In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer
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There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare, 1564-1616
The difficulties of life are meant to make us better, not bitter.
Anonymous
The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.
John W Tukey, Exploratory Data Analysis
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Rabindranath Tagore
Jean-Georges Vongerichten showed me the value in taking away, taking things off of a plate. … The more you put on the plate, the easier it is to hide. The more you take away, there’s nowhere to hide—it has to be good.
Chef Wylie Dufresne
A Conversation with Wylie Dufresne
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
The Old Man and the Sea
Education isn’t something you can finish
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
The myth is that there isn’t enough time. There is plenty of time. There isn’t enough focus with the time you have. You win by directing your attention toward better things.
James Clear
If you can’t make a mistake, you can’t make anything.
Marva Collins
Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will have lost the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.
David Burns
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Denis Waitley
It’s good to remember that there’s much to learn from negative experiences. In science, mistakes always precede discoveries.
John C. Maxwell
When opportunity comes, it’s too late to prepare.
John Wooden
If you’re willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you’ve got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
Joseph Sugarman
The most common trait I have found in successful people is that they conquered the temptation to give up.
Peter Lowe
Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.
Ken Blanchard
Don’t rush, but don’t wait. Act with urgency, but release yourself from the need to achieve it on a particular timeline. When you think longer term than most, you can think bigger than most. If it takes years, start now.
James Clear
Focus starts with elimination, improves with concentration, and compounds with continuation.
James Clear
What if we studied what was right with people instead of what was wrong with them?
Don Clifton
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Epicurus – Greek philosopher
One can resist the invasion of armies; one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
Victor Hugo
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
Bertrand Russell
You can’t use up creativity, the more you use the more you have.
Maya Angelou
We do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience.
John Dewey
Creativity is not a talent it is a way of operating.
John Cleese
Budgets are a tool, not a weapon.
Seth Godin
If you think you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
Walter Mondale
Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
James Allen