Positive Quote Of The Day July 2011

[pjbs35a]

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
-- Confucius (Chinese Philosopher) 551-479 B.C.

[Jeff]

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Welcome to July!

[disneydeb]

LOL!! I can see some educators arguing that it all depends if one is a auditory or visual learner, but experience learning invovles all modalities!! !:thumbsup:

Excellent as always. Thanks Frankie!

[pjbs35a]

Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment.
-- Tom Morris

[vizsla]

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[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

In work, the greatest satisfaction lies - the satisfaction of stretching yourself, using your abilities and making them expand, and knowing that you have accomplished something that could have been done only by your unique apparatus. This is really the center of life, and those who never orient themselves in this direction are missing more than they ever know.
-- Kenneth Alsop (1920-1973)

[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

A childlike man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle aged habit and convention.
-- Aldous Huxley


HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY !!

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can be aroused by two things: first, an idea which takes the imagination by storm; and second, a definite, intelligible plan for carrying that idea into action.
-- Arnold Toynbee (1889-1975)

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice. It is what enables the soldier to die alone, the political prisoner to resist, the singer to sing her song, hardly appreciated, on a side street.
-- Mark Helprin American Novelist and Writer

[Jeff]

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[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

Genuine security arises from actual, first-hand knowledge that one is both capable and worthy of achieving happiness (through conscious, responsible action) and, once having attained it, that he deserves it.
-- Michael J. Hurd American Motivational Speaker

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

The manner in which it is given is worth more than the gift.
-- Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) French Playwright

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
-- Marilyn vos Savant

[pjbs35a]

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
-- Aeschylus 525-456 BC

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.
-- Arab proverb

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
-- Horace (65-8 BC) Roman Poet

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!
-- Jonathan Winters

[vizsla]

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[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
-- Julia Sorel 1926-

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice how he acts when he loses money.
-- New England Proverb

[Jeff]

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[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie.
-- Ann Landers, born 1918

[pjbs35a]

Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues.
Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits. Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out.
-- Eleanor Porter (1868-1920) American Novelist

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel 1907-1972

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has, or how he is regarded by others.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Man does not live by a turkey in every oven or a color TV set in every home. Man lives by faith and hope and love, by the star on the horizon, by the trumpet that will not call retreat.
-- E. Merrill Root (1895-1973) American Writer

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself... and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
-- Shirley MacLaine

[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
-- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer

[Jeff]

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[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.
-- Brian Tracy

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.

-- Brian Tracy

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable.
-- Christopher Reeve (1952-2004) American Actor

[pjbs35a]

Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.

-- Harvey Fierstein

[pjbs35a]

The higher type of man clings to virtue, the lower type of man clings to material comfort. The higher type of man cherishes justice, the lower type of man cherishes the hope of favors to be received.

-- Confucius (551-479 BC) Chinese Philosopher

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

-- Lao Tzu

[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

-- David Viscott

[pjbs35a]

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

-- John F. Kennedy

[pjbs35a]

Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference.

-- Nolan Bushnell

[vizsla]

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