Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. If you change your thinking, you change your life.
Virtually everything you do is the result of habit. The good news is that all habits are learned, and they can therefore be unlearned.
Brian Tracy (born 1944) is a Canadian-born motivational speaker and author.
Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.
The only way to learn is to keep doing something new, and, if you’re lucky, learning with people who really know how to do it.
Nora Ephron (1941-2012) was an American novelist, screenwriter, and film director.
Ice cream bell ringing?
Memory bank mistaken—
Trolley car coming
Engineer at work
Oops . . . building blocks falling down—
Right back to square one
Swallowing loose tooth
What about the Tooth Fairy?
Dreams filled with magic
I’ve felt some great feelings on the baseball field . . . in front of 50,000 people and millions on TV . . . but the feeling you get when you give a kid a chance, that is a hundred times greater than that feeling.
Get in the game. Do the best you can. Try to make a contribution. Learn from today. Apply it to tomorrow.
Cal Ripken, Jr. (born 1960) is a former Major League Baseball player. Nicknamed the “Iron Man,” because of his playing in 2,632 consecutive games, he is a Hall-of-Fame honoree. His entire career of 21 seasons was spent with the Baltimore Orioles.
There are no secrets to success. It is only the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.
Colin Powell (1937-2021) was an American army officer and diplomat.
Welcome blessed child
May you taste world’s endless gifts—
Vision awakens
Eyes find breath of peace
Embracing each precious day—
Experience counts
Remembering youth
Innocent times of learning—
Treasures of friendship
Life hurries past us . . . too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
Willa Cather (1873-1947) was a writer known for her stories of living on the Great Plains.
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.
E. L. (Edgar Lawrence) Doctorow (1931-2015) was an American writer and editor. He was best known for his historical novels.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was an Irish writer. He was well-known for his poetry.
You can teach to a wall, but when you help someone learn, you have to get involved with the whole person.
Every adult needs a child to teach; that’s the way adults learn.
Guy Rice Doud (born 1953) is an American author and speaker. He is a former National Teacher of the Year.
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