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• Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one's body and train one's mind.

  Anil Ambani

  Change, Exercise, Discipline

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• We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side.

  Charlie Munger

  Change, Ideas, Quality

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• Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

  Herbert Otto Gille

  Life, Change, Self Esteem

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• Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

  Tom Peters

  Change, Past, Energy

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• The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Bullying

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• A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

  Laozi

  Love, Witty, Humorous

  "Analects of Confucius". 475–221 BC.

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• Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Courage, Teaching, Adventure

  "Don Carlos". Play by Friedrich Schiller, 1787.

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• My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Clothes, Acting

  Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht (2006). “My Story”, p.64, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Wisdom, Creativity, Thinking

  Attributed to Szent-Györgyi in "Bridging the Present and the Future: IEEE Professional Communication Society Conference Record, Williamsburg, Virginia, October 16-18, 1985", p. 14, 1985.

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• It is today that we create the world of the future.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Vision, World, Today

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• Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mind

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• He meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, jailer and prisoners. They become a single group of human beings enjoying its existence.

  Gilbert Highet

  Laughing, People, Together

  GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

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• Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.

  Mary Schmich

  Funny, Birthday, Knowledge

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• It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are in a minority of one.

  Ellis Paul Torrance

  Courage, Ideas, Creative

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• The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Inspirational, Education, Fear

  A Texan in England ch. 1 (1945)

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• Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

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• Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Change, Teacher

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• Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Denis Waitley, Dayna Waitley, Deborah Waitley (1999). “The Psychology of Winning for Women: What Every Woman Needs to Know, what Every Man Needs to Understand”, Executive Excellence Pub

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• The kind of teacher who is afraid that they are going to be replaced by a computer should be.

  Michael Fullan

  Teacher, Reading, Kind

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• Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done.

  Rudolf Flesch

  Change, Mean, Thinking

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• Learning is experience understood in tranquility.

  Charles Handy

  Tranquility, Understood

  Charles B. Handy (1998). “Beyond Certainty: The Changing Worlds of Organizations”, p.155, Harvard Business Press

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• We learn by reflecting on what has happened. The process seldom works in reverse, although most educational processes assume that it does. We hope that we can teach people how to live before they live, or how to manage before they manage.

  Charles Handy

  Educational, People, Doe

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• If the schooling system does not rapidly close the gap between what it does, and what it should do in response to the demands of the 21st century, it will simply become irrelevant.

  David Hood

  Doe, Demand, Gaps

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• Accepting the key premise that the learner is the primary customer of schooling means others follow naturally. ... The core business of schooling is learning, and the quality of learning experienced by all learners should be the standard against which performance is measured.

  David Hood

  Mean, Keys, Quality

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• A true bubble is when something is overvalued and intensely believed. Education may be the only thing people still believe in in the United States. To question education is really dangerous. It is the absolute taboo. It's like telling the world there's no Santa Claus.

  Peter Thiel

  Believe, People, United States

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