Common Core is a big win for education.
Bill GatesI think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.
Terry PratchettBut blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
Alexander PopeI’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.
Angelina JolieChange is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.
Joyce MeyerImaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
John RuskinMake the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.
Hermann HesseIt’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.
Joyce MeyerThe object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
Gilbert K. ChestertonSend forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
Charles DickensGenius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaPeople who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
Andrew CarnegieYou’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.
Richard P. FeynmanI hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.
LeBron JamesPersonally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
Carl SaganI’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
Karl LagerfeldBy trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.
Mark TwainI’ve learned never to say never.
Dwayne JohnsonThe harder I work, the luckier I become.
Terry PratchettTact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham LincolnWhenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
EpictetusBe as you wish to seem.
SocratesCharacter, not circumstances, makes the man.
Booker T. WashingtonSome mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
Tennessee WilliamsExperience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.
Oscar WildeI was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.
Nelson MandelaTo realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
Lao TzuA learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Benjamin FranklinWith mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.
Thich Nhat HanhI’m very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That’s my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it’s not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.
Denzel WashingtonI change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.
David BowieShun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaQuality is not an act, it is a habit.
AristotleI don’t think a lot of people know personally who I am.
Tom BradyAs a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.
Dalai LamaIf you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Jim RohnLearning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
ConfuciusOrthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
Aldous HuxleyI think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerHe who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Elbert HubbardMost damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.
Alice WalkerI guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.
Joe BidenLet each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.
Nelson MandelaMost people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
Eckhart TolleI don’t mind telling a dark side.
Clint EastwoodI would fain grow old learning many things.
PlatoThe less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
Bruce LeeA man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.
Marcus AureliusThe possession of anything begins in the mind.
Bruce LeeCoaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.
Tom BradyI got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.
Mark ZuckerbergNo group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
Franklin D. RooseveltCommonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
Mahatma GandhiKids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.
Matthew McConaugheyWe are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.
Carl JungThe utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
Joseph AddisonI’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.
RihannaCan the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.
Jiddu Krishnamurti