by Editor | Feb 7, 2018 | Learn |
[blockquote author=”Jacob Riis” ]When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it...
by Editor | Jan 31, 2018 | Learn |
[blockquote author=”Calvin Coolidge” ]Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard...
by Tim Lautzenheiser | Apr 7, 2017 | Learn |
[blockquote author=”” ]Ability is rated by what is finished, not what is started.[/blockquote] “Motivation—where can I buy some?” “They never seem to reach their full potential. Just one time I wish they would all give 100 percent.” “This year’s class has...
by Tim Lautzenheiser | Dec 30, 2016 | Learn |
[blockquote author=”” ]Where I was is destroyed, where I am stands condemned, where I shall be is just now being built.[/blockquote] When we all have the potential to succeed at almost anything we choose, why do so few people attain a high...
by Tim Lautzenheiser | Sep 10, 2016 | Learn |
[blockquote author=”Theodore Roosevelt” ]The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again… who knows the great enthusiasms,...
by Tim Lautzenheiser | Jun 11, 2016 | Learn |
[blockquote author=”” ]A mistake is at least evidence that someone tried to do something.[/blockquote] Education is full of little axioms we all pass over somewhere in our education classes in college and soon forget in the midst of the everyday tasks at...
by Tim Lautzenheiser | Apr 16, 2016 | Learn |
[blockquote author=”” ]Unless you know to what port you sail, no wind is a good wind. Remember, too, that winds change with each day, and sails are trimmed to meet existing winds.[/blockquote] “There is just never enough time! It seems like I just finish...
by Tim Lautzenheiser | Mar 14, 2016 | Learn |
[blockquote author=”Lana Limpert” ]When we think positively and imagine what we want, we risk disappointment; when we don’t, we ensure it.[/blockquote] Doesn’t the title make you cringe? Isn’t the phrase, “It’s good enough,” offensive to your sense of...
by Tim Lautzenheiser | Feb 16, 2016 | Learn |
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. —Thomas Henry Huxley Everyone wants “the answer”– the answer to everything from installing a garage door opener to dealing with...
by Tim Lautzenheiser | Sep 1, 2015 | Learn |
[blockquote author=”Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist)” ]Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one...