Inspirational Quote Post

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I personally read 3-5 quotes every 2 hours during the business day to remind myself to reach for greatness, and I look forward to turning this discussion into a section of the network that will inspire us all.

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."
Dale Carnegie

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Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on November 7, 2008 at 11:29am: Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world.

Malcolm X

Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on November 7, 2008 at 11:29am: Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Omar Nelson Bradley

Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on November 7, 2008 at 11:24am: Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon --all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness.

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Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on November 7, 2008 at 11:27am: There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on November 7, 2008 at 11:27am: The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past-and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort.

Ayn Rand

Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on November 7, 2008 at 11:27am: The glory of God is inteligence, or, in other words, light and truth. D&C 93:36

Doctrine & Covenants

Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on November 7, 2008 at 11:28am: All of life is a constant education.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on November 7, 2008 at 11:28am: Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.

Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on November 7, 2008 at 11:28am: Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

Edward M. Forster

Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on February 26, 2009 at 11:23pm: Clifford Odets - “There are two kinds of marriages — where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.”

Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on November 7, 2008 at 11:41am: Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance.

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Permalink Reply by KARYNE Add me as a friend! on November 7, 2008 at 11:41am: True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world.

Felix E. Schelling