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I am a valuable worthwhile human being. If you suddenly discovered you only had six months to live, what would you do? -Wayne DyerIt ain't who you are, it's what you are. -Earl BlanchardThe economic fundamental is labor. Labor is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men. It is men's labor that makes the harvest what it is. That is the economic fundamental; every one of us is working with material which we did not and could not create, but which was presented to usby Nature. -Henry FordThe primary functions are agriculture, manufacture, and transportation. Community life is impossible without them. They hold the world together. Raising things,making things, and earning things are as primitive as human need and yet as mod

ern as anything can be. -Henry FordThat some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is justencouragement to industry and enterprise. -Abraham Lincoln

Precocious powers of observation and retention. -Niel Baldwin, Edison BiographerA child educated only at school is an uneducated child. -George SantayanaThe test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. -Jacques BarzunThe essence of a higher education is the search for ideas. -PlatoEducation is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire. -William Butler YeatsThe philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. -Abraham Lincoln

Our students are lugging home heavy texts full of disconnected facts that neither educate nor motivate them. -George NelsonIn the teaching of history, we find a certain apathy as history has been replaced by courses in social studies and these diminish the role of historic figures such as George Washington. Courses concentrate on great movements and social forces, not the role individuals play in making history or causing certain events. .. Personalities and heroic actions no longer are taught as part of history. -D

onald J. SeneseWhat is necessary is an understanding of how this child feels and thinks, how heinterprets his situation, and not what his parents think. -Alfred Adler

My most important job is to raise saints, not scholars. I feel that the scholarly thing happens along the way. -Pattie Kelley-HuffI most sincerely wish that some more liberal plan might be laid and executed for

the benefit of the rising generation, and that our new Constitution may be distinguished for encouraging learning and virtue. -Abigail AdamsThe educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. -AristotleEducation is the best provision for the journey to old age. -AristotleThe ideal school situation is one in which the spirit of inquiry and investigation is constantly encouraged and in which children are developing ideals of service by virtue of their activity. -George Drayton Strayer and Naomi NorsworthyIn this state, there is nothing more important than providing our children witha strong and sure educational foundation. Education is poverty's mortal enemy. It is the number one ticket out of poverty. Education opens the door to better jobs and is the foundation for successful economic development. -Kathleen BlancoIt would be nice to win the national championship every year. But what really ma

tters is that the kids compete hard and succeed off the field as well. -Skip BertmanAn emotion can neither be hindered or removed except by a contrary and strongeremotion. -SpinozaWho, offered magic insists on logic? -Richard Norton SmithMake no mistake about it. Emotion runs the show in sport. Some emotions are empowering and free your talent and skill; other emotions are disempowering and effectively lock your potential out. Empowering emotions are those associated with challenge, drive, confidence, determination, positive fight, energy, spirit, persistence and fun. Disempowering emotions are those associated with feelings of fa

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tigue, helplessness, insecurity, low energy, weakness, fear and confusion. -James E. LoehrWhen dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity. -Dale CarnegieThe emotions, as a rule, are in excess and detain the mind in the contemplationof one object so that it cannot think of others. -SpinozaYou have to take emotions out of the equation. Know what your downside is. Whenyou've reached it, get out of the house, work out, exercise your mind and muscles. -Greg WascherThe connection between thoughts and emotions is very real. -James E. Loehr, Ed.D.Is it possible to create your own emotions? How? Does auto-suggestion accomplishthis? Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal t

hat is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might havebeen. -William Hazlitt

I believe the theme of 'Of Human Bondage' is that emotions rule the intellect and that all of us are victums of our heart. -Judy DeltonThe itellect is always fooled by the heart. -La RochefoucauldPainting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. -Pablo PicassoIf you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. -Edward HopperAn intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched asthe case may be. -Albert Camus

Seeling's believing, but feeling's the truth. -Thomas FullerAt the deepest level all decisions are emotional. -Guerilla SellingAttitudes are more important than facts. -Dr. Karl MenningerEmpathy is "crawling into the hide of the other." -Gerry SpenceYou never really understand a person until you consider things from his point ofview . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. -Harper Lee

Every day I tried to get into the skin of every person in the place. -Jack WelchAbilities wither under faultfinding, blossom under encouragement. -Donald A. Laird