OT: Quotes

[elena88]

I think this was from the answer man movie.. but I liked it..

"If you are not moving toward a goal, you are moving away from it."

[ozij]

I. I. Rabi, nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate:

"My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school: So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. “Izzy,” she would say, “did you ask a good question today?” That difference—asking good questions—made me become a scientist."

[rested gal]

I. I. Rabi, nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate:

"My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school: So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. “Izzy,” she would say, “did you ask a good question today?” That difference—asking good questions—made me become a scientist."

I love that!!!

Some more about encouraging the child...

"For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift." - Wernher von Braun

"Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today."
— Gabriela Mistral

[JockLitt]

"Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite" - "I told you I was sick". Spike Milligan's epitaph (Irish comedian)

[mars]

Hi All

The following quotes are taken from the book "It's Never Too Late To Have A Happy Childhood" - by Claudia Black..............

Recovery is not a solitary journey.
Even if you could do it alone
You do not deserve to do it alone. - Claudia Black
.
You were once a
wondrous, joyous,
creative, curious, innocent child.
That special inner child
remains with you today.
Honor, celebrate, and
acknowledge that child. - Claudia Black

You are very special.
You may never have had the opportunity
to believe in your specialness.
You may believe in it today - Claudia Black

The following was originally posted on another thread, when I thought the "Quotes" thread had timed out, and I had originally forgot to put them on that thread -

Forgiveness is a journey, not an event - Anonymous (possibly) and/or Mars (possibly)

and to finish off here is a quote from one of my favourite American educators -

Life Is Uncertain...Eat Dessert First - Sol Gordon

cheers

Mars

[SleepingUgly]

On the topic of children:

I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom.
It's my personal approach that creates the climate.
It's my daily mood that makes the weather.
As a teacher I possess a tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous.
I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration.
I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal.
In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated, and a child humanized or de-humanized.

-- Haim Ginot

[Snorebert]

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

--Evelyn Beatrice Hall (pseud. S. G. Tallentyre) in the biography "The Friends of Voltaire".

Dedicated to Roster. (Might be overstating it a bit regarding that death part but you get the idea!)

[miketech]

When I first started reading CPAPTALK, I was immediately amazed by some wonderful quotes in members "bi-lines",
and started saving a file of them. You will see a few of them below, some serious, some funny:



Posted by scrapper on Sat Jan 02, 2010 1:16 pm:

A couple years ago I finished my master's thesis using current literature.
Various scholars have studied and written on the difference that gratitude and learned optimism make on a life.
It's not pop psychology.

Some insights--just quickly looking back at a few favorite books on the shelfs...

...Gratitude is not complete in an individual until you recognize (intellectually), acknowledge (willingly),
and appreciate (emotionally). It's more than simply politeness--true gratitude transforms and enrichs your life.

...Gratitude is related positively to life satisfaction, vitality, happiness, self-esteem, optimism,
hope, empathy, and willingness to provide emotional and tangible support for other people.
Ungratefulness relates to anxiety, depression, envy, materialism, and loneliness.
( okay, so I'm not completely grateful, but I'm trying!)

...Experts state that up to 75% of longevity in people is related to psychological and behavioral factors.

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If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get. ~Frank A. Clark


In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy. --Albert Clarke


“Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands,
because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy —
because we will always want to have something else or something more.” — Brother David Steindl-Rast



They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. Andy Warhol



Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. --Leroy (Satchel) Paige




If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack.
If you don't have it, no matter what else there is... it's not enough. Ann Landers



"Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance."--Sam Brown


Build a man a fire and he'll stay warm tonight. Set a man on fire and he'll stay warm the rest of his life.



Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.


Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have,
and only you can determine how it will be spent.
Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
-Carl Sandburg



How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving,
and tolerant of the weak and the strong,
because someday in life you will have been all of these.



To every problem there is already a solution whether you know it or not.
Grenville Kleiser 1868-1953, American Author




"First rule of holes: when you are in one, stop digging"


Happiness is not a goal, it is a byproduct.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is from the heart out, not the world in.



"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass,
it's about learning how to dance in the rain."


A little kindness can go a long way....especially if it gets passed on.


Ignorance is a lack of education,
while stupidity is a failure to understand that education is lacking.




“Men often become what they believe themselves to be.
If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it.
But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even
if I didn't have it in the beginning.” Mahatma Gandhi


“Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it” Mahatma Gandhi


It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” Mahatma Gandhi


"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others,
are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
-- Douglas Adams



Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect,
it means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections.



Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion.
I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
- Kurt Vonnegut



"Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out." - John Wooden


Politicians are like diapers,They should be changed often,and for the same reason!


Wars arise from a failure to understand one another's humanness.
Instead of summit meetings, why not have families meet for a picnic and
get to know each other while the children play together?
-the Dalai Lama



Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines



Some people are like Slinkies;
not really good for anything,
but they still bring a smile to your face
when you push them down a flight of stairs.



Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrows;
it empties today of its strength. - Corrie Ten Boom





May you always have
Love to Share,
Health to Spare,
and Friends that Care.


"S/He who has but a thousand friends has not a friend to spare"




"The poem, 'The Final Analysis' was written by Dr. Kent M. Keith and is frequently attributed
to Mother Theresa, as she had it posted on her wall - she knew a good poem when she read it."
However Keith's version ends with "Give your best anyway". It is thought that Mother Teresa
added the last line to the poem. To me, it ties the whole poem together. Her line gives the reason why.



Mother Teresa Prayer- The Final Analysis Prayer

People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.

What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.

Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.

In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.





Mike

[mars]

"The poem, 'The Final Analysis' was written by Dr. Kent M. Keith and is frequently attributed
to Mother Theresa, as she had it posted on her wall - she knew a good poem when she read it."
However Keith's version ends with "Give your best anyway". It is thought that Mother Teresa
added the last line to the poem. To me, it ties the whole poem together. Her line gives the reason why.

Mother Teresa Prayer- The Final Analysis Prayer

People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.
What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.
Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.
In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.

Mike

Hi Mike

I was about to PM you when I saw that you had partly corrected your quote by Kent M. Keith. But you still say -

However Keith's version ends with "Give your best anyway".

It is thought that Mother Teresa added the last line to the poem. To me, it ties the whole poem together. Her line gives the reason why.

I had thought that had been cleared up, and that she did not add that line.

http://elise.com/quotes/a/kent_keith_-_ ... onable.php

http://www.kentmkeith.com/mother_teresa.html

The first link was on the original thread, which had even more interesting links -

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=48793&p=448112&hili ... sa#p448112

cheers

Mars

[unadog]

This is a bit more than a "quote", but it is one of my favorites.

I have to admit I was more of a scientist than a poet for a while. Took me a bit to "get" this.

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INTERBEING - by Thich Nhat Hanh
from his book, “Peace is Every Step”


“If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain; without rain, the trees cannot grow; and without trees, we cannot make paper. The cloud is essential for the paper to exist. If the cloud is not here, the sheet of paper cannot be here either. So we can say that the cloud and the paper inter-are. “Interbeing” is a word that is not in the dictionary yet, but if we combine the prefix “inter-“ with the verb “to be,” we have a new verb, inter-be.

If we look into this sheet of paper even more deeply, we can see the sunshine in it. Without sunshine, the forest cannot grow. In fact, nothing can grow without sunshine. And so, we know that the sunshine is also in this sheet of paper. The paper and the sunshine inter-are. And if we continue to look, we can see the logger who cut the tree and brought it to the mill to be transformed into paper. And we see wheat. We know the logger cannot exist without his daily bread, and therefore the wheat that became his bread is also in this sheet of paper. The logger’s father and mother are in it too. When we look in this way, we see that without all of these things, this sheet of paper cannot exist.

Looking even more deeply, we can see ourselves in this sheet of paper too. This is not difficult to see, because when we look at a sheet of paper, it is part of our perception. Your mind is in here and mine is also. So we can say that everything is in here with this sheet of paper. We cannot point out one thing that is not here – time, space, the earth, the rain, the minerals in the soil, the sunshine, the cloud, the river, the heat. Everything co-exists with this sheet of paper. That is why I think the word inter-be should be in the dictionary. “To be” is to inter-be. We cannot just be by ourselves alone. We have to inter-be with every other thing. This sheet of paper is, because everything else is.

Suppose we try to return one of the elements to its source. Suppose we return the sunshine to the sun. Do you think that this sheet of paper will be possible? No, without sunshine nothing can be. And if we return the logger to his mother, then we have no sheet of paper either. The fact is that this sheet of paper is made up lonely of “non-paper” elements. And if we return these non-paper elements to their sources, then there can be no paper at all. Without non-paper elements, like mind, logger, sunshine and so on, there will be no paper. As thin as this sheet of paper is, it contains everything in the universe in it.”


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[unadog]

I just came upon this very similar quote from the physicist Richard Feynman a couple of days ago:

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A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine."

We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe.

There are the things of physics: the twisting liquid which evaporates depending on the wind and weather, the reflections in the glass, and our imagination adds the atoms. The glass is a distillation of the Earth's rocks, and in its composition we see the secrets of the universe's age, and the evolution of stars. What strange arrays of chemicals are in the wine? How did they come to be? There are the ferments, the enzymes, the substrates, and the products.

There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation. Nobody can discover the chemistry of wine without discovering, as did Louis Pasteur, the cause of much disease. How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts — physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on — remember that Nature does not know it!

So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure: drink it and forget it all!

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Left brain: right brain

[Hospiceangel]

God won't give me anything I can handle, I just wish he would quit trusting me so much Bible and Mother Teresa

Anonymous
God Grant me the patience to change the men I can, the aim to shoot the men I can't and the wisdom to know the difference.

Shar:)

[SleepingUgly]

I like your quote, Shar!

God Grant me the patience to change the men I can, the aim to shoot the men I can't and the wisdom to know the difference.

I'd like to amend that quote to:

God grant me the patience to change the men I can, the aim to shoot the men I can't, and the wisdom to get away with it.

[neverbetter]

"Change your underwear...just in case something happens to you"
my Mother

[Hospiceangel]

That's true Neverbetter.
My mom used to say that too but nowday's in the ER they just take the Trauma sheers and cut your clothes off~ so I don't think anyone cares anymore.

Sleepingugly, You can change it anyway you like. I got it trouble when I took it on a magnet to work once. They thought it was sexist. The male Chaplain that had a desk right next to me thought it was hysterical!!!

Shar:)