All schools, all colleges, have two great
functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The
theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as
less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying
a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half
of it is rotten.
-- Mark Twain
-- Mark Twain
“Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.”
- Author Unknown
- Author Unknown
- To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
- - Arnold Toynbee, English historian & historical philosopher (1889 - 1975)
- It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
- - Arnold Toynbee
- The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
- Saint Jerome, church father & saint (374 AD - 419 AD)
- A goal without a plan is just a wish.
- - Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)
- The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
- - Denis Watley
- Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.
- -- J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
- A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.
- - Kurt Lewin (1890 - 1947)
- We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
- - Maxwell Maltz, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
- To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.
- - Michael Hanson
- In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
- -- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
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"The greater danger for most of us is notthat our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."
- Michelangelo - Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be
seen.
- Stephen Hawking
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