Quotes from Jerry Becker

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NOTE: The following quotations have been collected from a variety of sources ... from e-mail notes and signatures, bulletin boards, the ASCD SmartBrief and from other sources, as well, over some time.
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"The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion."
(G.K. Chesterton)


"Enough is sufficient."
(Mennonite Saying)


"You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something."
(H.G. Wells)


"Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action."
(Benjamin Disraeli, former British prime minister)


"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."
(Einstein)


"Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself."
(John Dewey, philosopher, psychologist)


"A teacher affects eternity-he can never tell where his influence stops."
(Henry Adams) [Via Arne Duncan]


"The limits of my language are the limits of my mind."
(Wittgenstein) [Via Janet Bolite Frant]


"Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears."
(Robert W. Sarnoff)


"If you are not invited to the table, you are probably on the menu."
(Unknown)


"I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution."
(Wernher von Braun, German-American rocket scientist)


"Showing up is 95% of life."
(Woody Allen)


"What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?"
(Rollo May) [Sent by Anna Rainville]


"We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't."
(Frank A. Clark) [Sent by Michael Matthews]


"It is a true saying that 'One falsehood leads easily to another.' "
(Cicero)


"I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round."
(Muhammad Ali)


"The first thing to do when you find yourself in a deep hole is to stop digging." [Note: You also need to stop denying just how deep the hole is.]
(An old adage)


"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
(Maori Proverb)


"Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.
(Alan Alda) [Sent by Michael Matthews]

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