Friday, December 20th, 2013

"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams." ~~   John Barrymore




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Thursday, December 19th, 2013

"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told." ~~   Victor Hugo






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Wednesday, December 18th, 2013

"Believe in miracles." ~~ Regina Brett




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Tuesday, December 17th, 2013

"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark." ~~ Victor Hugo, Les Miserables




 

Notice!

Notice! After Fri December 20th, I will be taking some vacation time from the thought of the day. I will return on Jan 6th.

Monday, December 16th, 2013

"People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong." ~~ Bill Vaughan




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Friday, December 13th, 2013

"Gardens are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful," and sitting in the shade." ~~ Rudyard Kipling





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Thursday, December 12th, 2013

"When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees." ~~   Joseph Joubert





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Wednesday, December 11th, 2013

"If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble." ~~ Bob Hope




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Monday, December 9th, 2013

"Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." ~~ Charles Dickens




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Friday, December 6th, 2013

"Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special." ~~ Regina Brett




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Thursday, December 5th, 2013

"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties." ~~ Harry S. Truman




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Wednesday, December 4th, 2013

"No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, and show up." ~~ Regina Brett




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Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013

"When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile." ~~ Regina Brett




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Wednesday, November 27th, 2013

"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." ~~ Thomas A. Edison




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Tuesday, November 26th, 2013

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual." ~~ Arthur Koestler






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INFO for Thurs

Due to Thurs being Thanksgiving, I will not have a quote that day.

Monday, November 25th, 2013

"Information cannot replace education." ~~ Earl Kiole

Friday, November 22nd, 2013

"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work." ~~   Mark Twain




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Thursday, November 21st, 2013

"You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you." ~~ Joseph Joubert




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Wednesday, November 20th, 2013

"Take a deep breath. It calms the mind." ~~ Regina Brett




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Tuesday, November 19th, 2013

"To control and sort young people for the sake of institutional efficiency is to crush the human spirit." ~~   Ron Miller




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Monday, November 18th, 2013

"It is the mind that makes the body." ~~ Sojourner Truth




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Friday, November 15th, 2013

"Frame every so-called disaster with these words: "In five years, will this matter?" ~~ Regina Brett




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Thursday, November 14th, 2013

"Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs." ~~ Rudyard Kipling






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Wednesday, November 13th, 2013

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." ~~ Helen Keller




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Tuesday, November 12th, 2013

"The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running." ~~ Simone Weil




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Monday, November 11th, 2013

"Take a deep breath, count to ten, and tackle each task one step at a time." ~~ Linda Shalaway




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Friday, November 8th, 2013

"However good or bad a situation is, it will change." ~~ Regina Brett




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Thursday, November 7th, 2013

"If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it." ~~ Regina Brett






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Wednesday, November 6th, 2013

"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education." ~~ Charlotte Bronte






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A new blog I have

http://eldergardnermissionblog.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, November 5th, 2013

"You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree." ~~ Regina Brett




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Monday, November 4th, 2013

"It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top." ~~ Virginia Woolf




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New Blog

http://eldergardnermissionblog.blogspot.com/

My son is on an LDS mission. Check out his blog.

Friday, November 1st, 2013

"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got." ~~ Janis Joplin





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Thursday, October 31st, 2013

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." ~~ Andy Warhol





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Wednesday, October 30th, 2013

"Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen." ~~ Lee Iacocca




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Tuesday, October 29th, 2013

"Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere." ~~ Regina Brett




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Monday, October 28th, 2013

"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse." ~~ Rudyard Kipling




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Friday, October 25th, 2013

"It's not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive." ~~ Louise Bourgeois




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Thursday, October 24th, 2013

"I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks." ~~ Scout Finch in Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird", Chapter 23




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Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013

"Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about." ~~ Regina Brett




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Tuesday, October 22nd 2013

"Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others cannot do or will not do."~~   Amelia Earhart





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Monday, October 21st, 2013

"Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. " ~~ Samuel Ullman





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Friday, October 18th, 2013

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." ~~ Henry B. Adams





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Thursday, October 17th, 2013

"The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration. " ~~ Claude Monet




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Wednesday, October 16th, 2013

"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience." ~~ George Washington




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Tuesday, October 15th, 2013

"Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind." ~~ Marva Collins




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Monday, October 14th, 2013

"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. " ~~ Sydney J. Harris




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Friday, October 11th, 2013

"Whatever you can do, or dream,  you can begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." ~~   Goethe




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Thursday, October 10th, 2013

"Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time." ~~  Steven Wright




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Wednesday, October 9th, 2013

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits." ~~ Thomas A. Edison




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Tuesday, October 8th, 2013

"Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know." ~~ Louisa May Alcott




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Monday, October 7th, 2013

"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation." ~~ Brian Tracey




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Friday, October 4th, 2013

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm." ~~ Abraham Lincoln




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Thursday, October 3rd, 2013

"It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come. " ~~ Dalai Lama




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Wednesday, October 2nd 2013

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




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Tuesday, October 1st, 2013

"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. " ~~   Francois de La Rochefoucauld






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Monday, September 30th, 2013

"If you don't know where you are going, how can you expect to get there?" ~~ Basil S. Walsh




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Friday, September 27th, 2013

"Education is the best provision for old age." ~~ Aristotle




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Thursday, September 26th, 2013

"Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault." ~~ David M. Burns




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Wednesday, September 25th, 2013

"I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time." ~~ Charles Dickens




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Tuesday, September 24th, 2013

"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind." ~~   F. Scott Fitzgerald




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Monday, September 23rd, 2013

"Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire." ~~ W. B. Yeats




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Friday, September 20th, 2013

"Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something different." ~~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi




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Thursday, September 19th, 2013

"Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing." ~~ Napoleon Hill




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Wednesday, September 18th, 2013

"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." ~~ George Santayana




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Tuesday, September 17th, 2013

"Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you that mine are still greater."~~   Albert Einstein






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Monday, September 16th, 2013

"A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life." ~~ Reverend Edward A. Malloy




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Friday, September 13th, 2013

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." ~~   Martin Luther King, Jr




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Thursday, September 12th, 2013

"I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude." ~~ Benjamin Disraeli




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Wednesday, September 11th, 2013

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." ~~   Mark Twain




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Tuesday, September 10th, 2013

"If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it." ~~ Sojourner Truth

Monday, September 9th, 2013

"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity." ~~ Louis Pasteur




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Friday, September 6th, 2013

“Problems worthy of attack, prove their worth by hitting back.” ~~ Piet Hein




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Thursday, September 5th, 2013

"Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand." ~~ Neil Armstrong

Wednesday, September 4th, 2013

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. " ~~   Bertrand Russell




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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2013

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




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Friday, August 30th, 2013

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




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Thursday, August 29th, 2013

"It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly." ~~ Claude Monet




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Wednesday, August 28th, 2013

"Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life." ~~ David M. Burns





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Tuesday, August 27th, 2013

"If you want to do it, you can do it. The question is, do you want to do it?  Nellie Bly




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Thursday, August 22nd, 2013

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." ~~ Mother Teresa




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Wednesday August 21st, 2013

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




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Tuesday, August 20th, 2013

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you." ~~ Carl Sandburg




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Monday, August 19th, 2013

"The true secret to genius is in creativity, not in technical mechanics." ~~ Al Seckel




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Friday, August 16th, 2013

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." ~~   Henry David Thoreau




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Thursday, August 15th, 2013

"Who shall kindle others must himself glow." ~~   Italian Proverb




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Wednesday, August 14th, 2013

"There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it." ~~ Fyodor Dostoevsky




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Tuesday, August 13th, 2013

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




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Monday, August, 12th, 2013

"We all need someone who inspires us to do better than we know how." ~~ Anonymous




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Friday, August 9th, 2013

"In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it." ~~   Elbert Hubbard




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Thursday, August 8th, 2013

"No man can use his brain to think for another." ~~   Ayn Rand






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Wednesday, August 7th, 2013

"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat." ~~ Napolean Hill




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Tuesday, August 6th, 2013

"Does thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of." ~~ Benjamin Franklin






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Monday, August 5th, 2013

"You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes." ~~ A. A. Milne




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Friday, August 2nd, 2013

"Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber." ~~   Elbert Hubbard






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Thursday, August 1st, 2013

"The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon." ~~ Anonymous




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Wednesday, July 31st, 2013

"Ask the young. They know everything." ~~   Joseph Joubert




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Tuesday, July 30th, 2013

"The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties." ~~ Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams, January 19, 1780




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Monday, July 29th, 2013

"I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities." ~~ Marva Collins




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Friday, July 26th, 2013

"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age." ~~   Victor Hugo




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Thursday, July 25th, 2013

"Our life is  frittered away with detail. Simplify.  Simplify." ~~   Henry David Thoreau




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Wednesday, July 24th, 2013

"Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture." ~~ Amelia Earhart




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Monday, July 22nd, 2013

"Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it." ~~ Tallulah Bankhead




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Friday, July 19th, 2013

"When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. " ~~  Francois de La Rochefoucauld




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Thursday, July 18th, 2013

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." ~~Richard Feynman




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Wednesday, July 17th, 2013

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." ~~ Milton Berle




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Tuesday, July 16th, 2013

"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind." ~~   Albert Einstein




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Monday, July 15th, 2013

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




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Friday, July 12th, 2013

"Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose." ~~ Charles Du Bos




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Thursday, July 11th, 2013

"To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." ~~   Elbert Hubbard




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Wednesday, July 10th, 2013

"Nothing happens unless first a dream." ~~ Carl Sandburg




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Tuesday, July 9th, 2013

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




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Monday, July 8th, 2013

"Learning to teach is a bigger job than universities, schools, experience, or personal disposition alone can accomplish." ~~ Sharon Feiman-Nemser






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Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013

"There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot." ~~ Steven Wright




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Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." ~~ T. S. Eliot




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Monday, July 1st, 2013

"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson




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Tuesday, June 25th, 2013

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." ~~ Thomas A. Edison




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Monday, June 24th, 2013

"In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high." ~~   Henry David Thoreau




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Friday, June 21st, 2013

"Success is a choice." ~~  Rick Pitino, Boston Celtics basketball coach




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Thursday, June 20th, 2013

"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." ~~ Abraham Lincoln




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Wednesday, June 19th, 2013

"It is books that are the key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can." ~~ Jane Hamilton




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Monday, June 17th, 2013

“When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work” ~~ George Bernard Shaw





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Friday, Junw 14th, 2013

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." ~~   Mark Twain




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Thursday, June 13th, 2013

"I think the reward for conformity is everyone likes you but yourself. " ~~ Rita Mae Brown






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Wednesday, June 12th, 2013

"When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either." ~~  Leo Burnett




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Tuesday, June 11th, 2013

"There is a brilliant child locked inside every student." ~~ Marva Collins




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Monday, June 10th, 2013

"Decide whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying." ~~   Amelia Earhart




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Friday, June 7th, 2013

"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier." ~~ Colin Powell




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Thursday, June 6th, 2013

"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend." ~~   Henry David Thoreau




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Tuesday, June 4th, 2013

"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." ~~ Dr. Seuss




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Monday, June 3rd, 2013

"Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person." ~~ David M. Burns





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Friday, May 31st, 2013

"Decide whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying." ~~   Amelia Earhart




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Thursday, May 30th, 2013

"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul." ~~ Joseph Addison




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Wednesday, May 29th, 2013

"They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel." ~~ Carl W.Buechner




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Tuesday, May 28th, 2013

"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing." ~~   Stephen R. Covey




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Thursday, May 23rd, 2013

"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later." ~~   Og Mandino




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Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013

"Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved." ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson




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Tuesday, May 21st, 2013

"I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true." ~~   Debi Thomas




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Monday, May 20th, 2013

"I am still learning." ~~   Michelangelo




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Friday May 17th, 2013

"An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it." ~~ Bill Bernbach






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Wednesday, May 15th, 2013

"Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence." ~~ Hans Christian Andersen




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Tuesday, May 14th, 2013

"Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done." ~~   Amelia Earhart




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Monday, May 13th, 2013

"Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality." ~~ Alfred Painter




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Friday, May 10th, 2013

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." ~~ Sir. Francis Bacon




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Thursday, May 9th, 2013

"Dreams are necessary to life." ~~   Anais Nin






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Wednesday, May 8th, 2013

"A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle." ~~ Erin Majors




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Tuesday, May 7th, 2013

"Dreams are the touchstones of our character." ~~   Henry David Thoreau




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Monday, May 6th, 2013

"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?" ~~ Steven Wright




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Friday, May 3rd, 2013

"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say." ~~   F. Scott Fitzgerald




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Thursday, May 2nd, 2013

"We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream." ~~   Roald Dahl




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Wednesday, May 1st, 2013

"Life is the path you beat while you walk it." ~~   Antonio Machado



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Tuesday, April 30th, 2013

"Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in that action."~~ Mother Teresa



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Friday, April 26th, 2013

"Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself." ~~ Chinese proverb




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Thursday, April 25th, 2013

"Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door." ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson




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Wednesday, April 24th, 2013

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come." ~~ Victor Hugo

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013

"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang best." ~~   Henry Van Dyke




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Monday, April 22nd, 2013

"Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity." ~~ Samuel Ullman




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Friday, April 19th, 2013

"I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps." ~~ Thomas Edison




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Thursday, April 18th, 2013

"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous." ~~ Confucius




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Wednesday, April 17th, 2013

"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive that is Youer than You!" ~~ Dr. Seuss




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Tuesday, April 16th, 2013

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




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Monday, April 15th, 2013

"Eighty percent of success is showing up." ~~ Woody Allen




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Friday, April 12th, 2012

"It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner." ~~ Jonas Salk




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Thursday, April 11th, 2013

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't." ~~ Anatole France




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Wednesday, April 10th, 2013

"It's not enough to be busy... the question is: what are we busy about?" ~~   Henry David Thoreau




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Tuesday, April 9th, 2013

"The future belongs to the beauty of their dreams." ~~   Eleanor Roosevelt




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Monday, April 8th, 2013

"If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done." ~~ Ludwig Wittgenstein




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Thursday, March 28th, 2013

"The highest result of education is tolerance." ~~ Helen Keller




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Wednesday, March 27th, 2013

"Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in that action."~~ Mother Teresa




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Tuesday, March 26th, 2013

“An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.” ~~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir




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Monday, March 25th, 2013

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." ~~ Thomas A. Edison




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Friday, March 22nd, 2013

"Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality." ~~ Jonas Salk







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Thursday, March 21st, 2013

"How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 --and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?" ~~ Arthur C. Clarke




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Wednesday, March 20th, 2013

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." ~~ John F. Kennedy




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Tuesday, March 19th, 2013

"In an effective classroom students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how." ~~ Harry K. Wong




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Monday, March 18th, 2013

"Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought." ~~ Napoleon Hill




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Friday, March 15th, 2013

"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself." Galileo






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Thursday, March 14th, 2013

"When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing." ~~   Pablo Picasso




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Wednesday, March 13th, 2013

"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy." ~~   Leo Buscaglia




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Tuesday, March 12th, 2013

"After all is said and done, more is said than done." ~~   Aesop




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Monday, March 11th, 2013

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil." ~~ C. S. Lewis





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Friday, March 8th, 2013

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




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Thursday, March 7th, 2013

"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company." ~~ George Washington




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Wednesday, March 6th, 2013

"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards." ~~ Anatole France




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Tuesday, March 5th, 2013

"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it." ~~ Dennis P. Kimbro





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Monday, March 4th, 2013

"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric." ~~ Bertrand Russell




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Friday, March 1st, 2013

"It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn." ~~ John Bradshaw




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Thursday, February 28th, 2013

"Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation."~~ Jack Nicklaus




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Wednesday, February 27th, 2013

"A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him." ~~ James Baldwin




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Tuesday, February 26th, 2013

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




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Monday, February 25th, 2013

"There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning." ~~ Jiddu Krishnamurti




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Friday, February 22nd, 2013

"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." ~~   Benjamin Franklin









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Thursday, February 21st, 2013

"He who wonders, discovers that this in itself is wonder." ~~ M.C. Escher




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Wednesday, February 20th, 2013

"Stupidity has a knack of getting its way." ~~ Albert Camus




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Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

"This bridge will take you halfway there -- the last few steps you will have to take yourself." ~~  Shel Silverstein






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Monday, February 18th, 2013

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." ~~ John F. Kennedy




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Friday, February 15th, 2013

"The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today." ~~   Harriet Beecher Stowe




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Thursday, February 14th, 2013

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. " ~~ Rita Mae Brown




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Wednesday, February 13th, 2013

"The wisest mind has something yet to learn." ~~   George Santayana




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Tuesday, February 12th, 2013

"I want freedom for the full expression of my personality." ~~   Mahatma Gandhi





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Monday, February 11th, 2013

"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star." ~~   Confucius




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Friday, February 8th, 2013

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." ~~ Mahatma Gandhi




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Thursday, February 7th, 2013

"Humor is mankind's greatest blessing." ~~   Mark Twain




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Wednesday, February 6th, 2013

"He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet." ~~ Joseph Joubert






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Tuesday, February 5th, 2013

"You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket." ~~ John Adams






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Friday, February 1st, 2013

"Be in charge of your own destiny, or some one else will." ~~   Jack Welch




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Thursday, January 31st, 2013

"Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace." ~~   Amelia Earhart




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Wednesday, January 30th, 2013

"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." ~~ M.C. Escher




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Tuesday, January 29th, 2013

"You can fool too many of the people too much of the time." ~~   James Thurber




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Monday, January 28th, 2013

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us or spare us." ~~   Marcel Proust




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Friday, January 25th, 2013

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." ~~ Plutarch






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Thursday, January 24th, 2013

"Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." ~~ Scott Adams




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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013

"Only the educated are free." ~~ Epictetus




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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013

"Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character." ~~ Hosea Ballou




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Friday, January 18th, 2013

"There is no education like adversity." ~~ Benjamin Disraeli




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Thursday, January 17th, 2013

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




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Wednesday, January 16th, 2013

"Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture." ~~ Amelia Earhart




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Tuesday, January 15th, 2013

"You always pass failure on the way to success." ~~ Mickey Rooney




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Monday, January 14th, 2013

"If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble." ~~Bob Hope






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Friday, January 11th, 2013

"Sooner or later we all quote our mothers." ~~ Bern Williams






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Thursday, January 10th, 2013

"Take a deep breath, count to ten, and tackle each task one step at a time." ~~ Linda Shalaway






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Wednesday, January 9th, 2013

"A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money." ~~ Unknown




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Tuesday, January 8th, 2013

"Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach." ~~ Albert Einstein




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Monday, January 7th, 2013

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves." ~~ William Shakespeare




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Friday, January 4th, 2013

"Today is yesterday's pupil." ~~ Benjamin Franklin




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Thursday, January 3rd, 2013

"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." ~~ Benjamin Franklin




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Wednesday, Jan 2nd, 2013

"Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators." ~~ Albert Camus




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