Tuesday, December 23rd, 2014

"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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Monday, December 22nd, 2014

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




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Friday, December 19th, 2014

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

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Thursday, December 18th, 2014

"I define creativity as the process of having original ideas that have value." ~~ Sir Ken Robinson




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Wednesday, December 17th, 2014

"Be yourself. Who else is better qualified? You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." ~~ Beverly Sills




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Tuesday, December 16th, 2014

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




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Monday, December 15th, 2014

"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, December 12th, 2014

"We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open." ~~ Harry Edwards




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Thursday, December 11th, 2014

"You must want to be a butterfly so badly, you are willing to give up being a caterpillar." ~~ Sekou Andrews, at TEDx San Diego 2011

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Wednesday, December 10th, 2014

"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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Monday, December 8th, 2014

"One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in." ~~   Wayne Gretzky




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Friday, December 5th, 2014

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




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Thursday, December 4th, 2014

"Joy is not in things! It is in us!" ~~   Benjamin Franklin




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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men." ~~ John F. Kennedy 




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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars." ~~   Les Brown




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Monday, December 1st, 2014

"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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Wednesday, November 26th, 2014

"Education is more than filling a child with facts. It starts with posing questions." ~~ D.T. Max





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Tuesday, November 25th, 2014

"He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law." ~~




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Monday, November 24th, 2014

"If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams." ~~   Les Brown




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Friday, November 21st, 2014

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




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Thursday, November 20th, 2014

"If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem." ~~ Jiddu Krishnamurti




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Wednesday, November 19th, 2014

"The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty -- it is the effectiveness of the teacher." ~~ Harry K. Wong




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Tuesday, November 18th, 2014

"Upon the subject of education ... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in." ~~ Abraham Lincoln




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Monday, November 17th, 2014

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




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Friday, November 14th, 2014

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





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Thursday, November 13th, 2014

“If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.” ~~ Dalai Lama

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Wednesday, November 12th, 2014

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




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Tuesday, November 11th, 2014

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




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Monday, November 10th, 2014

"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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Friday, November 7th, 2014

"There is always a time for gratitude and new beginnings." ~~ J. Robert Moskin




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Thursday, November 6th, 2014

"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up." ~~ Robert Frost




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Wednesday, November 5th, 2014

"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read." ~~   Mark Twain




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Tuesday, November 4th, 2014

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




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Monday, November 3rd, 2014

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




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Friday, October 31st, 2014

"Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he learns and the way he understands it." ~~ Soren Kierkegaard

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Thursday, October 30th, 2014

"I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.~~ Martha Washington

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Wednesday, October 29th, 2014

"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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Tuesday, October 28th, 2014

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




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Monday, October 27th, 2014

"Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves." ~~ Sir Ken Robinson




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Friday, October 24th, 2014

"I'm through accepting limits 'cuz someone says they're so. Some things I cannot change but 'till I try, I'll never know!" ~~ Elphaba in the song Defying Gravity from the musical Wicked (music and lyrics written by Stephen Schwartz)




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Thursday, October 23rd, 2014

"The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another." ~~ Marva Collins




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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014

"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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Tuesday, October 21st, 2014

"Education costs money, but then so does ignorance." ~~ Claus Moser




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Monday, October 20th, 2014

"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field." ~~ Niels Bohr





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Friday, October 17th, 2014

"You must lose a fly to catch a trout." ~~ George Herbert




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Thursday, October 16th, 2014

"Home is the nicest word there is." ~~ Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Wednesday, October 15th, 2014

"As a teacher I feel I have a moral obligation to help the children in my classroom grow toward becoming full human beings and to feel successful." ~~ Jean Medick




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Tuesday, October 14th, 2014

"The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times." ~~ Martha Beck




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Monday, October 13th, 2014

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




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Friday, October 10th, 2014

"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated." ~~ Alec Bourne




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Thursday, October 9th, 2014

"Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going. ~~ Rita Mae Brown




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Wednesday, October 8th, 2014

"And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all." ~~ Maurice Sendak (from "Where the Wild Things Are")




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Tuesday, October 7th, 2014

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” ~~ Dr. Seuss

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Monday, October 6th, 2014

"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition." ~~ Jacques Barzun





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Friday, October 3rd, 2014

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." ~~   Albert Einstein




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Thursday, October 2nd, 2014

"Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence." ~~ Unknown




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Wednesday, October 1st, 2014

"Children need models rather than critics." ~~ Joseph Joubert




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Tuesday, September 30th, 2014

"Every student can learn. Just not on the same day or in the same way." ~~ George Evans




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Monday, September 29th, 2014

"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself." ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson




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Friday, September 26th, 2014

"Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides." ~~ Rita Mae Brown




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Thursday, September 25th, 2014

"Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards." ~~   Elbert Hubbard




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Wednesday, September 24th, 2014

"Inaction saps the vigor of the mind." ~~ Leonardo da Vinci




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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014

"A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discoverers are among them, as comets amongst the stars." ~~ Linnaeus




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Monday, September 22nd, 2014

"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory." ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson




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Friday, September 19th 2014

"Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love." ~~ Claude Monet




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Thursday, September 18th, 2014

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." ~~ Abraham Maslow





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Wednesday, September 17th, 2014

"Your children get only one childhood. Make it memorable." ~~ Regina Brett




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Tuesday, September 16th, 2014

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, just as much to stand up to our friends.” ~~ Albus Dumbledore, from “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone” by J.K. Rowling




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Monday, September 15th, 2014

"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge." ~~   Elbert Hubbard




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Friday, September 12th, 2014

"All that truly matters in the end is that you loved." ~~ Regina Brett

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Thursday, September 11th, 2014

"Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does -- except wrinkles." ~~ Abigail Van Buren




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Wednesday, September 10th, 2014

"The important thing is not to stop questioning." ~~ Albert Einstein




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Tuesday, September 9th, 2014

"Life isn't fair, but it's still good." ~~ Regina Brett




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Monday, September 8th, 2014

"Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present." ~~ Regina Brett




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Friday, September 5th, 2014

"A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ." ~~ John Steinbeck

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Thursday, September 4th, 2014

"Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful." ~~ Regina Brett




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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014

"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." ~~ Pablo Picasso




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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014

"A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on." ~~ Carl Sandburg




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Monday, September 1st, 2014

"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God." ~~ Leo Buscaglia

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Friday, August 29th, 2014

"There is nothing like a dream to create the future." ~~   Victor Hugo

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Thursday, August 28th, 2014

“Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.” ~~ Samuel Ullman




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Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

"The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration." ~~ Allan Bloom




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Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

"Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values." ~~ Dalai Lama




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Monday, August 25th, 2014

"The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but has no vision." ~~ Helen Keller




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Friday, August 22nd, 2014

"It's not what is poured into a student, but what is planted." ~~ Linda Conway




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Thursday, August 21st, 2014

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

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Wednesday, August 20th, 2014

"Action is the real measure of intelligence." ~~ Napoleon Hill




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Tuesday, August 19th, 2014

"If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us we'd be millionaires." ~~Abigail Van Buren




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Monday, August 18th, 2014

"There was never a good war or a bad peace." ~~ Benjamin Franklin



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Friday, August 15th, 2014

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. " ~~ Abraham Lincoln




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Thursday, August 14th, 2014

"Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back." ~~   Chinese Proverb




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Wednesday, August 13th, 2014

"If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back." ~~ Regina Brett




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Tuesday, August 12th, 2014

"Spoon feeding, in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon." ~~ E.M. Forster




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Monday, August 11th, 2014

"When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer." ~~ Regina Brett

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Friday, August 8th, 2014

"Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people." ~~ Albert Einstein




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Thursday, August 7th, 2014

"Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'" ~~ Sydney J. Harris





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Wednesday, August 6th, 2014

"If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders." ~~ Abigail Van Buren




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Tuesday, August 5th, 2014

"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings." ~~ Eric Hoffer




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Monday, August 4th, 2014

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson




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Reminder FYI

This will be my last posting until Aug. Have a great summer!

Friday, May 30th, 2014

"In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock." ~~ Thomas  Jefferson




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Thursday, May 29th, 2014

"My heart is singing for joy this morning. A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed." ~~ Anne Sullivan




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Tuesday, May 27th, 2014

"Children aren't happy without something to ignore, and that's what parents were created for." ~~ Ogden Nash




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Thursday, May 22nd, 2014

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




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FYI

FYI - starting in June I will be taking a break for the summer. I will start back (hopefully)first part of Aug.

Wednesday, May 21st, 2014

"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are far more than our abilities." ~~ Albus Dumbledore to Harry Potter, by J. K. Rowling in "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"




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Tuesday, May 20th, 2014

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." ~~ Aristotle




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Monday, May 19th, 2014

"What's right isn't always popular, and what's popular isn't always right." ~~   Mahatma Gandhi



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Friday, May 16th, 2014

"Some folks succeed because they're destined to, but most succeed because they're determined to." ~~ Roy Reiman




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Thursday, May 15th, 2014

"Inside all of us is a Wild Thing" ~~ Maurice Sendak in "Where the Wild Things Are"




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Wednesday, May 14th, 2014

"What really matters is what you do with what you have." ~~   H. G. Wells




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Tuesday, May 13th, 2014

"If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers." ~~ Maya Angelou




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Monday, May 12th, 2014

"Why shouldn't art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world." ~~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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Friday, May 9th, 2014

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you'll go." ~~ Dr. Seuss




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Thursday, May 8th, 2014

"Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying." ~~ Regina Brett




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Wednesday, May 7th, 2014

"If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all." ~~ Thumper's father




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Tuesday, May 6th, 2014

"Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch." ~~ Regina Brett




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Monday, May 5th, 2014

"Only the educated are free." ~~ Epictetus




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Friday, May 2nd, 2014

"The most important sex organ is the brain." ~~ Regina Brett




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Thursday, May 1st, 2014

"Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it." ~~ Steven Wright

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Wednesday, April 30th, 2014

"The most effective way to do it, is to do it." ~~ Amelia Earhart




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Tuesday, April 29th, 2014

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."~~   A. A. Milne




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Monday, April 28th, 2014

"Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need." ~~ Regina Brett




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Friday, April 25th, 2014

"Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind." ~~ Lionel Hampton




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Thursday, April 24th, 2014

"Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience." ~~ Jonas Salk




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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." ~~ Plato




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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2014

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." ~~ Mark Twain




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Friday, April 18th, 2014

"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. " ~~ Elvis Presley




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Thursday, April 17th, 2014

"God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers." ~~ Rudyard Kipling




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Wednesday, April 16th, 2014

"Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple." ~~ Regina Brett




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Tuesday, April 15th, 2014

"Overprepare, then go with the flow." ~~ Regina Brett




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Monday, April 14th, 2014

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." ~~ Nelson Mandela





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Friday, April 11th, 2014

"It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well." ~~ Rene Descartes




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Thursday, April 10th, 2014

"The kids in our classroom are infinitely more significant than the subject matter we teach." ~~ Meladee McCarty




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Wednesday, April 9th, 2014

"Life is too short to waste time hating anyone." ~~ Regina Brett




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Tuesday, April 8th, 2014

"I teach therefore I am." ~~ Anonymous





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Monday, April 7th, 2014

"It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person." ~~ Edith Hamilton






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Friday, April 4th, 2014

"The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway." ~~ Kent M. Keith






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Thursday, April 3rd, 2014

"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen." ~~ John Steinbeck






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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014

"Chance favors the prepared mind" ~~ Louis Pasteur






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Tuesday, April 1st, 2014

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." ~~ Ray Bradbury




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Monday, March 31st, 2014

"Have some fire. Be unstoppable. Be a force of nature!" ~~ Cristina Yang




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Friday, March 28th, 2014

"There must be more to life than having everything." ~~ Maurice Sendak






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Thursday, March 27th, 2014

"Time heals almost everything. Give time time." ~~ Regina Brett




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Wednesday, March 26th, 2014

"Truth is powerful and it prevails." ~~ Sojourner Truth






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Tuesday, March 25th, 2014

"Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives." ~~ Maya Angelou




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Monday, March 24th, 2014

"You can get through anything if you stay put in today." ~~ Regina Brett




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Friday, March 21st, 2014

“I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.” ~~ Margaret Thatcher




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Thursday, March 20th, 2014

"It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else." ~~ Regina Brett






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Wednesday March 19th, 2014

“Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.” ~~ Dr. Seuss




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Tuesday, March 18th, 2014

"I believe that every person is born with talent." ~~ Maya Angelou




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Monday, March 17th, 2014

"All kids are gifted. Some just open their packages earlier than others." ~~ Michael Carr




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Friday, March 14th, 2014

"All experience is an arch to build upon. " ~~ Henry B. Adams




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Thursday, March 13th, 2014

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






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Wednesday, March 12th, 2014

"There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots, the other is wings." ~~ Hodding Carter




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Tuesday, March 11th, 2014

"Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does." ~~ Regina Brett




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Monday, March 10th, 2014

"It's OK to let your children see you cry." ~~ Regina Brett




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Friday, March 7th, 2014

"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." ~~   Mahatma Gandhi




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Thursday, March 6th, 2014

"Children learn to smile from their parents." ~~ Shinichi Suzuki




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Wednesday, March 5th, 2014

"No one is in charge of your happiness except you." ~~ Regina Brett




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Monday, March 3rd, 2014

"The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time." ~~ Jiddu Krishnamurti




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Friday, February 28th, 2014

"Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone." ~~ Regina Brett




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Thursday, February 27th, 2014

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." ~~   Dorothy Parker




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Wednesday, February 26th, 2014

"Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all." ~~ William Faulkner




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Tuesday, February 25th, 2014

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. " ~~ Sir Winston Churchill




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Monday, February 24th, 2014

"Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck." ~~ Regina Brett





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Friday, February 21st, 2014

“It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks” ~~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir




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Thursday, February 20th, 2014

"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man." ~~ Benjamin Franklin




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Wednesday, February 19th, 2014

"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all." ~~ Aristotle






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Tuesday, February 18th, 2014

"It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think." ~~ Robert Hutchins




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Monday, February 17th, 2014

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy." ~~ John Adams to Abigail Adams, May 12, 1780




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Friday, February 14th, 2014

"People and nations are forged in the fire of adversity." ~~ John Adams




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Thursday, February 13th, 2014

"Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks." ~~ Regina Brett




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Wednesday, February 12th, 2014

"When in doubt, just take the next small step." ~~ Regina Brett




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Tuesday, February 11th, 2014

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








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Monday, February 10th, 2014

"If you don't ask, you don't get." ~~ Regina Brett




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Friday, February 7th, 2014

"I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand." ~~ Chinese Proverb




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Thursday, February 6th, 2014

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




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Tuesday, February 4th, 2014

"If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people." ~~ Chinese proverb




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Monday, February 3rd, 2014

"You cannot teach anybody anything. You can only help them discover it within themselves." ~~  Galileo




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Friday, January 31st, 2014

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison." ~~ Victor Hugo




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Thursday, January 30th, 2014

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.  ~ Herman Melville




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Wednesday, January 29th, 2014

"Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift." ~~ Regina Brett




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Tuesday, January 28th, 2014

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." ~~ Benjamin Franklin






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Monday, January 27th, 2014

"The whole world opened to me when I learned to read." ~~ Mary McLeod Bethune






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Friday, January 24th, 2014

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." ~~  Mahatma Gandhi




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Thursday, January 23rd, 2014

"Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't." ~~L. L. Henderson




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Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014

"The best is yet to come." ~~ Regina Brett




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Tuesday, January 21st, 2014

"You must be the change you want to see in the world." ~~ Mahatma Gandhi






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Monday, January 20th, 2014

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. " ~~ Dr. Seuss




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Friday, January 17th, 2014

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




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Thursday, January 16th, 2014

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." ~~ Sir Winston Churchill




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Wednesday, January 15th, 2014

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." ~~ Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen




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Tuesday, January 14th, 2014

"Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash. " ~~ Rita Mae Brown




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Monday, January 13th, 2014

“If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.” ~~ Dalai Lama




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Friday, January 10th, 2014

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." ~~   Groucho Marx




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Thursday, Jan 9th, 2014

"The objective of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."~~ Robert Maynard Hutchins




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Wednesday, Jan 8th, 2014

"You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself." ~~ Sam Levenson




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Tuesday, Jan 7th, 2014

"Growing old beats the alternative - dying young." ~~ Regina Brett




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Monday, Jan 6th, 2014

"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." ~~   Marilyn vos Savant




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