vincent Peale

When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.-Thomas Jefferson

I stop and taste my words before I let them pass my teeth.-Anonymous

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someoneelse do it wrong, without comment.-Theodore H. White , reporter and author

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, toleave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.-Benjamin Franklin

Before speaking, consider the interpretation of your words as well as their intent.-Andrew Alden

Patience is passion tamed.-Lyman Abbott, minister

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.-Vincent Van Gogh

Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a1,000 percent return on energy!

-Brian Tracy, author and speaker

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, toleave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.-Benjamin Franklin,

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.-Lida Clarkson

Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.-Confucius

It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.-Benjamin Franklin

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but toleave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.-Dorothy Nevill

The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to followthrough.-Harry A. Overstreet

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.-Vincent Van Gogh

Speak when you're angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.-Laurence Peter

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

Action without study is fatal. Study without action is futile.-Mary Beard

Think twice before you speak - and you'll find everyone talking about something else.-Francis Rodman

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.-Olive Schriner

Its better to sleep on things beforehand than to lie awake about them afterward.-Balthasar Graciare

....goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotionalself-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of a goal, whether it be buildinga business, solving an algebraic equation, or pursuing the Stanley cup.-Daniel Goleman

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.-Andrew Jackson

Look twice before you leap.-Charlotte Bronte

I can give you a six word formula for success: Think things through - then followthrough.-Eddie Rickenbacker

The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application ofreason.-Marya Mannes

Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.-Vincent van Gogh

One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear presentfrustrations in the interests of longer purposes.-Helen Merrell Lynd

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.-George Jean Nathan

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.-Winston Churchill

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.-Victor Hugo

Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.-William James

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.-Ralph W. Sockman

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously andunconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all

aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge ofyourself.-Robert F. Bennett, U.S. Senator

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.-Dutch Proverb

Before you start up a ladder, count the rungs.-Yiddish proverb

Listening With Empathy and Understanding

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

The way of being with another person which is termed empathic means temporarilyliving in their life, moving abut in it delicately without making judgments... To be withanother in this way means that for the time being you lay aside the views and valuesyou hold for yourself in order to enter the other's world without prejudice; a complex,demanding, strong yet subtle and gentle way of being.-Carl Rogers

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but toleave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.-Dorothy Nevill

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.-Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.-Marge Piercy

He who guards his mouth keeps his life, but he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.-Proverbs 13:3

Dialogue is about people-listening to them, empathizing with them, and humblingourselves for a moment that we might understand a different view.-Science & Spirit: Connecting Science, Religion and Life, January/February 2001 p. 7)

A unique relationship develops among team members who enter into dialogue regularly.They develop a deep trust that cannot help but carry over to discussions. They developa richer understanding of the uniqueness of each person's point of view.-Peter Senge

Real dialogue is where two or more people become willing to suspend their certainty ineach other's presence.-David Bohm

Think twice before you speak - and you'll find everyone talking about something else.-Francis Rodman

Try to see it my way, only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong. While you see it yourway, there's a chance that we might fall apart before too long. We can work it out. W ecan work it out.-John Lennon and Paul McCartney

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.-Keanu Reeves

Dialogue's sole purpose is to create something that has not previously been thought byany individual prior to the dialogue. It's purpose is not to share information but to createinformation...-Michael McMaster

If there is any secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point ofview and see things from his angle as well as from your own.-Henry Ford.

Nothing increases the respect and gratitude of one man for another more than when heis heard exactly and with interest.-R. Umbach

Listening is the beginning of understanding..... Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime oflistening. Let the wise listen and add to their learning and let the discerning getguidance-Proverbs 1:5

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to knowsomething.-Wilson Mizner

Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed withbeing right?-Wayne W. Dyer

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up toyou a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

-George Bernard Shaw

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully Most people neverlisten.-Ernest Hemingway

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.-Marge Piercy

Dialogue is a space where we may see the assumptions which lay beneath the surfaceof our thoughts, assumptions which drive us, assumptions around which we buildorganizations, create economies, form nations and religions. These assumptionsbecome habitual, mental habits that drive us, confuse us and prevent our respondingintelligently to the challenges we face every day.-David Bohm

Silent and listen are spelled with the same letters!-Unknown

Criticizing others is a dangerous thing, not so much because you may make mistakesabout them, but because you may be revealing the truth about yourself.-Harold Medina

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often complimentyou for being a good conversationalist.-Jesse Ventura

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.-Plutarch

If you're forming a rebuttal, you're not really listening.-Jane Klivans, Bank One Investment Group,

If you spend more time asking appropriate questions rather than giving answers oropinions, your listening skills will increase.-Brian Koslow

Two monologues do not make a dialogue.-Jeff Daly

When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts are frustrated, it islifesaving to listen to other people's problems.-Suzanne Massie

There are very few people who don't become more interesting when they stop talking.-Mary Lowry

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.-Dean Rusk, U.S. Secretary of State

Become the world's most thoughtful friend.-H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Author

If you can learn a simple trick, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. Younever really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... untilyou climb into his skin and walk around in it.-Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or yourself-confidence.-Robert Frost

Think in terms of what's good for the other person and success will seek you out.-Mary Kay Ash, Entrepreneur

Hearing is a passive activity -- you're allowing sound waves to penetrate your ear. Inlistening, you actively determine meaning to what is heard - you listen with your eyesand ears. You're in control when a customer is talking about his problem, and out ofcontrol when you're talking about yourself.-Carolyn Riddle, Sales Personnel

To listen fully means to pay close attention to what is being said beneath the words.You listen not only to the 'music,' but to the essence of the person speaking. You listennot only for what someone knows, but for what he or she is. Ears operate at the speedof sound, which is far slower than the speed of light the eyes take in. Generativelistening is the art of developing deeper silences in yourself, so you can slow our mind'shearing to your ears' natural speed, and hear beneath the words to their meaning.-Peter Senge

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.-American Indian Proverb

The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.---John A. Simone, Jr.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.-Napoleon

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.-Margaret Millar

Nature has given men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.---Epictetus

Being listened to is so close to being loved that most people cannot tell the difference.-David Oxberg

A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he maydisagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he isdisagreeing with.-Kenneth A. Wells

There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.-Frank Tyger

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.-Martin Fraquhar Tupper

Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue.-Anon.

The wise man has long ears and a short tongue.-German Proverb

Listen and hear not only what you thought you wanted to hear. Listen and hear whatyou have to learn.-Ralph S. Marston, Jr.

Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.-Native American Proverb

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.-Dr. Joyce Brothers

You cannot know who is going to bring you your future. You cannot qualify them inadvance by looking at degrees, or experience, or gender or race. You can only listen!-Joel Barker Future Edge

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.-Mignon McLaughlin

The first duty of love is to listen.-Paul Tillich, theologian

Listen that you may live.-Isaiah

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.-Oliver Wendall Holmes

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sitdown and listen.-Winston Churchill

Listening is a hug you give with your mind.-Barbara Nixon

The silence of prayer is the silence of listening.-Elizabeth O'Connor, Elderly Housing Program

The more faithfully you listen to the voice within you, the better you will hear what issounding outside. Only he who listens can speak.-Dag Hammarskold

People don't listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue iseveryone talking and no one listening.-Stephen Covey

Try to listen carefully that you might not have to speak.-Quaker saying

When you are deeply contemplative, you listen more carefully and understand thingswhich cannot be articulated.-David A. Cooper

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.-Kahlil Gibran

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinkingmore about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we neverlisten when we are eager to speak.-La Rochefoucauld

Every moment I spend training myself to inner listening is like digging a well, deeperand deeper, toward the source of replenishment that never goes dry.

-Joanne Blum, PhD

In music we gain a sense of rhythm through the absence of sound. A similar processoccurs in communication between two people.-Sheldon Roth

He who speaks does not know, he who knows does not speak.-Anonymous

Listening is the ultimate antidote for healing hurting hearts.-Lyman K. Steil

I stop and taste my words before I let them pass my teeth.-Anonymous

We need silence to be able to touch souls.-Mother Theresa

Listen as though your life depended on it. It does.-The Art of Pilgrimage

Listening - the language of love for everyone.-Anonymous

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.-Izaak Walton

There's a guidance for each of us. and by lowly listening we shall hear the right words.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people neverlisten.-Ernest Hemingway

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand theother fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work outthe differences.-Harry S Truman

You don't learn when you're talking.-Watts Wacker, CEO, FirstMatter

When two people are at one in their inmost hearts, They shatter the strength of iron orbronze. And when two people understand each other in their inmost hearts, Their wordsare sweet and strong, like the fragrance of orchids.-I Ching

One friend, one person who is truly understanding, who takes the trouble to listen to usas we consider our problem, can change our whole outlook on the world.-Dr. Elton Mayo

I started young but at every turn, listening provided a foundation for my leadership. I cansay categorically that all the really excellent leaders I have known were, in my view,excellent listeners.-Joe Shuster, Founder & CEO, Teltech

I learned early on that there is a great magic in letting people 'hear their own voice.'When it's accomplished, it completes the communication magic and lubricates thebonding relationship.-Bob Danzig, former CEO of Hearst Publishing Company.

When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learnsomething.-Jared Sparks

You can't fake listening. It shows.-Raquel Welch, actress

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joysof others.-Andre Gide

A conductor's authority rests on two things: the orchestra's confidence in theconductor's insightful knowledge of the whole score, and the orchestra's faith in theconductor's good heart, which seeks to inspire everyone to make music that isexcellent, generous and sincere. Old-school conductors liked to hold the lead in theirhands at all times. I do not. Sometimes I lead. Other times, I'll say Violas, I'm giving youthe lead. Listen to one another, and find your way with this phrase.' I'm not trying to drillpeople, military style, to play music exactly together. I'm trying to encourage them toplay as one, which is a different thing. I'm guiding the performance, but I'm aware thatthey're executing it. It's their sinews, their heartstrings. I'm there to help them do it in away that is convincing and natural for them but also a part of the larger design. Myapproach is to be in tune with the people with whom I'm working. If I'm conducting anensemble for the first time, I will relate what it is I want them to do to the great thingsthey've already done. If I'm conducting my own orchestra, I can see in the musiciansbodies and faces how they're feeling that day, and it becomes very clear who may need

encouragement and who may need cautioning. The objectivity and perspective I haveas the only person who is just listening is a powerful thing. I try to use this perspective tohelp the ensemble reach its goals.-Michael Tilson Thomas, Music Director, San Francisco Symphony.

One must not be afraid of a little silence. Some find silence awkward or oppressive, buta relaxed approach to dialogue will include the welcoming of some silence. It is often adevastating question to ask oneself - but it is sometimes important to ask it - 'In sayingwhat I have in mind will I really improve on the silence?'-Robert Greenleaf. Servant Leadership

The biggest distractions are those that reside in the available space in your mind, whichallow you to do other things while you are listening.-W. Myron Hendry, Sr. Vice President, Safeco Insurance.

Listening is the act of acknowledging the unique value of the thoughts and opinions ofothers.-Bill Kroll

True listening is more of a focused action rather than a random movement.-Dr. Jeff Carter

Listening and leadership are inseparable.-Tom Moran

Listening is where love begins: listening to OURSELVES and then to our NEIGHBORS.-Fred Rogers

It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much.-Yogi Berra

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.-Fran Lebowitz, writer

Of course everything has been said that needs to be said - but since no one waslistening it has to be said again.-Anonymous

Being listened to is so close to being loved, that most people can't tell the difference.-David Augsburger

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.-Martin Tupper

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would have preferredto talk.-Doug Larson

Listen before you leap and weep.-Lyman K. Steil

How well we communicate is determined not by how wellwe say things but by how wellwe are understood.-Andy Grove, CEO, Intel Corporation

Outstanding listening leaders understand that true wisdom begins with the questions weask. Like Albert Einstein, intelligent people ask great questions. Moreover, the bestquestions are the questions we create and ponder for ourselves; especially thequestions that prepare us for difficult and challenging times.-George Knuteson President of Whisper GLIDE Swing Company

Successful communication transforms your thoughts, will, and desire into action. Itmoves people. It transforms the thoughts, will and desires of others. What better wordfor this process than magic?-Jack Griffin, author from How to Say it at Work

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thyjudgment.-Shakespeare, Hamlet

When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting.-Jean Renoir

An effective leader is very good at listening. And it's difficult to listen when you aretalking-John Wooden

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindnessfrom the unkind-Kahlil Gibran

The most basic of all human needs is to understand and to be understood-Dr. Ralph G. Nichols

We need to enhance listening in every corner and quarter of society-Dr. Ralph G. Nichols

The most important thing in communication is to hear what is not being said.

-Dr. Peter Drucker

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.-Jimi Hendrix

To improve communications, work not on the utter, but the recipient.-Dr. Peter Drucker

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of; we have a special face for each friend..The key is to match the face of others at their level.-Oliver Wendell Holmes

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.-Benjamin Franklin

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue-Izaak Walton

In a democracy, a man who does not listen cannot lead.-David S. Broder

We should wish not to listen long as to listen well.-Benjamin Franklin

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people, thanyou can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.-Dale Carnegie

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.-Thomas C. Haliburton, Canadian author

When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn andmend their ideas, they begin to live like civilized men.-Walter Lippmann

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention-Richard Moss

I'm still learning about music. The best way to learn is to listen to the audience. Whenyou listen to the audience, they will tell you what they like. I wish these big corporations,instead of telling the audience what they should have, would listen.-Tony Bennett Double Grammy Winner

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

-Diane Sawyer

We are going through a time when the whole world lacks for leadership and thatleadership is suffering because most people don't listen enough. When you talk, youonly say what you already know. You only learn when you listen.-John Whitehead, Deputy Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan, andChairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Project.

Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, butwe don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach or sound wise. Wejust have to be willing to sit there and listen.-Margaret J. Wheatley

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I donot know.-Andre Maurois, author

Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because mostpeople do not realize this or they are not willing to do the work that they do not listenwell.-F. Scott Peck, Author

I emphasize listening. We strive to hear what other people want us to hear, even thoughthey don't always come out and say it directly.-Robert W. Galvin, Chairman, Motorola Co.

If I'm talking to someone in a crowded room, I try to make this person feel as thoughwe're the only ones present. I shut out everything else. I look directly at the person.Even if a gorilla were to walk into the room, I probably wouldn't notice it.-Mary Kay Ash

Listen with your heart and love will find it's way to you.-Rick Bommelje

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.-Winifred Holtby

It is not the content of the exchange that is central but the experience of being taken inand heard, which not only confirms the legitimacy of one's looking at the world but thenallows one to begin letting go of some defensiveness because the experience ofaffirmation increases one's capacity to affirm others.-Suresh Srivasta and Frank Barrett, Professors, Case Western Reserve University

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can havesome conversation.-Judith Martin, ('Miss Manners,')

It is not the content of the exchange that is central but the experience of being taken inand heard, which not only confirms the legitimacy of one's looking at the world but thenallows one to begin letting go of some defensiveness because the experience ofaffirmation increases one's capacity to affirm others.-Suresh Srivasta and Frank Barrett, Professors, Case Western Reserve University

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can havesome conversation.-Judith Martin, (Miss Manners,)

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.-G.K. Chesterton, English writer

It takes a great man to make a great listener-Arthur Helps

Never miss a good chance to shut up-Scott Beache's grandfather

A closed mouth gathers no feet-Unknown

The fool speaks, the wise man listens-African proverb

I believe one of the requirements of good leadership is the ability to listen - really listen -to those in your organization. An effective leader is very good at listening, and it'sdifficult to listen when you are talking.-John Wooden, Basketball Coach, UCLA

In my opinion. being an effective leader requires being an effective listener. The mostproductive leaders are usually those who are consistently willing to listen and learn.-John Wooden, Basketball Coach, UCLA

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing.If you'rewilling to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.-Dr. Richard K. Bommelje

An official who must listen to the pleas of his clients should listen patiently and withoutrancor because a petitioner wants attention to what he says even more than the

accomplishing of that for which he came. Not all one pleads for can be granted, but agood hearing soothes the heart.-4,000 year old Egyptian inscription

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinkingabout myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is goingto say.-Abraham Lincoln

Thinking Flexibly

_I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened of old ones.-John Cage

It's an ill plan that cannot be changed.-Latin proverb

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.-Hugh Prather

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it's the only one you've got.-Alain (Emile August Chartier)

It's a mighty poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.-Andrew Jackson

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

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds areincompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.-Everett McKinley Dirksen

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

They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change themyourself.-Andy Warhol

Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't and dead men can't.

-John H. Patterson

Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.-Aldous Huxley

Unless you change how you are, you'll always have what you've got.-Jim Rohn, Speaker and Author

Change your thoughts and you change your world.-Norman Vincent Peale

Continuing to cling to the patterns you know inhibits your ability to discover what youdon't know.-Eric Allenbaugh

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

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.-Christina Baldwin

The dust of exploded beliefs may make a fine sunset.-Geoffrey Madan

There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.-William Shakespeare King Lear

No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. We must learnto see the world anew.-Albert Einstein

Team members need to be able to suspend disbelief, think the unthinkable, and letintuition and premonitions flow freely. Therefore, a necessary skill in team members istolerance for ambiguity.-Kees van der Heijden

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty, notknowing what comes next.-Ursula K. Leguin

I desire that there be as many different persons in the world as possible; I would haveeach one be very careful to find out and preserve his own way.-Henry David Thoreau

Change is fun and exciting and, like a haircut, looks funny at first; but once you get usedto it, it's great.-Anne Blair

New frameworks are like climbing a mountain--the larger view encompasses rather thanrejects the earlier, more restricted view.-Albert Einstein

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.-Kenny Rogers

If you find a good solution and become attached to it the solution may become your nextproblem.-Dr. Robert Anthony

Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself.-Leo Tolstoy.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind, and proving that there is no needto do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof.-John Kenneth Galbraith

Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed withbeing right?-Wayne W. Dyer

Our destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.-Henry Miller

Once people learn something, they're reluctant to let it go-Robert Easton

If you never change your mind, why have one?-Edward deBono

Only in growth, reform and change... paradoxically enough... is true security to befound.-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.-Claude Bernard

Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

-John Finley

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

When you're through changing, you're through.-Bruce Barton

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.-John Powell

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mereaspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.-Anna Jameson

Have confidence in your decisions. Make them expeditiously, and stay with them aslong as you believe you are correct no matter what others say. However, when youconclude you were in error, do not hesitate to announce the error publicly and changecourse.-Edward J. Koch

Soften the rigidities within yourself and the universe will give you strength and vigor.-Arabic Proverb

You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.-Edgar F. Magnin

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.-H. Fred Ale.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind atthe same time and still retain the ability to function.-F. Scott Fitzgerald

Of all forms of mental activity, the most difficult to induce even in the minds of theyoung, who may be presumed not to have lost their flexibility, is the art of handling thesame bundle of data as before, but placing them in a new system of relations with oneanother by giving them a different framework, all of which virtually means putting on adifferent kind of thinking-cap for the moment. It is easy to teach anybody a new fact...butit needs light from heaven above to enable a teacher to break the old framework inwhich the student is accustomed to seeing.-Arthur Koestler

Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all dependsupon how one adjusts oneself to life.-Morarji Desai

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourselfto meet them.-Phyllis Bottome

When one door is shut, another one opens.-Miguel de Cervantes

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.-Confucius

It's never too late -- in fiction or in life -- to revise.-Nancy Thayer

We know that uncertainty creates anxiety and sometimes desperate attempts to findsomething to believe in. Uncertainty engenders real opportunity as well as misleadingchoices, great leaders as well as false messiahs, and new ways of understanding theworld alongside hollow maxims and deceptive promises. Understandably, we seekguides and guideposts to ease the anxiety of the journey. But we also need to dependon our own insights and imagination to cultivate, from our own experience, a way tomove forward.-Alan Briskin

Change cannot be avoided. Change provides the opportunity for innovation. It gives youthe chance to demonstrate your creativity.--Keshavan Nair, Author and Professor

My opinion is a view I hold until . . . well, until I find something that changes it.-Luigi Pirandello

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.-W. Edwards Deming

The art of life lies in constant readjustment to our surroundings.-Okakura Kakuzo

It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep themclean.-Luther Burbank

Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to bethinking tomorrow.-Glen Beaman

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.-Bertold Brecht

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you thinkabout it-Mary Engelbreit

You had better be ready to change your mind when needed.-Henry B. Wilson

If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don'tworry it'll change.-John A. Simone, Sr.

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fastas they shall appear to be new views.-Abraham Lincoln

It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.-Nancy Thayer

No one can make you change. No one can stop you from changing. No one reallyknows how you must change. Not even you. Not until you start.-Dr. David Viscott, Author and Psychologist

Our only security is our ability to change.-John Lilly

A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.-Spanish Proverb

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.-James Russell Lowell

I bend but do not break.-Jean de la Fountaine

Flexibility and adaptability do not happen just by reacting fast to new information. Theyarise from mental and emotional balance, the lack of attachment to specific outcomes,and putting care for self and others as a prime operating principle. Flexible attitudes

build flexible physiology. Flexible physiology means more resilience in times ofchallenge or strain. Staying open--emotionally--insures internal flexibility.-Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer From Chaos to Coherence

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in societytoday No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not onlythe world as it is, but the world as it will be.-Isaac Asimov

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.-Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, French Author

Think in terms of what's good for the other person and success will seek you out.-Mary Kay Ash, Entrepreneur

Any plan is bad which is not susceptible to change.-Bartolommeo de San Concordio, Painter and Writer

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution whichrejects progress is the cemetery.-Harold Wilson

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make of it.-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

A truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can equally embrace great things andsmall.-Samuel Johnson

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?-Robert Anthony, Author

I dwell in possibility.-Emily Dickinson

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us,which is what they are meant to do.-Mother Maribel

Embrace change. It's going to happen whether you like it or not.-Odette Pollar, speaker and author

Ensure that both plan and dispositions are flexible, adaptable to circumstances. Yourplan should foresee and provide for a next step in case of success or failure.

-B. H. Liddell Hart, military strategist

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will youhave a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.-Nolan Ryan, Hall of Fame Baseball player

Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.--Charles M. Schulz, Creator of Peanuts

Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to newknowledge.-Gordon W. Allport

Remember, the reverse side also has a reverse side.-Japanese Proverb

A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition-Jaun Ramon Jimenez

The absurd man is he who never changes.-Auguste Barthelemy

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company intototal confusion for a while.-Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric

If you don't take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat.-Winston Churchill

When it comes to changes, people like only those they make themselves.-French Proverb

A closed mind is a dying mind.-Edna Ferber

When someone tells me there is only one way to do things, it always lights a fire undermy butt. My instinct is, 'I'm going to prove you wrong.'-Picabo Street, Olympic gold medalist

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.-Marcel Proust

The most successful people are those who are good at Plan B.-James Yorke, mathematics and physics professor

Conflict is best seen as an opportunity to understand our differences, since that's whenconflict usually arises; when we see something differently.-Tony Dungy, retired football coach, author Uncommon

Thinking About Thinking

_I thank the Lord for the brain He put in my head. Occasionally, I love to just stand toone side and watch how it works.-Richard Bolles

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought, that is being educated.-Edith Hamilton

To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.-Bertrand Russell

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.-Mary Kay Ash

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

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.-Napoleon

To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know isdisease.-Lao Tsu

Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way ofthinking.-Grenville Kleiser

Everything we do consciously remains for us.-Gurdjieff and Ouspinsky

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself-Plato

The whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind so that Ican survey it at a glance. Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but Ihear them, as it were, all at once. What delight this is I cannot tell!-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Human thought is a process by which human ends are ultimately answered.-Daniel Webster

Keep in mind always the present your are constructing. It should be the future you want.-Alice Walker

If the head is ready, the body will follow.-Alexander Popov

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact they do so.-Bertrand Russell

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.-Robert H. Schuller

I really lack the words to compliment myself today.-Alberto Tomba

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words; they become actions.Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character.Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.-Frank Outlaw

Creativity, my students learn, is as natural a function of the mind as breathing ordigestion are natural functions of the body.-John Kao

I believe everybody is creative, and everybody is talented. I just don't think thateverybody is disciplined. I think that's a rare commodity.-Al Hirschfield

If I look confused it's because I'm thinking.-Samuel Goldwyn

Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline andorder are relieved with some play and some pure foolishness.-May Sarton

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

-Sarah J. Hale

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes oninside.-Wayne Dyer

If you had a friend who talked to you, like you sometimes talk to yourself, would youcontinue to hang around with that person?-Rob Bremer

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.-Edmund Burke

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.-Georg C. Lichtenberg

This moment deserves your full attention, for it will not pass your way again.-Dan Millman

Optimism is an intellectual choice.-Diana Schneider

He who knows others is wise; / He knows himself is enlightened.-Lao-Tzu

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.-John Powell

When every physical and mental resources is focused-one's power to solve a problemmultiplies tremendously.-Norman Vincent Peale

To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what givesmeaning to your life.-Paula Brownlee

Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, inventconcepts and tolerate ambiguity.-Edward de Bono

If your struggle with the conflicting parts of yourself is conscious, you are able to chooseconsciously the response that will create the karma that you desire. You will be able tobring to bear upon your decision an awareness of what lies behind each choice, and theconsequences of each choice, and choose accordingly. When you enter into your

decision-making dynamic consciously, you insert your will consciously into the creativecycle through which your soul evolves, and you enter consciously into your ownevolution.-Gary Zukav

Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself.-Audrey Giorgi

The brain's capacity and desire to make or elicit patterns of meaning is one of the keysof brain-based learning. We never really understand something until we can create amodel or metaphor derived from our unique personal world. Learning and memory areinfluenced by the sets, intentions and plans generated in the neocortex of the brain aswell as by the information received from the immediate environment and from internalstates, drives, and muscular responses. The reality we perceive, feel, see and hear isinfluenced by the constructive processes of the brain as well as by the cues thatimpinge upon it.-Merlin C. Wittrock

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A man is what he thinks about all day long.---Ralph Waldo Emerson

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate hislife by conscious endeavor.-Henry David Thoreau

Your mind is a very small, yet potent part of you. Control it, focus it and nourish it withpositive thoughts that resonate with your authentic self.---Brian Koslow

I've reached the moment where the movement of my thought interests me more thanthe thought itself.-Pablo Picasso

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.-Pablo Picasso

It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.-Eugene Ionesco

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order tohave things occur to you, to let your mind think.

-Mortimer Adler, educator

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.-James Russell Lowell

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We havecreated a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.-Albert Einstein

Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking atthe curb, lying on the grass or sitting on the stoop and staring at the tedious blue of thesummer sky. I don't believe you can write poetry, or compose music, or become anactor without downtime, and plenty of it, a hiatus that passes for boredom but is reallythe quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.-Anna Quindlen, Pulitzer Prize winning writer

They can because they think they can.-Virgil

If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination you never getthere. You have to start someplace.-Robert Duvall, actor

If you do not ask yourself what it is you know, you will go on listening to others andchange will not come because you will not hear your own truth.-Saint Bartholomew

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.-Albert Camus

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we createdthem.-Albert Einstein, Physicist

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.--Knute Rockne, Football Coach

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can youreceive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.-Barbara De Angelis, author

The voice of intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.-Sigmund Freud

People don't win because they're physically stronger. It's because they're strongerbetween the ears.-Alexandra Shaffer, Olympic Alpine skier

There is one art of which every man should be master: the art of reflection.-Samuel T. Coleridge

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.-Bill Russell, basketball legend

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutelynecessary.-Ray Knight, baseball player

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

The more aware you are of your feelings, the easier it will be to take charge of yourdestiny and attract the life of your dreams.-Peggy McColl, author of Your Destiny Switch

Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one'sbody and train one's mind.-Anil Ambani Indian businessman

A goal is created three times. First as a mental picture. Second, when written down toadd clarity and dimension. And third, when you take action towards its achievement.-- Gary Ryan Blair, The Goals Guy

Striving For Accuracy

_Measure a thousand times and cut once.-Turkish Proverb

Good is not good, where better is expected.-Thomas Fuller

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day today, and you are a success.

-William J. H. Boetcker

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

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it shouldhave.-Leonardo da Vinci

Only the mediocre are always at their best.-Jean Giraudoux

On course doesn't mean perfect. On course means that even when things don't goperfectly - you are still going in the right direction.-Charles Garfield

Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.-Ben Hogan, Golfer

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary mayspeak.-Hans Hoffman

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing itbetter.-John Updike

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.-H. H. Munro (Saki)

I don't want to get into anything that would only be half-way. If we're going to commit toit, then we're going to commit to it all the way.-Al Unser, Jr., Racecar driver

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.-Wallace Stevens

If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done aswell as or better than anyone else.-William Feather

It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long aslife.-Queen Christina, of Sweden

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing anothermistake.-Confucius

If you aren't going all the way; why go at all?-Joe Namath

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knowswhere he is going.-Napoleon Hill

The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurements anewevery time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements andexpected them to fit me.-George Bernard Shaw

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.-Kenny Rogers

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

It's never crowded along the extra mile.-Dr. Wayne Dyer

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; longstretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given theopportunity to perform at our best.-Michael Johnson, (200 and 400 meter world record holder)

The quality of an individual is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.-Ray Kroc

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about beingbetter than you were the day before.-Steve Young, Football Player

A problem is your chance to do your best.-Duke Ellington

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration.-Jack Nicklaus

I've always tried to go a step past wherever other people expected me to end up.-Beverly Sills

The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing athing exactly right.-Edward Simmons

There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed but . . . insuccessful lives it is never wholly lacking.-Bliss Carmen

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.-George Hebert

Other people may not have had high expectations for me...but I had high expectationsfor myself.-Shannon Miller, Olympic Gymnast

He who stops being better stops being good.-Oliver Cromwell

You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.-Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.-Albert Einstein

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.-Henry Ford

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels theattraction of earth.-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.-Harriet Braiker

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.-Cicero

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

-Harriet Braiker

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.-Salvador Dali

Be true to the best you know.This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot domore.-Jean Paul Richter, German Novelist

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.-Steve Prefontaine

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the bestone knows.-John Farrar

The noblest search is the search for excellence.-Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than tosomething badly.-Mark McCormack

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.-Wallace Stevens

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to dosomething well is to enjoy it.-Pearl Buck

Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come.-Perry Paxton

My motto was to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or havingtrouble off the field, the only thing to do was to keep swinging.-Hank Aaron

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did tentimes more work.-George Bernard Shaw

If a man is called a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelopainted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He shouldsweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and Earth will pause to say, Herelived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts.-Nikki Giovanni, poet

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.-George Bernard Shaw

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Neverexcuse yourself.-Henry Ward Beecher

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

Simplify the task. Continually look for faster, better, easier ways to get the job done.-Brian Tracy, speaker and author

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doingless-than-excellent work.-Thomas Watson, IBM founder

It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity.-George Matthew Adams, writer

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have notgot it.-George Bernard Shaw

A brand new mediocrity is thought more of than accustomed excellence.-Baltasar Grecian

High expectations are the key to everything.-Sam Walton, Wal-Mart founder

Always be prepared to win. That's what I focus on. Keep working toward perfection.

-Willie Davis, Football Hall of Fame member

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.-Harriet Braiker, psychologist and writer

It is better to aim at perfection and miss it than to aim at imperfection and hit it.-Thomas Watson, Sr. IBM.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellenceis expected.-Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer

Be a yardstick of quality.Some people aren't used to an environment where excellenceis expected.-Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the partthat tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough -- that we should try again.-Julia Cameron, American teacher and writer

Questioning and Posing Problems

_You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man iswise by his questions.-Naguib Mahfouz (Nobel Prize Winner)

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.-Voltaire

Nothing shapes our journey through life so much as the questions we ask.-Greg Levoy

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.-Claude Levi-Strauss, businessman

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

Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.-Roger Lewin

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.-Alan Saporta

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with themost useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.-Eleanor Roosevelt

Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.-Albert Einstein

Bromidic though it may sound, some questions don't have answers, which is a terriblydifficult lesson to learn.-Katherine Graham

The important thing is to not stop questioning.-Albert Einstein

Find a way to engage the heart in the problem and you are likely to see the child risenaturally to his own optimal levels of uncertainty, risk and relevance.-Richard Jones

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questionsthemselves... Do not now seek the answers which cannot be given you because youwould not be able to live them and the point is to live everything. Live the questionsnow. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day intothe answer.-Rainer Maria Rilke

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin barefoot irreverence to theirstudies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.-Jacob Bronowski

Here are the three great questions which in life we have over and over again to answer:Is it right or wrong? Is it true or false? Is it beautiful or ugly? Our education ought to helpus to answer these questions.-John Lubbock

A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than aneminent degree of curiosity.-Samuel Johnson

It is in the formulation of the problem that individuality is expressed, that creativity isstimulated, that nuances and subtleties are discovered.-Herbert Thelen

The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may bemerely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. To raise new questions, newpossibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination andmarks real advances.-Albert Einstein

When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joyand enthusiasm, miracles can happen.-Arland Gilbert

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking - by all means ask!-W. Clement Stone

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. Ifthey see you are afraid of them, they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look themsquarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.-Orison Swett Marden

If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become yournext problem.-Dr. Robert Anthony

There is no education like adversity.-Benjamin Disraeli

Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as aresult, they get better answers.-Anthony Robbins

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.-Kahlil Gabran

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think itis more like being a sprinter; longstretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given theopportunity to perform at our best.-Michael Johnson, 200 and 400 meter world record holder

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.-Samuel Johnson

A problem is your chance to do your best.-Duke Ellington

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, butwhether it is the same problem you had last year.-John Foster Dulles

When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery.-Lord Kelvin

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.-Jean-Baptiste Moliere

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

It's not the answers that enlighten us, but the questions.-Descouvertes

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.-Chinese proverb

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.-Suzanne Langer

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.-Henry Kaiser

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with themost useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.-Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

If you spend more time asking appropriate questions rather than giving answers oropinions, your listening skills will increase.-Brian Koslow

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.-William Arthur Ward

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, andattempting a task he cannot achieve.-Oliver Wendell Holmes

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it.-Sudie Back

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why.

-Bernard Baruch

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.-Samuel Johnson

Good questions outrank easy answers.-Paul A. Samuelson

Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question...awareness of theproblem outlives all solutions. The answers are questions in disguise, every new answergiving rise to new questions.-Abraham J. Heschel

Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own msolution.-Edward Somers

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

When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.-Anthony J. D'Angelo

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.-G. K. Chesterton

A problem well stated is a problem half solved.-Charles Kettering

The vast majority of problems, decisions and situations which confront us daily arethose which do not have just one answer. Several solutions are usually possible. Logicsuggests that if one can mentally generate many possible solutions, the more likely it isthat an optimum solution will be reached. This is a creative process - the formation ofnew and useful relationships.-Richard E. Manelis

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

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with themost useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.-Eleanor Roosevelt

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.-Nancy Willard

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

When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.-Anthony J. D'Angelo

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reasons for existing.One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life,of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries to comprehend a little ofthis mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.-Edmund Burke

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.-Ellen Parr

It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, butalso by those we are still asking.-Freda Adler

The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.-John A. Simone, Jr.

If you don't ask, you don't get.-Mahatma Gandhi

Why and How are words so important that they cannot be too often used.-Napoleon

Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feedopportunities and starve problems.-Stephen Covey

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

The world is but a school of inquiry.-Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, essayist

He who has a why can bear almost any how.-Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher

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

Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this?What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this andhave fun doing it?-Charles Connolly, psychologist

I have no special gift. I am only passionately curious.-Albert Einstein

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve theproblem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.-Richard Buckminster Fuller

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise andthinking that having problems is a problem.-Theodore Rubin

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.-Alan Saporta

The real problem is what to do with the problem-solver after the problems are solved.-Gay Talese

Good questions outrank easy answers.--Paul A. Samuelson, Nobel Laureate in Economics

There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet smallenough to solve.-Mike Leavitt, former Governor of Utah

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

Problems are the price you pay for progress.-Branch Rickey, Baseball manager and executive

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asinsoluble problems.-John W. Gardner

Be curious always! Knowledge will not acquire you - you must acquire it.-Sudie Back, psychologist

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face withanother problem.-Martin Luther King Jr.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.-Voltaire

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't workout, that's when I've really learned.-Carol Burnett, Actress, comedienne

Outstanding listening leaders understand that true wisdom begins with the questions weask. Like Albert Einstein, intelligent people ask great questions. Moreover, the bestquestions are the questions we create and ponder for ourselves; especially thequestions that prepare us for difficult and challenging times.-George Knuteson President of WhisperGLIDE Swing Company

Ultimately, we are seeking a better understanding of what is means to be human. In thisquest, progress is not made by finding the 'right,' answers, but by asking meaningfulquestions.-Terry Winograd & Fernando Flores

Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking. .Asking the right questionmay be the most important part of thinking.-Edward de Bono

We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned by those around us.-Margaret Mead

There are questions which illuminate, and there are those that destroy. I was alwaystaught to ask the first kind.-Isaac Isador Rabi, Nobel prize-wining physicist.

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.-Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist, shipbuilder

There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receiveno answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was created,why was it not created sooner?-Samuel Johnson

It is easier to judge a person's mental capacity by his questions than by his answers-Le Duc de Levis

To question a wise man is the beginning of wisdom-German Proverb

'Tis not every question that deserves an answer-Thomas Fuller

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

I can evade questions without help; what I need is answers-John F. Kennedy

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a creative mind to spot wrongquestions-Anthony Jay

Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.-Anthony Robbin

Good questions, ones that we care about and want to answer, call us outward and toeach others. They are an invitation to explore, to venture out, to risk, to listen, toabandon our positions. Good questions help us become both curious and uncertain,and this is always the road that opens us to the surprise of new insight.-Margaret Wheatley, Forward of The World Cafe

You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.-John J. Plomp, author

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.-Dorothy Parker, writer and poet

We only think we are confronted with a problem.-John Dewey

There are no foolish questions, and no man really becomes a fool until he stops askingquestions.-Charles Steinmetz, electrical engineer

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolubleproblems.-Lee Iacocca, American industrialist

It is more important to ask one good question than to settle for easy questions withobvious answers.-Beverly Nance

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morningafter the committee of sleep has worked on it.-John Steinbeck

The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally new development.-Alfred North Whitehead

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve otherproblems.-Rene Descartes

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.-Theodor Dr. Seuss Geise

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the partthat tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.-Julia Cameron, American teacher and writer

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morningafter the committee of sleep has worked on it.-John Steinbeck

The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally new development.-Alfred North Whitehead

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.-Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist

Successful leaders are great askers-Warren Bennis

Fear paralyzes; curiosity empowers. Be more interested than afraid.-Patricia Alexander, American educational psychologist

Applying Past Knowledge to New Situations

_We do not learn from our experiences; we learn by reflecting on our experiences.

-John Dewey

If the process don't transfer, they cannot even be called thinking. They can be calledlearning, memory, or habit, but not thinking. The purpose of a course on thinking is toenhance student's abilities to face new challenges and to attack novel problemsconfidently, rationally and productively.-Marilyn J. Adams

The work will teach you how to do it.-Estonian proverb

You are today where your thoughts have brought you, you will be tomorrow where yourthoughts take you.-James Allen, author

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he whonever made a mistake never made a discovery.-Samuel Smiles

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.-Jean Toomer

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the morefit for its prime function of looking forward.-Margaret Fairless Barber

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. Thatquality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life.-Chris Evert

Learning is the ability to make sense out of something you observe based on your pastexperience and being able to take that observations and associate it with meaning.-Ruth and Art Winter.

I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience.-Thomas A. Edison

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.-William Saroyan

People fall forward to success.-Mary Kay Ash

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.-Aldous Huxley

The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake isour lack of imagination.-Julian Simon

If I have learnt anything it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full ofbeauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will everreturn.-Margot Fonteym

It is only after a fair portion of one's life that one really knows what are the things thatmatter, the things that will remain until the end.-Esther Meynell

Those who succeed and do not push on to greater failure are the spiritual middle-classers.-Eugene O'Neill

Once people learn something, they're reluctant to let it go-Robert Easton

The top of the hill is but the bottom of another mountain.-Ankit Jamwal

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrowfield.-Niels Bohr

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant,are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they'renecessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.-Richard David Bach

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.-Italo Svevo

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself,'I have failedthree times,'and what happens when he says, 'I'm a failure.'-S. I. Hayakawa

I got a fortune cookie that said, 'To remember is to understand.'I have never forgotten it.A good judge remembers what it was like to be a lawyer A good editor remembersbeing a writer. A good parent remembers what it was like to be a child.-Anna Quindlen

As important as your past is related to your current performance, it is not nearly asimportant as how you see your future.-Denis Waitley

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, butwhether it is the same problem you had last year.-John Foster Dulles

Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allowwhat is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen,then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.-E. L. Konigsburg,

Everything we do seeds the future. No action is an empty one.-Joan Chittister

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a lifespent doing nothing.-George Bernard Shaw

It is necessary for us to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough tomake them all yourself.-Hyman Rickover

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.-Sophia Loren

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-Bishop W. C. Magee

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning fromfailure.-Colin Powell

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.-Thomas Edison

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly livedare the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

-Henry Drummond

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.-Marilyn Ferguson

Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.-Plato

Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.-Eleanor Roosevelt

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindnessfrom the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.-Kahlil Gibran

It is from the fond memories of our past that we gather courage to face the future.-Elizabeth Andrews

The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.-L. Thomas Holdcroft

Look back to learn how to look forward.-Joe Girard

Life can be real rough . . . you can either learn from your problems, or keep repeatingthem over and over.-Marie Osmond

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happentomorrow, I look back.-Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr,

Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.-Soren Kierkegaard

What I've been doing in practice will carry over into the game.-Randall Cunningham, Professional Football Player

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is notlearning from experience.-Archibald McLeish

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience.-Elbert Hubbard

The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works.-William Strong

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led tothe present.-Adlai E. Stevenson,

No amount of sophistication is going to allay the fact that all your knowledge is aboutthe past and all your decisions are about the future.-Ian E. Wilson

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.-Cicero

What you know is just a point of departure. So let's move!-Keorapetse Kgositsile, South African Poet

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase ofknowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.-John Locke

There is glory in a great mistake-Nathalia Crane, Writer and Poet

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learnfrom the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.-Wordsworth

Failures are but mileposts on the road to success.-Italian Proverb

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.-Albert Einstein

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.-James Joyce

Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best.-Spanish Proverb

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.-Chinese Proverb

Think about the impact of today's decisions, for tomorrow is much longer than today.-Don Raiff, Economist

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.--Oscar Wilde

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It'sperfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned somethingfrom yesterday.-John Wayne

I don't avoid pain by not remembering something; I try to remember.... Memory isempowering, and it's what gives you your sense of continuity in the world.-Melinda W. Popham

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.-Auguste Rodin

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them allyourself.-Alfred Sheinwold

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when youread the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.-Pete Seeger

Education is knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it's knowinghow to use the information you get.-William Feather, Author and Publisher

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.-Charles J. Givens, Businessman and Author

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.-John Powell

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.-Phyllis Theroux

Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster.-Weston H. Agor

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, butwhether it's the same problem you had last year.

-John Foster Dulles

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.-Winston Churchill

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts.-Nikki Giovanni, poet

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where yourthoughts take you.-James Allen, author

There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpectedoutcomes.-Buckminster Fuller

A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself; indeed, heprogresses in all things by making a fool of himself.-George Bernard Shaw, playwright

What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible forhelping to produce the major achievement of your life.-Srully D. Blotnick

Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool, the essence of humanintelligence; to forge links; to go beyond the given; to see patterns, relationships,context.-Marilyn Ferguson

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't workout, that's when I've really learned.-Carol Burnett, actress

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.-Truman Capote

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is whatis called experience.-Denis Waitley, author and speaker

What we know is far less important than what we use.-Kevin Eikenberry

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Doubleyour rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all.You can be discouraged by failure-or you can learn from it. So go ahead and makemistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. Onthe far side of failure.-Thomas J. Watson, founder of IBM

Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.-Dan McKinnon, Folk Singer

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get verylittle wisdom from success, you know.-William Saroyan

You're going to make mistakes in life. It's what you do after the mistakes that counts.-Brandi Chastain, soccer star

Failure isn't a crime. Failure to learn from failure is the crime.-Walter Wriston,, former chairman of Citicorp

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of allthe lessons that history has to teach-. Aldous Huxley

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has ledus to the present.-. Adlai Stevenson

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.-G. K. Chesterton

You've always got to be aware of why you don't win, otherwise you'll keep losing. Everymistake is a learning experience and, hopefully, you won't make the same mistakeagain.-Layne Beachley

It is a poor sort of memory that only works backwards-Lewis Carroll

God gave us memory that we might have roses in December-James Barrie

Every man's memory is his private literature.-Aldous Huxley

Memory performs the impossible for man; holds together past and present, givescontinuity and dignity to human life.-Mark Van Doren

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.-Carl Jung

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.-George Santayhana

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.-Euripides

Miss not the discourse of the elders: for they also learned of their fathers, and of themthou shalt learn understanding, and to give answer as need requireth.-Ecclesiastes 8:9

I've failed over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.-Michael Jordan, basketball legend

By the time you're 80 years old you've learned everything. You only have to rememberit.-George Burns

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.-Pearl Buck, Nobel laureate in Literature

Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced.-Barbara Tuchman, historian and writer

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself nowiser than before.-Kurt Vonnegut, novelist and satirist

Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.-Oscar Wilde

I've learned that failure preceded success, and the right decisions are an extension ofthe wrong ones.-Alex Spanos, founder of A.G. Spanos Cos.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound. Rebuild thoseplans and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

-Napoleon Hill, author

The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but thetwilight of the dawn.-H. G. Wells

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where yourthoughts take you.-James Allen

I've failed over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.-Michael Jordan

I now know that I learn by solving problems as they arise. Rarely do we learn significantlessons, or significantly improve, any other way.-Bob Parsons, Internet entrepreneur

Analyze the past, consider the present and visualize the future.-Thomas Watson Sr. I.B.M.

Focus on the future, but understand the past.-Amy Butte, CFO, New York Stock Exchange

The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather,that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continuallymake a new man of himself.-Wang Yang-Ming, Chinese Philosopher

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fitfor its prime function of looking forward.-Margaret Fairless Barber author

Any experience can be transformed into something of value.-Vash Young, author

Focus on the future, but understand the past.-Amy Butte, CFO, New York Stock Exchange

Thinking and Communicating With Clarity and Precision

_A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense-James Thurber

Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range ofapplicability.-Werner Karl Heisenberg

He who guards his mouth keeps his life, but he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.-Proverbs 13:3

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.-Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book.-Friedrich Nietzsche

If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.-David Belasco

The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.-Ludwig Wittgenstein

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and lightning bug.-Mark Twain

Within the word we find two dimensions - reflection and action. If one is sacrificed evenin part, the other immediately suffers. To speak a true word is to transform the world.-Paulo Freire

I do not so easily think in words.... after being hard at work having arrived at results thatare perfectly clear... I have to translate my thoughts in a language that does not runevenly with them.-Francis Galton

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knowswhere he is going.-Napoleon Hill

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?-Albert Einstein

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.-Henri Bergson

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.-Booker T. Washington

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.-Winston Churchill

We sometimes get all the information, but we refuse to get the message.-Cullen Hightower

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.-Michael De Montaigne

There are people who want to be everywhere at once... and they get nowhere-Carl Sandburg

I really lack the words to compliment myself today.-Alberto Tomba

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words; they become actions.Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character.Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.-Frank Outlaw

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.-Sarah J. Hale

Our intention creates our reality.-Wayne Dyer

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes oninside.-Wayne Dyer

What we don't understand we don't possess.-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I think the language is one factor that has prevented us from being able even toconceptualize mind/body processes. Just the fact that we use one kind of intangiblelanguage to describe the mind and another kind of material language to describe thebody--languages that don't even have a way of connecting--prevents us from seeingthat these two kinds of phenomena are actually two manifestations of the sameprocess, neither one more important than the other, and neither causing the other. If we

ca figure out ways to talk that allow us to think about the mind and body as one and thesame, we'd be better off-Margaret Kemeny

All my life I wanted to be somebody. But I see now I should have been more specific.-Jane Wagner

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it, but can describe it only from thevantage point of distance.-Charles A. Lindbergh

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than youpromised and easier than you said.-Jim Rohn

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.-Rudyard Kipling

True eloquence consists of saying all that should be said, and that only.-Francois de La Rochefoucald

To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade,to instruct, to discover, to seduce.-William Safire

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to saysomething.-Plato

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.-Peter Benchley

. . . everything that can be said can be said clearly.-Ludwig Wittgenstein

Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment.-Ira Gassen

It is better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and resolve alldoubt.-Abraham Lincoln

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidenceof the fact.

-George Eliot

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.-Josh Billings

. . . if you cannot say what you have to say in twenty minutes, you should go away andwrite a book about it.-Lord Brabizon

The words you choose to say something are just as important as the decision to speak.-Anon.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what othermen do not say in whole books.-Friedrich Nietzsche

I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not befooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying.-Charles C. Finn

If you just communicate you can get by. But if you skillfully communicate, you can workmiracles.-Jim Rohn, Speaker and Author

Wise men talk because they have something to say, fools talk because they have to saysomething.-Plato

All my life I've wanted to be somebody. But I see now I should have been more specific.-Jane Wagner, Writer and Director

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to knowthe right moment to stop.-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.-Edward Thorndike

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, toleave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.-Benjamin Franklin

Before speaking, consider the interpretation of your words as well as their intent.-Andrew Alden

Be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, thedeeper they burn.-Robert Southey, poet

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one tosee, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.-A.C. Benson, author

The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.-Antisthenes, philosopher

They talk most who have the least to say.-Matthew Prior

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.-Martin Tupper

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but by how wellwe are understood.-Andy Grove, CEO, Intel Corporation

Successful communication transforms your thoughts, will, and desire into action. Itmoves people. It transforms the thoughts, will and desires of others. What better wordfor this process than magic?-Jack Griffin, author from How to Say it at Work

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names-Chinese Proverb

When I use a word, said Humpty Dumpty, in a rather scornful tone, it means just what Ichoose it to mean neither more nor less.-Lewis Carroll

Language is what makes people human, and it is the primary way we have of knowingwho other people are-Janet Malcolm

From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance-Italian Proverb

One never repents of having spoken too little but often of having spoken too much-Philippe de Commynes

I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write betterthan I can.-Ernest Hemingway

It has often been said there's so much to be read, you never can cram all those words inyour head. So the writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore forthe reader who reads. That is why my belief is the briefer the brief is, the greater thesigh of the reader's relief is.-Dr. Seuss aka Theodor Seuss Geisel

Never miss a good chance to shut up.-Will Rogers

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.-Confucius

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.-William Blake

Least said is soon disavowed.-Ambrose Bierce

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.-Charles Caleb Colton

Maximo in minimo-Friedrich Heslderlin

But far more numerous was the Herd of such, Who think too little, and talk too much.-John Dryden, British poet and dramatist

If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation. If fifteen minutes, threedays. If half an hour, two days, and if an hour, I am ready right now.-Woodrow Wilson

I have made this letter long, only because I lacked the time to make it short.-Blaise Pascal, French philosopher

Silence is better than unmeaning words.-Pythagoras

Meaning is not what you start with, but what you end up with.-Peter Elbow

It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' means.-Bill Clinton

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by themeanings we give to situations.-Alfred Adler

Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is goodfor somebody.-Aristotle

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean.-Henry Brooks Adams

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render itvisible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we aregorged with meaning and it is killing us.-Jean Baudrillard

Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize. Yourwords are the greatest power you have. The words you choose and their use establishthe life you experience.-Sonia Croquette

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timedpause.-Mark Twain

Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent yourfeelings.-Patricia Fripp

Gathering Data Through All the Senses

_It is not easy to describe the sea without the mouth.-Kokyu

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and musicwould not exist.-John Dewey

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.-Keanu Reeves

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.-Albert Einstein

How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?-E. M. Forster

Tell me, and I'll forget. Show me, and I may remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.-Native American Proverb

Must we always teach our children with books? Let them look a the stars and themountains above. Let them look at the waters and the trees and flowers on earth. Thenthey will begin to think, and to think is the beginning of a real education.-David Polis

Seeing is different than being told.-Proverb from Kenya

By pushing the right biological buttons in the brain, scientists are finding they can makethe future brighter for many children whose development otherwise would have beenstunted...... How the buttons work is perhaps the most amazing thing of all. The buttonsare the senses: vision, taste, smell, touch and sound and they can be pushed byexperiences from the outside world.-Ronald Kotulak

Observe perpetually-Henry James

Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.-Elizabeth Lawrence

Nothing takes root in mind when there is no balance between doing and receiving.-John Dewey

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.-Eden Phillpotts

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.-Robert M. Pirsig

If I have learnt anything it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full ofbeauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will everreturn.-Margot Fonteym

The dynamic interplay of neural activity within and in between systems is the veryessence of brain function.-Richard Restak

...the research on the brain does not validate that we are singularly processing input orlearning with a single sensory input.-Eric Jensen

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.-Berthold Auerbach

If it isn't used, it isn't learned-Aleksandr Luria

Personal participation is the universal principle of knowing.-Michael Polanyi

Motion is the context of living. We find meaning my and in our doing.-Robert Kegan

Nothing reaches the intellect before making its appearance in the senses.-Latin proverb

The more voices we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes wecan use to observe one thing, the more complete will our concept of this thing, ourobjectivity be.-Fredrich Nietzsche

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.-Carl G. Jung

All of us are watchers - of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway - -but feware observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.-Peter M. Leschak, Writer and Firefighter

Seeing many things, but thou observest not.-Isaiah 42: 20

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

-John Burroughs

One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyesmore than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against theevidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what theyhave seen than what they have heard.-Eric Hoffer

Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain ofit no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holyand hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, andlife itself is grace.-Frederick Buechner, Author, in 'Now and Then'

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you mustread, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, andwrite poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.-J. Krishnamurti, Indian Philosopher

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.-Samuel Butler

If you will look carefully, Listen carefully, You will find a lot of things carefully. Look ...and listen. It's good to Look carefully. Listen carefully. That's the way you learn a lot ofthings carefully. Look. Look...and listen. Some things you see are confusing. Somethings you hear are strange. But if you ask someone to explain one or two, You'll beginto notice a change in you. If you will Look carefully. Listen carefully. That's a way tokeep on growing carefully. Look, look, look, and listen.-Mr. Fred Rogers, 1970

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.-Samuel Butler

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.-Leonardo da Vinci

Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.--Amos Bronson Alcott, educator and philosopher

You can observe a lot just by watching.-Yogi Berra

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have notgot it.

-George Bernard Shaw,

The power of imagination makes us infinite.-John Muir

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.-Henry David Thoraeu

All credibility, all god conscious, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.-Friedrich Nietzshe

Creating, Imagining, and Innovating

_Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soonyou have a dozen.-John Steinbeck

All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squandertheirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thingonly: my art.-Pablo Picasso

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.-Thomas Wentworth Higginson

To me the desire to create and to have control over your own life, irrespective of thepolitics of the time or social structures, has always been a part of the human spirit. WhatI did not fully realize was that work could open the doors to my heart.-Anita Roddick, Founder/CEO, The Body Shop

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

There is nothing mysterious about originality, nothing fantastic. Originality is merely thestep beyond.-Louis Danz

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing itbetter.

-John Updike

An idea is a feat of association.-Robert Frost

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

The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake isour lack of imagination.-Julian Simon

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, youwill have betrayed yourself.-Rollo May

Creativity, my students learn, is as natural a function of the mind as breathing ordigestion are natural functions of the body.-John Kao

I believe everybody is creative, and everybody is talented. I just don't think thateverybody is disciplined. I think that's a rare commodity.-Al Hirschfield

I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which tocreativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the largestnumber of creative reasons on its side.-Katharine Butler Hathaway

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

What is now proved was once imagined.-William Blake

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.-George Bernard Shaw

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.-Mary Caroline Richards

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.-Lauren Bacall

The future is not a result of choice among alternative paths offered by the present, but aplace that is created--created first in mind and will, created next in activity. The future isnot some place we are going to but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found,but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination.-John Schaar

Art is a terrific vehicle because it unlocks kid's imaginations, touches us in emotionalways, brings to life what might otherwise be abstract.-Ted Mitchell

A firm grounding in the arts teaches practical skills and such characteristics as self-discipline and critical thinking. The arts naturally embrace paradox and ambiguity; tostudy them is to learn flexible thinking. Those who have trained in an art form are morelikely not only to grasp the nuances in real life, say the experts, but also to persevere infinding novel solutions to everyday problems.-Susan Gaines

We need people who can read and write. But what we really need is people who cannot only read the instructions, but change them. They need to be able to think outsidethe lines.-Richard Gurin, CEO and President, Binney & Smith, Croyola Products

Insanity is continuing to do the same thing over and over and expecting different results.-Albert Einstein

To stimulate creativity, one must develop the childlike inclination for play and thechildlike desire for recognition.-Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge.-Albert Einstein

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,'then by all means paint, and thatvoice will be silenced.-Vincent Van Gogh

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humorto console him for what he is.-Sir Francis Bacon

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers-Arthur Koestler

Man can only become what he is able to consciously imagine, or to 'image forth.'-Dane Rudhyar

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit byoriginality, overcomes everything.-George Lois, Advertising Executive

Every artist was first an amateur.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving,but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly andevery day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude andidleness.-Brenda Ueland

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple,awesomely simple, that's creativity.-Charles Mingus

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

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the childwith its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplinedadult intelligence.---Norman Podhoretz

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.-Mark Twain

Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life.-Simone Weil

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.-Herman Melville

Education for creativity is nothing short of education for living.-Eric Fromm

Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.-Rollo May

Far out thinking is a means to an end - To him whose elastic and vigorous thoughtkeeps pace with the sun, The day is a perpetual morning.-Henry David Thoreau

The vast majority of problems, decisions and situations which confront us daily arethose which do not have just one answer. Several solutions are usually possible. Logicsuggests that if one can mentally generate many possible solutions, the more likely it isthat an optimum solution will be reached. This a creative process-the formation of newand useful relationships.-Richard E. Manelis

If you can walk you can dance, if you can talk you can sing.-Zimbabwean Proverb

People who do not break things first will never create anything.-Tagalog ( Filipino) Proverb

Money isn't the scarcest resource -- imagination is.-Linda Yates, Painted Wolf Ltd.

Happiness...it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.-Franklin D. Roosevelt

To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.-George Kneller

The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies atthe very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.-George J. Seidel

You unlock the door with the key of imagination-Rod Serling

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.-Wallace Stevens

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humorto console him for what he is.-Francis Bacon

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in thesame individual.-Arthur Koestler, Novelist

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.-Alfred Nobel

The Possible's slow fuse is lit / By the Imagination.-Emily Dickinson

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

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.-Pablo Picasso

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit byoriginality overcomes everything.-George Lois

You are creative. Your creativity may be in a deep sleep, but it is there. All you have todo is wake it up and put it to use.-Kevin Elkenberry, Speaker and Consultant

Let us consider an alternative style of thinking, which we can call 'creative thinking.' It isplayfully instructive to note that the word 'reactive' and the word'creative' are made up ofexactly the same letters. The only difference between the two is that you 'C' [see]differently.-John Quincy Adams, U.S. President

The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.-Rita Mae Brown

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.-Herman Melville

The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake isour lack of imagination.-Julian Simon, economist

It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk awayand smile at it.-Lady Bird Johnson, U.S. First Lady

I dwell in possibility.-Emily Dickinson

The only job we have been given when we came to this earth is to create. Everythingwe do is a creation, from a job, to children to thoughts. We all create all the time, it is allwe do.-Tom Justin, author and trainer

Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking atthe curb, lying on the grass or sitting on the stoop and staring at the tedious blue of thesummer sky. I don't believe you can write poetry, or compose music, or become anactor without downtime, and plenty of it, a hiatus that passes for boredom but is reallythe quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.-Anna Quindlen, Pulitzer Prize winning writer

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard bywhich to judge it.-Carl. R. Rogers

Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity... any activity becomes creativewhen the doer cares about doing it right, or better...-John Updike, novelist, poet

Defying conventional ideas can yield unconventional returns.-Jackson W. Robinson, President, Winslow Management Company

If you can imagine it, You can achieve it. If you can dream it, You can become it.-William Arthur Ward

We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by menwho have crossed bridges 'in their imagination far ahead of the crowd.'-Anonymous

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.-Frank Capra, film director

You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.-Mark Twain

It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are a minorityof one.-E. Paul Torrence,

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.-Scott Adams

Discipline and focused awareness ... contribute to the act of creation.

-John Poppy

The innovator is not an opponent of the old, but a proponent of the new.-Lyle E. Schaller, author

Change cannot be avoided. Change provides the opportunity for innovation. It gives youthe chance to demonstrate your creativity.-Keshavan Nair, Author and Professor

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in thesame individual.-Arthur Koestler, Novelist

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.-Charles Kettering

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.-Ellen Key, author

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.-Linus Pauling

Live out of your imagination, not your history.-Stephen Covey

Innovation is the creation of the new or the re-arranging of the old in a new way.-Mike Vance

The innovative point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seekthe opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams.-W. Arthur Porter

The world leaders in innovation and creativity will also be the world leaders ineverything else.-Harold R. McAlindon

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there'sevidence of any thinking going on inside it.-Terry Pratchett, author

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds.A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.-William James

Live in your imagination today, for tomorrow it can become your reality.-Kevin Eikenberry, author and speaker

If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.-Charles Kettering, inventor

Innovators and men of genius have almost always been regarded as fools at thebeginning (and very often at the end) of their careers.-Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with whichthey are not familiar. Thus, innovators have generally been persecuted and alwaysderided as fools and madmen.-Aldous Huxley

I believe in being an innovator-Walt Disney

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.-Martin Luther King, Jr.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.-Larry Ellison

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.-Steve Jobs

This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one elserecognizes that it is present.-Deepak Chopra

The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and producesthe best result.-Edward de Bono

We haven't the money so we have to think.-Sir Earnest Rutherford

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.-Carl Sagan,

Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativityand growth.-Tom Barrett, public speaker, author and entrepreneur

The power of imagination makes us infinite.-John Muir

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination.-Vincent van Gogh

Creativity flourishes when we have a sense of safety and self-acceptance.-Julia Cameron

Creativity is available to all of us. We need only reach for it. Choose it. Embrace it. Lifeis too brief not to follow our passion and live in the fullness of our creativity,-Michael Toms

Creative thinking may be simply the realization that there is no particular virtue in doingthings the way they have always been done.-Rudolf Flesch

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the playinstinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.-C.G.Jung

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

Creativity is indispensable in today's world. Children need to practice creative skills inschools to become the source of innovation to drive the economy in the future.--State Representative Dan Bosley (D-MA)

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities.Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.-Gloria Steinem, journalist and women's rights advocate

People get very creative if you include them.-Arnold Schwarzenegger

The man who has no imagination has no wings.-Muhammad Ali

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.-Erich Fromm,

Insist upon yourself. Be original.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away.-Linus Pauling

Responding With Wonderment and Awe

_The most beautiful experience in the world is the experience of the mysterious.-Albert Einstein.

The real mark of the creative person is that the unforeseen problem is a joy and not acurse.-Norman H. Mackworth

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily andsuccessfully.-Tyrone Edwards

Practice being excited.-Bill Foster

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory and in creative action, thatman finds his supreme joys.-Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Align people's passions with the priorities and you'll achieve performance.-Steve Brown

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.-George Hegel

A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than aneminent degree of curiosity.-Samuel Johnson

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.-Denis Diderot

Be anchored to some ideal, philosophy or cause that keeps you too excited to sleep.-Brian Koslow

Your work is to discover your work, and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.-Buddha

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.-Albert Einstein

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a worldso small that my mind could comprehend it.-Harry Emerson Fosdick

Disgust and resolve are two of the great emotions that lead to change.-Jim Rohn

You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building afire within.-Bob Nelson

You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored andtherefore tired of doing nothing... Get interested in something! Get absolutely enthralledin something! Get out of yourself! Be somebody! Do something... The more you loseyourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.-Norman Vincent Peale

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with themost useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.-Eleanor Roosevelt

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.-Samuel Johnson

To me the desire to create and to have control over your own life, irrespective of thepolitics of the time or social structures, has always been a part of the human spirit. WhatI did not fully realize was that work could open the doors to my heart.-Anita Roddick, Founder/CEO, The Body Shop

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all thatwe need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.-Charles Kingsley

Enthusiasm is not something you can eat or drink. It's something that bubbles up fromthe depth of your own heart and soul.-Robert Schuller

We have to pursue this subject of fun very seriously if we want to stay competitive in thetwenty-first century.-George Yeo

People do their best work when they are passionately engaged in what they are doing.-Erie S. Raymond

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

Fun is going to enhance interest, because people don't feel incompetent when they'rehaving fun.-Matthew S. Richter

There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity andaccomplishment.-Norman Vincent Peale

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means neverlosing your enthusiasm.-Aldous Huxley, author

To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work.-Sister Mary Lauretta

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.-Abraham Joshua Heschel

Enthusiasm moves the world.-J. Balfour

Winning isn't everything. *Wanting* to win is.-Catfish Hunter

I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who *have* to dance.-George Balanchine

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals andachieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you paradethrough each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings youcloser to fulfilling your dreams.-Og Mandino

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.-Dorothea Brande

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep youawake during the night.-Marilyn Vos Savant

When every physical and mental resources is focused-one's power to solve a problemmultiplies tremendously.-Norman Vincent Peale

Once you do something you love, you never have to work again.-Willie Hill, student

Genius is initiative on fire-Holbrook Johnson

If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to bepushed. The vision pulls you.-Steven Jobs

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.-John Stuart Mills

Find a way to engage the heart in the problem and you are likely to see the child risenaturally to his own optimal levels of uncertainty, risk and relevance.-Richard Jones

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will pointout the means.-Henry Hazlitt

Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it.-Joseph Campbell

All thinking begins with wondering-Socrates

Wisdom begins in wonder.-Socrates

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, isnot 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'-Isaac Asimov

I would sooner live in a cottage and wonder at everything than live in a castle andwonder at nothing!-Joan Winmill Brown, Actress

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.-Claude Helvetius

Practice being excited.-Bill Foster

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generatesinspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.-Frank Tibolt, Author

I want to be excited, thrilled, ecstatic about all sorts of things as long as I live.-Win Couchman, Writer and Speaker

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with themost useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.-Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

The great man is he who does not lose his child-heart-Mencius

A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is ourmisfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what isbeautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.-Rachel Carson

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.-Pablo Picasso

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes yourhopes rise to the stars. With it, there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis.-Henry Ford, Industrialist

Life is enthusiasm, zest.-Sir Laurence Olivier

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.-Ralph W. Sockman, Minister

A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.

-Willa Cather

My work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise Inow enjoy, but chiefly from a craving after knowledge, which I notice resides in me morethan in most other men.-Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Renowned Biologist

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; hiseyes are closed.-Albert Einstein

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits theshock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.-Henri-Frederic Amiel, Swiss Philosopher and Poet

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.-Antoine Rivarol

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reasons for existing.One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life,of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries to comprehend a little ofthis mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.-Edmund Burke

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for newinterests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it willalways lead t o something else.-Eleanor Roosevelt

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?-Nietzsche

We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls,the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle andmagic.-E. Merrill Root

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.-Claude Helvetius

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all yourheart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could neverbe yours.-Dale Carnegie

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.-Paul Goodman, Author and Poet

We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives uspleasure.-Carl Sagan

Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about themeaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves.-Herbert W. Boyer

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.-Gerry Spence, Author

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.-Abraham Joshua Heschell

Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.-Charles Buxton

The world belongs to the energetic.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.-Charles M. Schwab

Enthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action.-Henry Chester

I have no special gift. I am only passionately curious.-Albert Einstein

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas,at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motionof the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.-Saint Augustine

We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins,the venerable forms of the hoary mountains, great waterfalls, and galleries of art. Andyet the world's wonder is all around us; the wonder of setting suns, and evening stars, ofthe magic spring-time, the blossoming of the trees, the strange transformations of themoth..-Albert Pike, writer

A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.-Howard Thurman, US educator and theologian.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.-Walt Disney

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they havedeep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision.-Muhammad Ali

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, inthe thrill of creative effort.-Franklin D. Roosevelt

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.-Ralph W. Sockman, minister

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to beultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.-Abraham Maslow

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they havedeep inside them--a desire, a dream, a vision-Muhammed Ali

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.-Aaron Rose, artist and writer

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.-Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher

Optimal experience is that rare occasion when we feel a sense of exhilaration, a deepsense of enjoyment that is long cherished and that becomes a landmark in memory forwhat life should be like.-Mihaly Csikszentmihalyhi Flow

If you're dedicated, if it's something that lives and breathes in your heart, then you'vesimply got to go ahead and do it.-Rodney Crowell, singer and songwriter

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm.-Vince Lombardi

Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, andgo do that because what the world needs is people who have come alive.-Howard Thurman

In the next twenty centuries... humanity may begin to understand its most bafflingmystery - where are we going? The earth is, in fact, traveling many thousands of milesper hour in the direction of the constellation Hercules - to some unknown destination inthe cosmos. Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.Mystery, however, is a very necessary ingredient in our lives.. Mystery creates wonderand wonder is the basis for man's desire to understand. Who knows what mysteries willbe solved in our lifetime, and what new riddles will become the challenge of the newgeneration? Science has not mastered prophesy. We predict too much for the next yearyet far too little for the next ten. Responding to challenges is one of democracy's greatstrengths. Our successes in space can be sued in the next decade in the solution ofmany of our planet's problems.-Neil Armstrong

Without awe life becomes routine... try to be surprised by something every day Try tosurprise at least one person every day.-Mihalyi. Csikszentmihalyi

Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.-Conrad Hilton

Enthusiasm moves the world.-Arthur James Balfour,former British prime minister

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of atleast one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mysteryof the world we live in.-Rachel Louise Carson, writer and ecologist

There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and theawareness of existence is immensely heightened.-Charles Baudelaire, French poet

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each momentof life is a miracle and mystery.-H.G. Wells, English author

Finding Humor

_If you can laugh at it, you can live with it.-Erma Bombeck

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.-Elsa Maxwell

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.-Victor Borge

It is not enough to posses wit. One must have enough of it to avoid having too much.-Andre Maurois

The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed.-Sebastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort

I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than be a success at something I hate.-George Burns

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.-Mark Twain

People are at their most mindful when they are at play. If we find ways of enjoying ourwork - blurring the lines between work and play - the gains will be greater.-Ellen Langer

Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline andorder are relieved with some play and some pure foolishness.-May Sarton

Fun is about as good a habit as there is.-Jimmy Buffet

Take time every day to do something silly.-Philipa Walker

You can increase your brain power three to fivefold simply by laughing and having funbefore working on a problem.-Doug Hall

Don't take life too seriously, for you may pass a good laugh along the way!-Keith Gusich,

Laughter is the music of life.

-Sir William Osler

Fun is going to enhance interest, because people don't feel incompetent when they'rehaving fun.-Matthew S. Richter

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.-Ethel Barrymore

Humor comes from self-confidence. There's an aggressive element to wit.-Rita Mae Brown

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.-The Koran

He who laughs, lasts.-Mary Pettibone Poole

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.-Jean Houston

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humorto console him for what he is.-Sir Francis Bacon

A day without laughter is a day wasted.-Charlie Chaplin

Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.-Abraham Lincoln

A good laugh is sunshine in a house.-William Makepeace Thackeray

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken tooseriously.-Nicholas Murray Butler

ou can think best when you're happiest.-Peter Thomson, Australian Golfer

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by everypebble in the road.-Henry Ward Beecher

Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.-Mary Hirsch

Humor has a way of bringing people together. It unites people. In fact, I'm rather seriouswhen I suggest that someone should plant a few whoopee cushions in the UnitedNations.-Ron Dentinger

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer tolaugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.-Kurt Vonnegut

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.-Frank A. Clark

A good laugh is sunshine in a house.-William Makepeace Thackeray

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.-Arnold Glasow

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.-Ken Kesey

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.-Jean Houston

Laughter is an instant vacation.-Milton Berle

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by everypebble on the road.-Henry Ward Beecher

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some thingsare really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled ineveryday affairs.-Christopher Morley

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds.A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.-William James

The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think forten minutes.-William Davis

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation andresentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.-Mark Twain

Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.-Ellie Katz

Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deephas a pretty good grasp of life.-Hugh Sidey

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.-Ludwig Wittgenstein

A good laugh is good for both the mental and physical digestion.-Abraham Lincoln

A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.-Raymond Hitchcock

Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit.-Anon.

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.-Yiddish Proverb

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual senseof humor.-Thomas W. Higginson

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.-Max Eastman

People who laugh actually live longer than those who don't laugh. Few persons realizethat health actually varies according to the amount of laughter.-James J. Walsh

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, isnot 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny ...'-Isaac Asimov

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.-Japanese proverb

If you don't have wrinkles, you haven't laughed enough.-Phyllis Diller, comedienne

Shared laughter is like family glue. It is the stuff of family well-being and all-is-wellthoughts. It brings us together as few other things can.-Valerie Bell, author

Humor is an affirmation of man's dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all thatbefalls him.--Romain Cary

Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part ofthe world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises,the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders.--Oscar W. Firkin : Memoirs and Letters

Wit is the lowest form of humor.-Alexander Pope, 'Essay on Criticism'

Humor can help you to disagree without being disagreeable. The key in democracy isnot necessarily that we agree, but that we participate....Despite all the heavy problems--domestic and international-- there is humor. Humor transcends partisanship.-Gerald Ford

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.-Agnes Repplier, Points of View

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of ourthought.-Lin Yutang

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.-Robert Benchley

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.-Lord Byron, poet

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.-Arnold Glasow

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living,it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope and that enables you tolaugh at life's realities.-Dr. Seuss

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.-Mark Twain

Laughter is the language of the Gods.-Buddhist saying

There are three things which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. The first two arebeyond our comprehension, so we must do what we can with the third.-John F. Kennedy

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of gettingthings done.-Dwight D. Eisenhower

One does not laugh because one is happy; one is happy because one laughs.-Mireille Guiliano

Laughter is wine for the soul -- laugh soft, or loud and deep, tinged through withseriousness. Comedy and tragedy step through life together, arm in arm... Once we canlaugh, we can live.-Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken tooseriously.-Nicholas Murray Butler

Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.-Dorothy Parker

I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross itdeliberately.-George Carlin, comedian, actor

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds.A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.-William James, philosopher, psychologist

Laughter is an instant vacation.-Milton Berle,

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing each other.-Alan Alda, actor

Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can getsilly again.-Mike Myers, actor

To enhance my performance, I laugh a lot. I think laughter is the best remedy foreverything.-Tricia Byrnes, Olympic snowboarder

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.-Reba McEntire,, singer and entertainer

Humor is a rubber sword -- it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.-Mary Hirsch,, author, humorist

You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and staysas long as it wants.-Stephen King,, author

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.-Charles M. Schulz

Laughter rises out of tragedy, when you need it the most, and rewards you for yourcourage.-Erma Bombeck, humorist and writer

In the end, everything is a gag.-Charlie Chaplin

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stoplaughing.-Michael Pritchard, motivational speaker

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.-H. G. Wells

Humor is just another defense against the universe.-Mel Brooks

We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.-Will Rogers

I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears intosomething bearable, even hopeful.-Bob Hope

Look for the ridiculous in everything, and you will find it.-Jules Renard, French author

Laughter is by definition healthy.-Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize in Literature recipient

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.-James Thurber, American humorist and cartoonist

You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.-Jay Leno

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out my nose.-Woody Allen

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.-E.E. Cummings

Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment.-Horace, Roman poet

When humor goes, there goes civilization.-Erma Bombeck,, American humorist

Taking Responsible Risks

_Sometimes you just have to take the leap and build your wings on the way down.-Kobi Yamada

We can never discover new continents until we have the courage to lose sight of allcoasts.-Andre Gide

There is a time for daring and a time for caution, and a wise man knows which is calledfor.-John Keating, Teacher in Dead Poet's Society

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct,your life will be safe, expedient and thin.-Katharine B. Hathaway

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.-Eleanor Roosevelt

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.-Amelia Earhart

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.-Theodore Roosevelt

Risk! Risk anything! . . . Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face thetruth.-Katherine Mansfield

We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring.-Georges Jacque Danton

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

The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support ofa cause we believe to be just.-Abraham Lincoln

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little past them intothe impossible.-Arthur Clarke

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.-John F. Kennedy

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in twosmall jumps.-David Lloyd George

One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilitiesand undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

-Harry Emerson Fosdick

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.-T. S. Eliot

In parenting and teaching, let this be our aim: Not to make every idea safe for children,but every child safe for ideas.-Gerhardt E. Frost

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.-Amelia Earhart

Find a way to engage the heart in the problem and you are likely to see the child risenaturally to his own optimal levels of uncertainty, risk and relevance.-Richard Jones

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks ofcomfortable inaction.-John F. Kennedy

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking - by all means ask!-W. Clement Stone

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear.-William Jennings Bryan

Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do somethingbeyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.-Ronald Osborn

People don't always have the vision, and the secret for the person with the vision is tostand up. It takes a lot of courage.-Natalie Cole

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.-Elbert Hubbard

Do not fear risk. All exploration, all growth is calculated. Without challenge peoplecannot reach their higher selves. Only if we are willing to walk over the edge can webecome winners.-The families of the Challenger Space Shuttle Crew

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.-Beverly Sills

. . . if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.-Erica Jong

I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put itin the hands of someone who doesn't know me. I know me best. Then take a breath andgo ahead.-Anita Baker

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do thehardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.-Katherine Mansfield

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act.Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.-Maxwell Maltz

My advice to someone who wants to become a CEO: Take risks and never stoplearning.-Barry Rand CEO, Avis Rental Car

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into theimpossible.-Arthur C. Clarke

To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.-Pierre Corneille

There has been a calculated risk in every stage of American development--the pioneerswho were not afraid of the wilderness, businessmen who were not afraid of failure,dreamers who were not afraid of action.-Brooks Atkinson

Failure is always a safe, familiar, no-risk refuge, a known experience; it focuses ontesting no new responsibilities upon one. Success, on the other hand, is unknownterritory and a high-risk business; the very life-style it imposes if full of relentlessdemands for even better performances and achievements.-Alan H. Olmstead

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried andsucceeded.-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Do not fear adversity. Remember, a kite rises against the wind rather than with it.People are not willing to take risks when they feel afraid or threatened. But if youmanage people by love--that is, if you show them respect and trust-they start to performup to their real capabilities.-Jan Carlson, President, Scandinavian Airlines System.

Every creative project I've produced required courage and a triumph over fear, but somepotential accomplishments remain unrealized because of fear of failure, fear ofrejection, fear of ridicule, fear of error.-Dr. Edward Rockey

Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself moreoften when I was younger -because when you do, you find out you can do it.-William Sessions, Former FBI Director

Everything is sweetened by risk.-Alexander Smith

I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.-Dr. Joyce Brothers

I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and theconfidence and the risk-seeking profile that you need.-Laurel Cutler

You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.-Wayne Gretzky

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?-Frank Scully

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not darethat they are difficult.-Seneca

Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.-Frederick B. Wilcox

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.-Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do thanby the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

-Mark Twain

Why not go out on a limb. Isn't that where the fruit is?-Frank Scully

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.-Robert F. Kennedy

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.-J. C. F. Schiller

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.-T.S. Eliot

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.-Herodotus

Be always sure you're right, then go ahead.-Davy Crockett

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.-Julia Sorel, Author

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.-Janet E. Stuart

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.-Liz Smith

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable donothing.-William Feather

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all.-Elbert Hubbard

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take -- choose the bolder.-William Joseph Slim, British Field Marshall

Leap and the net will appear.-Julie Cameron

Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thingtaking.-Tim McMahon

Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.---Anon.

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.-Erica Jong, Author

If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much room.-Jayne Howard

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.-General George S. Patton

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.-Mario Andretti

Nothing ventured, something lost.-Neale Clapp, Consultant

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not darethat they are difficult.-Seneca

You miss 100% of the shots you never take.-Wayne Gretzky

The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things,who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.-B. C. Forbes

Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.-Anonymous

Do one thing everyday that scares you.-Eleanor Roosevelt

Leap and the net will appear.-Zen saying

Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is acommand to deliver mental resources.-Norman Vincent Peale pastor, speaker, & author

Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself moreoften when I was younger because when you do, you find out you can do it.-William Sessions, former FBI Director

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we didnot do that is inconsolable.-Sydney J. Harris, Strictly Personal

If you let fear of the unknown stop you from taking chances, you will stifle your truepotential.-Steve Rizzo, speaker, comedian, and author

To win, you have to risk loss.-Jean-Claude Killy, champion skier

It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are a minorityof one.-E. Paul Torrence,

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear.-William Jennings Bryan

One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilitiesand undertake the most interesting game in the world. Making the most of one's best.-Harry Emerson Fosdick, minister and author

Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day!-Paul Gauguin

Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone.-Robert Allen, Author and Speaker

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the onewho is willing to do and dare.-Dale Carnegie, author

Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyondthe norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.-Emerson

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

If you trust your nerve as well as your skill, you're capable of a lot more than you canimagine.-Debi Thomas, Olympic figure skater

We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.-Tom Clancy, American novelist

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.-Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's Corp.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risklife, to be needed.-Storm Jameson, British Writer

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?-Frank Scully, writer and columnist

Do one thing every day that scares you.-Eleanor Roosevelt

Develop your initiative. Do something no one else had done.-Thomas Watson Sr. IBM

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.-Babe Ruth

You've got to have the guts not to be afraid to screw up.-Fuzzy Zoeller, professional golfer

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.-Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's Corp.

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?-Frank Scully

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer isalways no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.-Nora Roberts

We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.

-Marcel Proust, French novelist

The greatest barrier to innovation/creativity is fear. Fear of failure, fear of success, fearof ridicule or speculation or being noticed...whatever. Just fear of reaching into theunknown, trying something different. The way it's always been is safe. Change is scaryand takes courage to initiate. Those who dare to say what if? and take even the 1ststeps toward change are the bravest of souls.-Beverly Mardis

Only when we accept full responsibility for our lives will we have the confidence andcourage to risk.-Stacy Allison (First American women to climb Mt. Everest)

Thinking Interdependently

_Take care of each other. Share your energies with the group. No one must feel alone,cut off, for that is when you do not make it.-Willi Unsoeld (Renowned mountain climber)

The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most stronglyunited by the fiercest flame.-Charles Caleb Colton

An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen, but greatens, his life.-Rabbi Stephen S. Wise

We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing oneanother.-Luciano De Crescenzo, Author

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate withthe aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong.Because someday in life you will have been all of these.-George Washington Carver

Every person you meet - and everything you do in life - is an opportunity to learnsomething.-Tom Clancy, Author

To keep your resolve, surround yourself with those who want you to succeed. The braincannot do its job of protecting the body without contact with other people.-Robert Ornstein and David Sobel in 'The Healing Brain'

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight ofracism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never becomereality. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.-Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Success depends above all, upon people. Build relationships, teams, partnerships --and motivate people to contribute. Cultivate leadership, creativity, excellence. Listen;seek new ideas and advice.-Ruth Scott

Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When peopleplant corn they are saying, let's stay here. And by their connection to the land, they areconnected to one another.-Anne Raver

Getting along well with other people is still the world's most needed skill. With it... thereis no limit to what person can do. We need people, we need the cooperation of others.There is very little we can do alone-Earl Nightingale

Every function in.. cultural development appears twice: First, on the social level, andlater on the individual level; first between people (interpsychological), and then inside(intrapsychological). This applies equally to voluntary attention, to logical memory, andto the formation of concepts. All the higher functions originate as actual relationshipsbetween individuals.-Lev Vygotsky

Anytime a change takes place in the future, it starts as a vision in someone's mind. Theperson draws other people into that vision and when enough people are drawn intoshare that vision, it explodes into activity.-Nancy Hathaway

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do whenthey stick together.-Vista M. Kelly

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.-Michael De Montaigne

Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile andprecious thing.-Randolph Bourne

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up toyou a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.-George Bernard Shaw

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for what ever good we give out completes thecircle and comes back to us.-Hora Edwards

Happiness in life is not measured by the things we achieve, the places we go, or theroute that we take to get there. Happiness in life is measured by the people that weshare all of our experiences with.-Chris Needham

The only true gift is a portion of yourself.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but itis a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people withkindness and decency. The point is not that they will then be nice to you. It is that youwill feel better about yourself.-Robert Merton Solow

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonistin our helper.-Edmund Burke

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets theencouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received theencouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and theworld would produce abundance beyond our wildest dreams.-Sidney Madwed

An authentic leader acts in ways which serve to elevate those around him.-Sean M. Georges

How can you have charisma? Be more concerned about making others feel good aboutthemselves than you are making them feel good about you.-Dan Reiland

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.-Margaret Mead

Shared values are the glue that holds this organization together-Shelly Brown

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.-Henrik Ibsen

It may have happened that, at some point in my life, I took some part of me out of thedarkness and placed it in the light for the eyes of another. It may be that this otherperson did not understand, and I ran full of regrets into a painful emotional solitude. Yet,there may have been other moments when someone heard my secret and accepted myconfidence in gentle hands. I remember the gentle pressure that told me I wasunderstood. It was a great and liberating experience, and in its wake I felt so much morealive. An immense need had been answered in me to be really listened to, to be takenseriously, and to be understood. It is only through this kind of sharing that we come toknow ourselves. Introspection of itself is helpless. We can confide all of our secrets tothe docile pages of a personal diary, but we can know ourselves and experience thefullness of life only in the sharing with another person.-John Powell

Nobody, but nobody / Can make it out here alone.-Maya Angelou

He who knows others is wise; / He knows himself is enlightened.-Lao-Tzu

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likelyone will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.-Nathaniel Branden

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it isonly by this meeting that this new world is born.-Anais Nin

Community is...a dynamic set of relationships in which a synergistic, self-regulatingwhole is created out of the combination of individual parts into a cohesive, identifiable,unified form.-Center for the Study of Community, Santa Fe, New Mexico

The Master Mind principle: Two or more people actively engaged in the pursuit of adefinite purpose with a positive mental attitude, constitute an unbeatable force.

-Napoleon Hill

Isolation is a blind alley....Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence.-Teilhard de Chardin

The ultimate use of power is to empower others.-William Glasser

Communities are places or entities where each member can give something, wherethey can contribute something that they feel especially able to give, something that theyare good at. The gift from each member is valued by the whole community and all giftsare unique and individual. The gift that community gives back to each member is that ofa role and a connection.-Ed Margarson

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.-Charles Caleb Colton

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walkbeside me and be my friend.-Albert Camus.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.-Mencius

I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay.-Dave Matthews Band

Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to whatyou don't say.-Anonymous

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of eachother everywhere-Tim McGraw

Become the world's most thoughtful friend.-H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Author

We are all healers of each other. Look at David Spiegel's fascinating study of puttingpeople together in a support group and seeking that some people in it live twice as longas other people who are not in a support group. I asked David what went on in thosegroups and he said that people just cared about each other. Nothing big, no deep

psychological stuff--people just cared about each other. The reality is that healinghappens between people.-Rachel Naomi Remen

We provide both irritation and inspiration for each other-the grist for each other's pearlmaking.-Stephen Nachmonovitch

It takes two to know one.-Gregory Bateson

The miracle is this....The more we share, the more we have-Leonard Nimoy

Don't talk about your troubles. No one loves a sad face. Oh, Mom, the truth is Cheerisolates, Humor defends, Competence intimidates, Control separates, And sadness,Sadness opens us each to the other.-Bill Moyers

The greatest single step in organic evolution was the aggregation of different bacteria tomake the nucleated cell. Similarly, the greatest step so far in our cultural evolution hasbeen the aggregation of different cultures to make multi-cultures. There are many kindsof multi-culture, ranging from multinational corporations to major cities like New York.But the self-complication of human culture will not stop there, because it is a self-propelled process. Today's multi-cultures are like the creatures of a colony, coexistingas more or less isolated 'ghettos.' Tomorrow's multi-cultures will be more like genuinemulti-cellular organism's, in which 'extelligence' is specialized like the different tissues ofa complex animal. Our new communication technologies are beginning to knit all of thedifferent multi-cultures into a new entity, a superculture: Humanity.-Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen

As we develop soul in our work we need to recognize our dual identity: We are bothindividuals and members of a group. Indeed, finding the soul of work involves thebalance and integration of apparent opposites, such as head and heart, intellect andintuition, and self and group. This process is not so much based on the 'shoulds butupon 'what is.' It is my belief that as we attend to the soul of work, we will find we feelmore complete.-Daryl Paulson

People are not willing to take risks when they feel afraid or threatened. But if youmanage people by love--that is, if you show them respect and trust--they start toperform up to their real capabilities.-Jan Carlson, CEO Scandinavian Airlines

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to directindividual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allowscommon people to accomplish uncommon results.-Anonymous

I desire that there be as many different persons in the world as possible; I would haveeach one be very careful to find out and preserve his own way.-Henry David Thoreau

Achievement is a we thing, not a me thing, always the produce of many heads andhands.-J. Atkinson

Team members need to be able to suspend disbelief, think the unthinkable, and letintuition and premonitions flow freely. Therefore, a necessary skill in team members istolerance for ambiguity.-Kees van der Heijden

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall,one will lift up his fellow; woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another tolift him up. Again, if two lie together, they are warm; but how can one be warm alone?And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him. Athreefold cord is not quickly broken.-Ecclesiastes 4: 9-13

A unique relationship develops among team members who enter into dialogue regularly.They develop a deep trust that cannot help but carry over to discussions. They developa richer understanding of the uniqueness of each person's point of view.-Peter Senge

A person's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.-Charles Darwin

He alone has lost the art to live who cannot win new friends.-S. Weir Mitchell

Since there is nothing so worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.-Francesco Guicciardini

A man's growth is seen in the successive choir of his friends.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Solitude: A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.-Josh Billing

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.-Donna Roberts

Help your brother's boat across, and your own will reach the shore.-Hindu proverb

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in service to others.-Mahatma Gandhi

You can get everything you want in life, if you just help enough other people get whatthey want.-Zig Ziglar

Now this is the Law of the Jungle--as old and as true as the sky: And the Wolf that shallkeep it may prosper; but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdlesthe tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back--For the strength of the Pack is theWolf, And the strength of the Wolf is the Pack. Now this is the Law of the Jungle--as oldand as true as the sky: And the player that keeps it shall prosper; But the player thatbreaks it must die. As the ball and the parts it is made of Are bound and held fast at theseam-- The strength of the team is the player; And the strength of the player the team.-Rudyard Kipling

We need a spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together. If we have nosense of community, the American dream will wither.-Bill Clinton

Here's what is exciting about sharing ideas with others: if you share a new idea with tenpeople, they get to hear it once and you get to hear it ten times.-Jim Rohn, Speaker and Author

I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.-Woodrow Wilson

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Knowledge, or anything else for that matter, really doesn't exist until it is shared.Intelligent, kind -hearted people who freely share their knowledge an humanity in theworkplace will find the greatest success.-Joel Schettler

When spiders unite, they can tie up a lion.-Ethiopian Proverb

Nobody wins unless everybody wins.-Bruce Springsteen

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn inschool. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learnedanything.-Muhammad Ali

The man who thinks he can live without others is mistaken; the one who thinks otherscan't live without him is even more deluded.-Hasidic saying

No man is wise enough by himself.-Plautus

If a link is broken, the entire chain breaks.-Yiddish proverb

Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a companywork, a society work, a civilization work.-Vince Lombardi

Relationships are a prerequisite for producing results beyond ourselves. They expandour imaginations to infinite possibilities that cannot exist in a life of isolation.-Brian Koslow

We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt.-William Ernest Hocking

The most needed, wanted, and powerful activity in which you can engage on or off thejob is to authentically recognize, acknowledge, and appreciate others.-Brian Koslow

Difference is the beginning of synergy.-Stephen R. Covey, Author

In the long history of humankind (and animalkind, too) those who learned to collaborateand improvise most effectively have prevailed.-Charles Darwin

No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. Hethat is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.-Ben Jonson poet, dramatist

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.-Izaak Walton

No matter what accomplishments you achieve, somebody helped you.-Althea Gibson, tennis champion

None of us has gotten where we are solely by pulling ourselves up from our ownbootstraps. We got here because somebody. bent down and helped us.-Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court Justice

By working together, pooling our resources and building on our strengths, we canaccomplish great things.-Ronald Reagan, U.S. President

Never, if possible, lie down at night without being able to say: I have made one humanbeing, at least, a little wiser, a little happier, or a little better this day.-Charles Kingsley, author

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those innerqualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.-Martin Luther King Jr

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.-Margaret Fuller, author and teacher

Knowledge sharing is the basis of everything. Share knowledge with reckless abandon.-Tim Sanders, Chief Solutions Officer at Yahoo

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.-Napoleon Hill, author

There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragementto us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as oursuccess.-George Adams, philosopher

Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.-Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.-Anthony J. D'Angelo

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self toothers.-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Everything is connected. No one thing can change by itself.-Paul Hawken, author and entrepreneur

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit fordoing it.-Andrew Carnegie

A man never gets to this station in life without being helped, aided, shoved, pushed andprodded to do better. I want to be honest with you: The players I played with and thecoaches I had, they are directly responsible for my being here. I want you all toremember that. I always will.--Johnny Unitas, Professional football player during his Hall of Fame induction speech

No man is a failure who has friends.-Henry Travers as Clarence in 'It's a Wonderful Life'

The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes whoplay best together.-Lisa Fernandez,. softball legend

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement...all success... allachievement in real life grows.-Ben Stein, author, actor and economist

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it isonly by this meeting that a new world is born.-Anis Nin

Surround yourself with amazingly intelligent men and women. The people I work withnot only are smarter than I am, possessing both intellectual and emotional intelligence,but also share my determination to succeed. I will not make an important decisionwithout them.-George Steinbrenner, Owner of the New York Yankees

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on thelabors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in thesame measure as I have received and am still receiving.-Albert Einstein

Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.

-Earvin 'Magic' Johnson

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone ... and whatever happens is the resultof the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads from one toanother that creates something.-Sandra Day O'Connor

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together issuccess.-Henry Ford

Whatever power I exert is collegial.-Katharine Graham, former owner, publisher of The Washington Post

The mark of a good team is how it reacts when things aren't going in its favor.-Chris Osgood, Professional hockey player

You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something forothers - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.-Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Peace Prize winner

It takes a team to do anything of lasting value-John Maxwell

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve byourselves-Lyndon B. Johnson

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.-Helen Keller

When you ask people what it is like being part of a great team, what is most striking isthe meaningfulness of the experience. People talk about being part of something largerthan themselves, of being connected, of being generative. It becomes quite clear that,for many, their experiences as part of truly great teams stand out as singular periods oflife lived to the fullest.-Peter Senge

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of eachindividual.-Vince Lombardi, Pro Football Hall of Fame coach

When teams are truly learning, not only are they producing extraordinary results, but theindividual members are growing more rapidly than could have occurred otherwise.

-Peter Senge The Fifth Discipline (1990) p 10

Remaining Open to Continuous Learning

_The only thing that we can know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flightof human wisdom.-Leo Tolstoy

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

Certainty ends inquiry.-Jacob Brownowski The Ascent of Man

To learn is to change.-George B. Leonard

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a lot from failure.-Jean Kerr, American Author and Playwright

In a humble state, you learn better. I can't find anything else very exciting about humility,but at least there's that.-John Dooner, Chairman and CEO of Interpublic

Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before.-Arthur Guiterman

Every person you meet - and everything you do in life - is an opportunity to learnsomething.-Tom Clancy, Author

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.-Goethe

Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.-Jean Vanier

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.-Elbert Hubbard

No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be,there is a lesson to be learned from it. No matter what happens to you, no matter howunfair, inequitable or wrong, there's something you can take from the situation and usefor your advancement.-Peter McWilliams, Author

There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.-Phyllis Bottome

He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the least so.-C.C. Colton

If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting but I would have to decline,for life would no longer teach me anything.-Allyson Jones

An expert is a fellow who is afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn't be anexpert anymore.-Harry S Truman

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.-Jean Toomer

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

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

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.-John Dewey

Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival.-W. Edwards Deming

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.-Socrates

To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know isdisease.-Lao Tsu

We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in afundamental sense a scholar--that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire--canhope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.-Nathan M. Pusey, President of Harvard University

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. Thatquality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life.-Chris Evert Lloyd, William Safire's Good Advice

Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student-George Iles

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keepslearning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.-Henry Ford

The human body is river of intelligence, energy and information that is constantlyrenewing itself in every second of its existence.-Deepak Chopra

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is butsaying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.-Alexander Pope

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

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.-Aldous Huxley

One of the most difficult problems of our age is that leaders, and perhaps academics aswell, cannot readily admit that things are out of control and that we do not know what todo. We have too much information, limited cognitive abilities to think in systemic termsand an unwillingness to appear to be in control and to have solutions for our problems.We are afraid that if we admit to our confusion, we will make our followers and studentsanxious and disillusioned. We know we must learn how to learn, but we are afraid toadmit it.-Donald Michael

If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become yournext problem.

-Dr. Robert Anthony

Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed withbeing right?-Wayne W. Dyer

I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures,those who make it or those who don't. I divide the world into learners and non-learners.-Benjamin Barber

Those who succeed and do not push on to greater failure are the spiritual middle-classers.-Eugene O'Neill

One of the biggest things I've learned is that I don't always have to be right.-Jeffrey B. Swartz

The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.-Anonymous.

The top of the hill is but the bottom of another mountain.-Ankit Jamwal

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrowfield.-Niels Bohr

The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it.Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and thework is half done already.-J.N. Fadenburg

Only in growth, reform and change... paradoxically enough... is true security to befound.-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant,are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they'renecessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.-Richard David Bach

When you're through changing, you're through.-Bruce Barton

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, 'I have failedthree times,' and what happens when he says, 'I'm a failure.'-S. I. Hayakawa

Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allowwhat is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen,then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.-E. L. Konigsburg

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a lifespent doing nothing.-George Bernard Shaw

The man who has ceased to learn ought not to be allowed to wander around loose inthese dangerous days.-M.M. Coady

It is necessary for us to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough tomake them all yourself.-Hyman Rickover

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They'rewhat make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.-Cicely Tyson

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.-Gloria Steinem

. . . this thing we call 'failure' is not falling down, but the staying down.-Mary Pickford

Dare to be naive.-R. Buckminster Fuller

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.-Thomas Edison

Other people may not have had high expectations for me...but I had high expectationsfor myself.-Shannon Miller

Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.-Plato

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished That will be thebeginning.-Louis L'Amour

There is no finish line.-Nike Corporation

In a time of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselvesbeautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.-Eric Hoffer

As we have come to view teaching, it begins with an act of reason, continues with aprocess of reasoning, culminates in performances of imparting, eliciting, involving, orenticing, and is then thought about some more until the process can begin again-Lee Shulman

Perhaps for the first time in history, human-kind has the capacity to create far moreinformation than anyone can absorb; to foster far greater interdependency than anyonecan manage, and to accelerate change far faster than anyone's ability to keep pace.-Peter Senge

A goal of education is. to assist growth toward greater complexity and integration and toassist in the process of self-organization - to modify individuals' capacity to modifythemselves.-Reuven Feuerstein

Learning is a process whereby a human being, or group, or organization, or societycomes to understand and embody nature's patterns.-Tom Johnson.

In due course we arrive, if wit can be said that we ever fully arrive. The truth is there aredestinations beyond destinations and do the confirmed sailor goes on tacking forever.-Richard Bode

...a person and an organization must have goals, take actions to achieve those goals,gather evidence of achievement, study and reflect on the data and from that takeactions again. Thus, they are in a continuous feedback spiral toward continuousimprovement. This is what 'Kaizan' means.-W. Edwards Deming

I am forever on the way-Maxine Greene

Live to learn and you will learn to live

-Portuguese proverb.

Self-production: the characteristic of living systems to continuously renew themselvesand to regulate this process in such a way that the integrity of their structure ismaintained. It is a natural process which supports the quest for structure, processrenewal and integrity.-Margaret Wheatley

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make abeginning. The end is where we start from. We shall not cease from exploration and theend of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and to know the place for thefirst time.-T. S. Eliot

After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines havebeen written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ringhas been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the enduringthings that are left are: the dedication to excellence, the dedication to victory, and thededication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better placein which to live.-Vince Lombardi

Learning to explain phenomena such that one continues to be fascinated by the failureof one's explanations creates a continuing cycle of thinking, that is the crux ofintelligence. It isn't that one person knows more than another, then. In as sense, it isimportant to know less than the next person, or at least to be certain of less, thusenabling more curiosity and less explaining away because one has again encountered awell-known phenomenon. The less you know the more you can find out about, andfinding out for oneself is what intelligence is all about.-Roger Schank

There is only one thing... to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That isthe only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by,never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you.-T.H. White

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content tobegin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.-Francis Bacon

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always revealssomething new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.-Billy Joel

A Ph. D. in living: P is for 'poor in knowledge.' Those who live best realize that they cannever learn enough. H is for 'hungry to learn.' Those who hunger for knowledge willalways find plenty to eat. D is for 'desire to succeed.' Those who desire to learn andimprove, and those who persist in spite of obstacles, will live fully. Realize you're poor inknowledge, become hungry to learn and desire to succeed. Everybody and everyoccasion can become your teacher, and this is the Ph. D. that will open the door ofsuccess.-Charlie Hough

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.-Laurence Peter

The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance.-Baltasar Gracian

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.-John Dewey

Having to know the answers puts in terrible positions from which to learn.-Daniel Kim

It is a sign of strength, not of weakness, to admit that you don't know all the answers.-John P. Lougbrane

Answers given with authority negate the search for truth.-Neil Innes

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.-Truman Capote, Author

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed. Andthe number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can failand keep trying.-Tom Hopkins, Sales Trainer and Author

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

When you enjoy becoming wise, there is hope for you! A bright future lies ahead!-Proverbs 24:13-14

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.-Eartha Kitt

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If youactually learn to think like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.-Barbara Sher, Author

There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take anap.'-Carrie Fisher

The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no 'top.'-Nancy Barcus

Wisdom is knowing how little we know.-Oscar Wilde

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then youwill lose the ability to learn new things and to move forward with your life.-Dr. David Burns, Psychiatrist and Author

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is notlearning from experience.-Archibald McLeish, Poet

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.-Auguste Rodin

To lose is to learn.-Anon.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failuresas from his successes.-John Dewey

Education is learning what you didn't know you didn't know.-George Boas

The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatestunderstanding you could exhibit.-Wayne Dyer, Author and Speaker

Certitude is not the test of certainty.-Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I've learned that you'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on unchartedterritory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun.

-Kirstie Alley

The more the years go by, the less I know. But if you give explanations and understandeverything, then nothing can happen. What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive,I feel that anything can happen.-Anouk Aimee

My work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise Inow enjoy, but chiefly from a craving after knowledge, which I notice resides in me morethan in most other men.-Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Renowned Biologist

No matter how full the river, it still wants to grow. :-Congolese Proverb

To be fond of learning is to be at the gate of knowledge-Chinese Proverb

What you know is just a point of departure. So let's move!-Keorapetse Kgositsile, South African Poet

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.-Henry Ford

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to withdiligence.-Abigail Adams

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student solong as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.-Henry L. Doherty

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase ofknowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.-John Locke

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

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.-Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, French Author

An education isn't how much you've committed to memory, or even how much youknow. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don'tknow.-William Feather, Author and Publisher

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you knowhow, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows, we guess. We may bewrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.-Agnes de Mile

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.-Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.-Japanese Proverb

Of all our human resources, the most precious is the desire to improve.-Anon.

Whoever cares to learn will always find a teacher.-German proverb

If you are not learning, no one will ever let you down.-Robert Anthony

Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again next time.-H.L. Mencken,

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

Dare to be naive.-Buckminster Fuller

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.-Thomas H. Huxley, Biologist

I was still learning when I taught my last class.-Claude M. Fuess, Phillips Academy educator

Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance.-S. Leonard Rubinstein

Until you are willing to be confused about what you already know, what you know willnever become wider, bigger or deeper.-Milton Erikson

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.-John Wooden

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of 4 simple words: I do notknow.-Andre Maurois, author

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or betterthan themselves.-Tyrone Edwards, author

The best people know that there are two phases in every crisis: the one where youmanage it and the other where you learn from it. To succeed you have to do both-M. H. McCormack

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.-Mikhail Baryshnikov, dancer

A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself; indeed, heprogresses in all things by making a fool of himself.-George Bernard Shaw, playwright

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.-John Ruskin

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.-Isaac Asimov

Success is the intelligent use of mistakes in self renewing schools. The moralimperative of the school is for its members to move into their areas of incompetence: ifwe already knew exactly how to do this work, we would not have the purposeless cyclesof educational reform that schools are endlessly caught in. We all need to learn newroles and relationships.-Carl Glickman

The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.-Lord David Cecil, literary critic and educator

The search for the lessons of the new science is still in progress, really in its infancy. Inthis realm, three is a new kind of freedom, where it is more rewarding to explore than toreach conclusions, more satisfying to wonder than to know, and more exciting to searchthan to stay put. Curiosity, not certainty, becomes the saving grace.-Margaret Wheatley, (1999) Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in aChaotic World

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.-Carl Sagan, astronomer

There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.-Jascha Heifetz, violinist

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have to cross the boundary between knowing and not knowing many times beforewe achieve understanding.-David Hawkins

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st Century.-Sydney Joseph Perelman, writer

Why stay on the earth except to grow.-Robert Browning

Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetualinquiry.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.-John J. McCloy, American diplomat and lawyer

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

We need people who are pathological learners, people who have no fear.-Christopher Lochhead, futurist at Scient Corp.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.-John Wooden

Until you are willing to become confused about what you already know, what you knowwill never grow bigger, better, or more useful.-Milton Erickson, psychiatrist and hypnotherapist

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.-Will Rogers

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.-Voltaire

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.-John Wooden, Basketball Coach

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't workout, that's when I've really learned.-Carol Burnett, Actress, comedienne

Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable,but worth all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.-Bertrand Russell

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing intoyour mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot bechanged. The future is yet in your power.-Hugh White, U.S. politician

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason butbecause they are not already common.-John Locke

You're going to make mistakes in life. It's what you do after the mistakes that counts.-Brandi Chastain, soccer star

Failure isn't a crime. Failure to learn from failure is the crime.-Walter Wriston, former chairman of Citicorp

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.-Aristotle

I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught-Winston Churchill

It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from examples.-Fred Hoyle

The years teach what the days never know.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.-Samuel Butler

To be fond of learning is to be near to knowledge.-Tze-sze

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progressstops.-Thomas J. Watson Jr., Computer executive

To teach is to learn.-Japanese Proverb

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

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn .-Don Herold

I am not young enough to know everything.-Oscar Wilde

Learning without thought is labor lost.-Confucius

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off once in a while, or thelight won't come in-Alan Alda

If you want to live creatively, you must be willing to suffer the humiliations of the novice.-Kinji Akagawa , sculptor.

Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise.-Baltasar Gracian, Spanish writer

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.-John F. Kennedy

Teach the tongue to say 'I do not know'.-Maimonides

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.-Karl Popper

A wise man will hear, and will increase learning.-Proverbs 1:5

He is no wise man that cannot play the fool on occasion.-Thomas Fuller

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.-Antisthenes

He who learns but does not think is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in greatdanger.-Confucius

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.-Francis Bacon

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student solong as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.-Henry Doherty, American engineer and investor

The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.-Malcolm Forbes, American publisher

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

I am Still Learning-Michelangelo

I'm still learning about music. The best way to learn is to listen to the audience. Whenyou listen to the audience, they will tell you what they like. I wish these big corporations,instead of telling the audience what they should have, would listen.-Tony Bennett Double Grammy Winner

Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced.-Barbara Tuchman, historian and writer

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, themore places you'll go.-Dr. Seuss, author

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself nowiser than before.-Kurt Vonnegut, novelist and satirist

People who are cocky and arrogant say, 'I know that' and move along. People who areconfident and positive ask themselves,' How good am I at that?' and seek to improve?-Jeffrey Gitomer, author and speaker

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity inevery difficulty.-Winston Churchill

It's never too late to give up your prejudices.-Henry David Thoreau

It is not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn.-Hannah More, British philanthropist

See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clingingto what doesn't work. Dare to let go and you won't lose a thing except for a punishingidea.-Guy Finley, author and speaker

You have to study a great deal to know a little.-Montesquieu

Knowledge creates enthusiasm.-Thomas Watson Sr. I. B. M.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself nowiser than before.-Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist and satirist

Arriving at one point is the starting point to another.-John Dewey

Successful workers will be those who embrace a lifetime of learning. Those who don'twill be left behind.-Rupert Murdoch

All of the top achievers I know are lifelong learners... looking for new skills, insights andideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence.-Denis Waitley

About The Habits of Mind

_Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.-Horace Mann

The sum of one’s intelligence is the sum of one’s habits of mind.-Lauren Resnick

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.-Publicus Syrus, 42 BC

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room forparadoxes.-Maxine Hong Kingston

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.-Jim Ryuh

Learning to explain phenomena such that one continues to be fascinated by the failureof one’s explanations creates a continuing cycle of thinking, that is the crux ofintelligence. It isn’t that one person knows more than another, then. In as sense, it isimportant to know less than the next person, or at least to be certain of less, thusenabling more curiosity and less explaining away because one has again encountered awell-known phenomenon. The less you know the more you can find out about, andfinding out for oneself is what intelligence is all about.-Roger Schank

How much do students really love to learn, to persist, to passionately attack a problemor a task?.....to watch some of their prized ideas explode and to start anew?.....to gobeyond being merely dutiful or long-winded?Let us assess such things.-Grant Wiggins

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life andthe habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.-Gail Sheehy

Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty liesopportunity.-Albert Einstein

A great pleasure in Life is doing What people say you Cannot do.-Tommy John

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.-Francis Bacon

I believe everybody is creative, and everybody is talented. I just don’t think thateverybody is disciplined. I think that’s a rare commodity.-Al Hirschfield

There is no education like adversity.-Benjamin Disraeli

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.-Thaddeus Golas

Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing thehabit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like to do. The successful people don'talways like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.-William Makepeace Thackeray

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.-Kahlil Gabran

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothingon earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude-Thomas Jefferson

Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles throughovercoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles byovercoming challenges and adversity.-Stephen Covey

When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery.-Lord Kelvin

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.-Dr. Joyce Brothers

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on ourcircumstances.-Martha Washington

Anyone can have a good day. The question is what do you do on a bad day. That'swhen you're being tested. In a very tangible sense, a bad day shows your innermostessence more than a good day.-Arthur Golden

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a personwith a certain set of attitudes.-Hugh Downs

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but atissue of habits.-Henri Fredric Amiel

Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.-Harvey Mackay

When we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work and when we nolonger know which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is notbaffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.-Wendell Berry

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because wehave virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. Weare what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.-Aristotle

To make headway, improve your head.-B. C. Forbes

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomesfrozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.-Leonardo da Vinci

Help your children understand that excellence in education cannot be achieved withoutintellectual and moral integrity coupled by hard work and commitment.-National Commission on Excellence in Education

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

The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failingperson doesn't like to do.-Donald Riggs

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.-Benjamin Disraeli

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one hasreached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.-Booker T. Washington

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to yourlife and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will havetruly defeated age.-Sophia Loren

The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties.-Abigail Adams

Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.-Oliver Wendell Holmes

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.-African proverb

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort andconvenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.-Martin Luther King Jr.

Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful ofcourage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.-Bernard Baruch

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may cometomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if youpersevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.-Helen Keller

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, butto change it.-Colin Wilson, Author

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.-Benjamin Disraeli

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.-Carl Jung

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behavewhen we don't know what to do.-John Holt

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of pacific station that great characters areformed.-Abigail Adams

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.-Alfred, Lord Tennyson

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.-Thomas Paine

Character is higher than intellect.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

No brain is stronger than its weakest think.-Thomas L. Masson

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

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeatingthem until they become habits.-Charles J. Givens Businessman, and Author

Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life.- Alex Noble, philosopher

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.-Horace

Habit is ten times nature.-Duke of Wellington

The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Roman ruler

The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives byaltering the attitudes of their minds.-Albert Schweitzer, M. D.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

-Winston Churchill

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun with nettles.-Horace Walpole, Lord Orford

Our self-image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you willautomatically change the other.--Dr. Maxwell Maltz, author

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is theonly morality.-Blaise Pascal

Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fillup your wallet!-Benjamin Franklin

Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You canreplace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of theeffectiveness, happiness and trust-based relationships.-Stephen Covey, author

Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunkthemselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.-Gilbert Highet, educator and author

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

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

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are things that endure. These qualities areso much more important than events.-Vince Lombardi

Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one'sbody and train one's mind.-Anil Ambani, Indian businessman

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to bebroken.-Samuel Johnson,

You can teach students to develop the ability to think reflectively, and you can helpthem understand what this means, but if they are not inclined to do so they never will.-John Dewey (How we Think, 1933)

One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.-Abe Lemmons, former college basketball coach

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

Patience ‒ it defers gratification instead of seeking instant results. SustainableLeadership is patient and persevering. Sustainable school improvement depends onhabits of mind that are not impatient for rapid results.-Hargreaves, A. & Fink, D. (2006). Sustainable leadership. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.- p.259

Intelligence is the habit of persistently trying to understand things and make themfunction better. Intelligence is working to figure things out, varying strategies until aworkable solution is found. Intelligence is knowing what one does (and doesn’t) know,seeking information and organizing that information so that it makes sense and can beremembered. In short, one’s intelligence is the sum of one’ habits of mind.-Lauren Resnick

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outeraspects of their lives.-William James American psychologist and philosopher

Habits are strange. Some are positive and serve us well, and some are negative and dous harm. However, we profit when we remember we entered this world with none andwe will depart with none. As habits form silently, constantly, and relentlessly, theirpervasive impacts are often unnoticed. Yet they control our life. Although productivehabits are invaluable, and bad habits are costly and difficult to break, all the effectivelistening leaders I know spend an inordinate amount of time studying, consciouslyshaping, and refining their habits.-Chuck Maragos

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.-Aldous Huxley,British writer

Challenge your team to build a common language and to be explicit about usingterminology that resonates with everyone in the organization."-Georgia Everse, communications and marketing executive, writing at Harvard Business

Modeling Habits of Mind

_You must be the change you wish to see in the world.-Mahatma Ghandi

You can’t talk your way out of what you’ve behaved yourself into.-Steven Covey

To teach is to learn twice.-Joseph Joubert

Let the beauty you love be what you do.-Jelaluddin Rumi

Learning though imitation is fundamental to many species, including humans. As webecome adults, we have a unique advantage: we can choose whom to imitate. We canalso choose new models to replace the ones we outgrow.-Michael J. Gelb

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.Everyone you meet is your mirror.-Ken Keyes Jr., author

Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.-Robert Fulghum

If your walking isn’t your preaching, there is no point in walking any where to preach.-St. Francis of Assisi

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles but a good deal abouttheir acts.-Horace Mann

Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen.-Marge Piercy

Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.-Felix Adler

It's easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a newway of acting.-Millard Fuller, Founder of Habitat for Humanity

If . . . you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.-Catherine Aird

The way you behave is the way you'll be judged.-Anonymous

Keep in mind always the present you are constructing. It should be the future you want.-Alice walker

Our worth is determined by the good deeds we do, rather than by the fine emotions wefeel.-Elias L, Magoon

.... If real success is to attend the effort to bring a man to a definite position, one mustfirst of all take the pains to find him where he is and begin there. This is the secret of theheart of helping others. Anyone who has not mastered this is himself deluded when heproposes to help others. In order to help another effectively, I must understand what heunderstands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will be of no help to him. If,however, I am disposed to plume myself on my greater understanding, it is because Iam vain or proud, so that at bottom, instead of benefiting him, I want to be admired. Butall true effort to help does not mean to be a sovereign but to be a servant, that to helpdoes not mean to be ambitious but to be patient, that to help means to endure for thetime being the imputation that one is in the wrong and does not understand what theother understands... For to be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such athing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc. No, to be a teacher in the right sense is to be alearner. Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner, put yourself inhis place so that you may understand what he understands and in the way heunderstands it....-Soren Kierkegaard

See the good... BE the good.-Peggy Moretti

If you cannot mould yourself as you would wish, how can you expect other people to beentirely to your liking?-Thomas Kempis

Live your life so that your children can tell their children that you not only stood forsomething wonderful-you acted on it.-Dan Zadra, CEO Compendium, Inc.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.-Lewis Cass

Children have more need of models than of critics.-Carolyn Coats, Author

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordancewith your thinking.-Johann von Goethe

The smartest thing that a person can do is to persistently think the thoughts that areconsistent with the kind of person he or she would like to be.-Brian Tracy, Author

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.-Andrew Carnegie

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it andsee whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.-Carl Jung

Parents who use good communication skills are, at the same time, teaching theirchildren to use good skills. When parents use angry or hostile words, their children dotoo. Often parents cause the very behaviors they don't want in their children. In short,they reap what they sow.-Joe Hasenstab President, Performance Learning Systems

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.-Josh Billings

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught byexample in one week.-Mario Cuomo

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.-Edmund Burke

Doing what we were meant to do creates fun, excitement and contentment in our lives,and invariably, in the lives of the people around us. When you're excited aboutsomething it's contagious.-Mark Victor Hansen, author and speaker

Parents can tell but never teach, unless they practice what they preach.-Arnold Glasow

I never perceive of myself as a hero of any kind. I'm just a baseball player. But if you arein a position to influence people's lives, why not do all you can to cast it in a positivelight.-Cal Ripken Jr.

Peace is not achieved by controlling nations, but mastering our thoughts.

-John Harricharan, author

Be big: Think big. Act big. Dream big.-Conrad Hilton

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.-Mahatma Gandhi

Example has more followers than reason.-Christian Nevell Bovee, author and lawyer

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.-Albert Einstein

I want to be a good person and live my life the right way, keeping in mind that theremight be a little kid who's watching what I do.-Rebecca Lobo, U.S. Olympic basketball player

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have neverfailed to imitate them.-James Baldwin

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.-John Cotton Dana, Librarian and museum director