by Editor | Feb 7, 2018 | Perspectives |
[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 Tim Lautzenheiser | Nov 20, 2016 | Perspectives |
[blockquote author=”Cullen Hightower” ]One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There’s no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.[/blockquote] As teachers, we all have a desire to present valuable information to our...
by Tim Lautzenheiser | Sep 10, 2016 | Perspectives |
[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 | Apr 16, 2016 | Perspectives |
[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 | Perspectives |
[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 | Perspectives |
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...