more from Jerry Becker's list

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NOTE: The following quotations have been collected from a variety of sources ... in e-mail notes, from bulletin boards and from the ASCD SmartBrief, over some time.
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"In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and highest responsibility anyone could have."
(Lee Iacocca, author of Where Have All the Leaders Gone?, 2007) [Sent by Dylan Wiliam]

"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn."
(John Cotton Dana) [Corrected from Gilbert Highet by Shari Stokes and Diana Suskind]

"Forever is composed of nows."
(Emily Dickinson)

"When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it."
(Margaret Chase Smith, first female U.S. senator)

"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time."
(Edith Wharton, American author)

"May the light always find you on a dreary day.
When you need a home, may you find a way.
May you always have courage to take a chance,
And never find a frog in your underpants."
(Unknown)

"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen but understanding it for the first time."
(Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine)

"Teachers should be seen as Investment Bankers."
(Dr. Bill Clyde, VPAA Queens University of Charlotte) [Sent by C.E. Davis]

"Better know nothing than half-know many things."
(Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher)

"Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
(Eleanor Roosevelt, former first lady)

"If you can't direct the wind, you can adjust your sails."
(Unknown)

"Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one's body and train one's mind."
(Anil Ambani, Indian businessman)

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death"
(Martin Luther King Jr.) [Sent by Brian Greer]

"Music is what language wishes it could be."
(John O'Donohue, Irish poet and philosopher (as heard on "Speaking of
Faith") [Sent by Sandy Lemberg]

"Contentment makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor."
(Benjamin Franklin, U.S. inventor, statesman)

"In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence."
(Laurence J. Peter and Ramond Hull -- The Peter Principle: The principle holds that in a hierarchy members are promoted so long as they work competently. Sooner or later they are promoted to a position at which they are no longer competent (their "level of incompetence"), and there they remain. Peter's Corollary states that "in time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out his duties" and adds that "work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence".)

"Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were."
(David Rockefeller, businessman)

"Never invest in a business you cannot understand."
(Warren Buffett, American businessman)