I used to collect sayings and quotations that I found appropriate to education and life and put them up around my classroom. I felt it might be nice to put them here as well. If I don't know who wrote them, then assume they are anonymous. Ideas are wonderous and dangerous things, they make us think and shake up our comfortable lives. This is probably why so many people walk around like mindless drones: it doesn't require any effort or thought and they don't have to change. Enjoy!
30 years from now, it won't matter what shoes you wore, how your hair looked, or the jeans you bought. What will matter is what you learned and how you used it.
Watch your thoughts,
they become words.
Watch your words,
they become actions.
Watch your actions,
they become habits.
Watch your habits,
they become your character.
Watch your character,
it becomes your destiny.
-Frank Outlaw
No slackers.
To be a leader, you gotta be…
Movin' shakin' problem solvin'
Positive thinkin' crowd involvin'
Class leadin' example settin'
Student servin' results gettin'
Character buildin' team creatin'
Working together, cooperatin'
This school will NEVER be the same!
What is discipline?
It is wise to direct your anger toward problems-not people;
to focus your energies on answers-not excuses.
-William Arthur Ward
If you always do
what you've always done
you'll always get
what you've
always gotten
What the superior person seeks is from within.
What the mean person seeks is in others.
Without knowing the force of words,
It is impossible to know people.
Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
A pen may be just as usefully employed in crossing out as in writing.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes, he who does not is a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
I was surprised to learn that successful people in every line of endeavor share one thing thing in common, and often only one: a large vocabulary.
Chuck Lawliss
I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger, And I never quite belong.
-George Simeon