SAYINGS XXIV - from J. Becker
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NOTE: The following quotations have been collected from a variety of sources ... from e-mail notes (signatures), bulletin boards, the ASCD SmartBrief, a website by Sanderson, from some recipients and from other sources, as well, over some time.
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"To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done, the people say 'We did it ourselves!'"
(Lao-Tsu)
NOTE: The following quotations have been collected from a variety of sources ... from e-mail notes (signatures), bulletin boards, the ASCD SmartBrief, a website by Sanderson, from some recipients and from other sources, as well, over some time.
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"To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done, the people say 'We did it ourselves!'"
(Lao-Tsu)
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
(Confucius)
"The hardest thing you can ever ask a teacher to do is to teach in a way they were not taught
themselves."
themselves."
(Ken Jensen - Instructional Math Coach)
"At first, I kept discovering truths known to many, then truths known to some, and finally truths known to none."
(K. E. Tsiolkovsky) [Sent by Maria Droujkova]
"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place."
(Nora Roberts, American author)
"Pleasant memories must be arranged for in advance."
(Unknown)
"At first, I kept discovering truths known to many, then truths known to some, and finally truths known to none."
(K. E. Tsiolkovsky) [Sent by Maria Droujkova]
"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place."
(Nora Roberts, American author)
"Pleasant memories must be arranged for in advance."
(Unknown)
"The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
(Albert Einstein) [From Otis Taylor]
"Make math your own, to make your own math."
(Unknown) [From the signature of Maria Droujkova]
"I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it."
(Jonathan Winters, American comedian and author)
"A woman is like a tea bag: You never know her strength until you drop her in hot water."
(Nancy Reagan)
"There must be something to acupuncture - after all, you never see any sick porcupines."
(Bob Goddard)
"Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks, estimate our ability to deal with them and make our plans with confidence."
(Henry Ford II)
"Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it."
(Jane Wagner) [From Otis Taylor]
"Fail fast, fail often."
(Motto at the Shell Center in Nottingham, England) [From Hugh Burkhardt]
"We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress."
(Will Rogers) [From Paul Agranoff]
"You can only be young once. But you can always be immature."
(Dave Barry, American author and Pulitzer-Prize winning humorist)
"At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better. It's an enormous force for good."
(Barack Obama) [From Richard K. Moore on the eddra listserve]
"Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."
(Sir Winston Churchill) [From Oscar Chavez's signature]
"Mathematicians do it continuously and discretely."
(Unknown)
"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it."
(Dennis P. Kimbro)
"If you are going through hell, keep going."
(Winston Churchill)
"Like politics, all education is local."
(Gerald Bracey, author, researcher)
"An unhatched egg is to me the greatest challenge in life."
(E.B. White, American writer)
"When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy."
(Samuel Goldwyn, film producer)
"Computing is not about computers anymore. It is about living."
(Nicholas Negroponte, Greek-American architect and computer scientist)
"The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible."
(George Burns) [From Paul Agranoff]
"Just living is not enough. ... One must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
(Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author and poet)
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that's all."
(Oscar Wilde)
"I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
(Robert Frost) [http://poetrypages.lemon8.nl/life/roadnottaken/roadnottaken.htm]
"Insist upon yourself. Be original."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson, American transcendentalist poet, philosopher, essayist)
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"All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try
again. Fail again. Fail better." (Worstward Ho, 1983) -- i.e., Everything is as it was of old. There's never been anything else. I've never tried anything else, never failed at anything else. But it doesn't matter: I'll try again, I'll fail again. I'll fail better than I did before.
(Samuel Beckett) [This correction to the quote in last SAYINGS - "Fail again. Fail better" - is from Dylan William - see http://www.samuel-beckett.net/w_ho.htm ]
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