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QUOTES ABOUT HABITS OF MIND

A Habit of Mind means having a disposition toward behaving intelligently when

confronted with problems, the answers to which are not immediately known: dichotomies,

dilemmas, enigmas and uncertainties. It means getting into the habit of behavingintelligently when you D!"# know the answer.

"Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot breakit."Horace Mann

"The sum of one's intelligence is the sum of one's habits of mind."Lauren esnick

"!owerful indeed is the emire of habit."!ublicus #yrus, $% &

"( learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is roomfor arado)es."Ma)ine Hong *ingston

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what kees you going."+im yuh

"Learning to e)lain henomena such that one continues to be fascinated by thefailure of one's e)lanations creates a continuing cycle of thinking, that is thecru) of intelligence. (t isn't that one erson knows more than another, then. (n assense, it is imortant to know less than the ne)t erson, or at least to be certainof less, thus enabling more curiosity and less e)laining away because one hasagain encountered a wellknown henomenon. The less you know the more youcan find out about, and finding out for oneself is what intelligence is all about."

oger #chank

"How much do students really love to learn, to ersist, to assionately attack aroblem or a task- ...to watch some of their ried ideas e)lode and to startanew- ...to go beyond being merely dutiful or longwinded- Let us assess suchthings."/rant 0iggins

"The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his


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life and the habit of action he develos in meeting those tests."/ail #heehy

"1ut of clutter, find #imlicity.2rom discord, find Harmony.(n the middle of difficulty lies oortunity."3lbert 4instein

"3 great leasure in Life is doing what eole say you cannot do."Tommy +ohn

"5atural abilities are like natural lants; they need runing by study."2rancis &acon

"( believe everybody is creative, and everybody is talented. ( 6ust don't think that

everybody is discilined. ( think that's a rare commodity."3l Hirschfield

"There is no education like adversity."&en6amin 7israeli

"0hat haens is not as imortant as how you react to what haens."Thaddeus /olas

"#uccessful eole aren't born that way. They become successful by establishingthe habit of doing things unsuccessful eole don't like to do. The successful

eole don't always like these things themselves; they 6ust get on and do them."0illiam Makeeace Thackeray

"!erle)ity is the beginning of knowledge."*ahlil /ibran

"5othing can sto the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal;nothing on earth can hel the man with the wrong mental attitude"Thomas +efferson

"1osition is a natural art of life. +ust as we develo our hysical musclesthrough overcoming oosition such as lifting weights we develo ourcharacter muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity."#tehen ovey

"0hen you are face to face with a difficulty, you are u against a discovery."Lord *elvin

"#uccess is a state of mind. (f you want success, start thinking of yourself as a


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success."7r. +oyce &rothers

"The true test of character is...how we behave when we don't know what to do."+ohn Holt

"The greater art of our hainess or misery deends on our disositions, andnot on our circumstances."Martha 0ashington

"3nyone can have a good day. The 8uestion is what do you do on a bad day.That's when you're being tested. (n a very tangible sense, a bad day shows yourinnermost essence more than a good day."3rthur /olden

"3 hay erson is not a erson in a certain set of circumstances, but rather aerson with a certain set of attitudes."Hugh 7owns

"To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life isbut a tissue of habits."Henri 2redric 3miel

"/ood habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding."Harvey Mackay

"0hen we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work and whenwe no longer know which way to go we have begun our real 6ourney. The mindthat is not baffled is not emloyed. The imeded stream is the one that sings."0endell &erry

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfortand convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."7r. Martin Luther *ing, +r.

"4)cellence is an art won by training and habituation. 0e do not act rightly

because we have virtue or e)cellence, but we rather have those because we haveacted rightly. 0e are what we reeatedly do. 4)cellence, then, is not an act but ahabit."3ristotle

"(ron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its urity and in cold weatherbecomes froen; even so does inaction sa the vigor of the mind."Leonardo da 9inci


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"Hel your children understand that e)cellence in education cannot be achievedwithout intellectual and moral integrity couled by hard work and commitment."5ational ommission on 4)cellence in 4ducation

"The mind is like the stomach. (t's not how much you ut into it, but how much itdigests."

3lbert +ay 5ock

"To make headway, imrove your head."&. . 2orbes

"The successful erson is the individual who forms the habit of doing what thefailing erson doesn't like to do."7onald iggs

"5urture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than

you think."&en6amin 7israeli

"The emires of the future are the emires of the mind."0inston hurchill

"( have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the osition thatone has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying tosucceed."

&ooker T. 0ashington

"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity youbring to your life and the lives of the eole you love. 0hen you learn to ta thissource, you will have truly defeated age."#ohia Loren

"The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties."3bigail 3dams

"Trouble creates a caacity to handle it."1liver 0endell Holmes

#mooth seas do not make skillful sailors.3frican roverb

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfortand convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."Martin Luther *ing +r.


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"Take the obvious, add a cuful of brains, a generous inch of imagination, abucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil."&ernard &aruch

"&e of good cheer. 7o not think of today's failures, but of the success that may

come tomorrow. ou have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed ifyou ersevere; and you will find a 6oy in overcoming obstacles."Helen *eller

"The mind has e)actly the same ower as the hands: not merely to gras theworld, but to change it."olin 0ilson, 3uthor

"5urture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes."&en6amin 7israeli

"Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health."arl +ung

"The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how webehave when we don't know what to do."+ohn Holt

"(t is not in the still calm of life, or the reose of acific station that greatcharacters are formed."3bigail 3dams

"*nowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."3lfred, Lord Tennyson

"0hen we are lanning for osterity, we ought to remember that virtue is nothereditary."Thomas !aine

"haracter is higher than intellect."alh 0aldo 4merson

"5o brain is stronger than its weakest think."Thomas L. Masson

"(t is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well."en< 7escartes


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"3chieve success in any area of life by identifying the otimum strategies andreeating them until they become habits."harles +. /ivens &usinessman, and 3uthor

"#uccess is a rocess, a 8uality of mind and way of being, an outgoingaffirmation of life."

3le) 5oble, hilosoher

"(n adversity remember to kee an even mind."Horace

"Habit is ten times nature."7uke of 0ellington

"The hainess of your life deends on the 8uality of your thoughts."Marcus 3urelius 3ntoninus, oman ruler

"The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter theirlives by altering the attitudes of their minds."3lbert #chweiter, M. 7.

"0hen eole will not weed their own minds, they are at to be overrun withnettles."Horace 0alole, Lord 1rford

"1ur selfimage and our habits tend to go together. hange one and you willautomatically change the other."

7r. Ma)well Malt, author

"Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, thatis the only morality."&laise !ascal


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"&e like a ostage stam=stick to one thing until you get there."Margaret arty

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4lected !resident of the Dnited #tates, >?BA3braham Lincoln

"!atience, ersistence and ersiration make an unbeatable combination forsuccess."5aolean Hill, author

"4very day you miss laying or racticing is one day longer it takes to begood."&en Hogan, /olfer

"5othing in the world can take the lace of ersistence.Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent./enius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a roverb.4ducation will not; the world is full of educated failures.!ersistence and determination alone are omniotent."alvin oolidge

"2aith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement."Thomas 5. arruther

"3lways bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more imortantthan any other thing."3braham Lincoln

"Tribulation roduces erseverance; and erseverance, character; andcharacter, hoe."Romans


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"onstant driing hollows out a stone."Lucretius

"3ll effort is in the last analysis sustained by faith that it is worth making."1rdway Tweed

"0hen you have a great and difficult task, something erhas almostimossible, if you only work a little at a time, everyday a little, suddenly thework will finish itself."(sak 7inesen Eseudonym for *aren &li)enF, 7anish 0riter

"3ge wrinkles the body. Guitting wrinkles the soul."7ouglas Mac3rthur

"( hated every minute of training, but ( said, '7on't 8uit. #uffer now and live

the rest of your life like a chamion.'"Muhammad 3li

"The difference between erseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from astrong will, and the other from a strong won't."Henry 0ard &eecher

"(n the realm of ideas, everything deends on enthusiasm; in the real world,all rests on erseverance."/oethe

"ourage and erseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficultiesdisaear and obstacles vanish into air."+ohn Guincy 3dams

"To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficultachievement."&ertrand ussell

"(f ( had to select one 8uality, one ersonal characteristic that ( regard asbeing most highly correlated with success whatever the field, ( would ick thetrait of ersistence. 7etermination. The will to endure to the end, to getknocked down A times and get u off the floor saying, 'Here comes number>I'"


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ichard M. 7evos

"Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, butgathering a ower that moves steadily through time, like weather."+ohn 0 /ardner

"(f the only tool you have is a hammer, you will treat the whole world as if itwere a nail. "4dward de &ono

"2laming enthusiasm, backed u by horse sense and ersistence, is the 8ualitythat most often makes for success."7ale arnegie

"!ersistence is the twin sister of e)cellence. 1ne is a matter of 8uality; theother, a matter of time."

Marabel Morgan

"&ig shots are only little shots who kee shooting."hristoher Morely

"Most of the imortant things in the world have been accomlished by eolewho have ket on trying when there seemed to be no hoe at all."7ale arnegie

"(t takes a long time to become young."!ablo !icasso

"0hen we accet tough 6obs as a challenge to our ability and wade into themwith 6oy and enthusiasm, miracles can haen."3rland /ilbert

"(t is a great nuisance that knowledge can be ac8uired only by hard work."0. #omerset Maugham

"(f ( have the belief that ( can do it, ( shall surely ac8uire the caacity to do iteven if ( may not have it at the beginning."

Mahatma /andhi

"(t's never crowded along the e)tra mile."7r. 0ayne 7yer

"(t's hard to wring my hands when ( am busy rolling u my sleeves."Linda /eraci


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"Those who succeed and do not ush on to greater failure are the siritualmiddleclassers."4ugene 1'5eill

"Life is often comared to a marathon, but ( think it is more like being a

srinter; long stretches of hard work unctuated by brief moments in which weare given the oortunity to erform at our best."Michael +ohnson

"0inning isn't everything. J0antingJ to win is."atfish Hunter

"0hatever course you decide uon, there is always someone to tell you thatyou are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which temt you to believethat your critics are right. To ma out a course of action and follow it to an end

re8uires courage."alh 0aldo 4merson

"0hen you get in a tight lace and everything goes against you, till it seems asthough you could not hold a minute longer, never give u then, for that is 6ustthe lace and time that the tide will turn."Harriet &eecher #towe

"3lways continue the climb. (t is ossible for you to do whatever you choose ifyou first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a ower that isgreater than ourselves to do it. "

1rah 0infrey

"5othing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faintheart, and with a lame endeavor."(ssac &arrow

"2ailure is usually the line of least ersistence."0ilfred &eaver

"#uccess seems to be connected with action. #uccessful men kee moving.

They make mistakes but they don't 8uit."onrad Hilton

"/rant me the courage not to give u, even though ( think it's hoeless."3dmiral hester 0. 5imit

"(t does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not sto."onfucius


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"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solelyin my tenacity. "Louis !asteur

"#tudies indicate that the one 8uality all successful eole have is ersistence.They're willing to send more time accomlishing a task and to ersevere in

the face of many difficult odds. There's a very ositive relationshi betweeneole's ability to accomlish any task and the time they're willing to send onit."+oyce &rothers, !sychologist and 3uthor

"( will ersist until ( succeed. 3lways will ( take another ste. (f that is of noavail ( will take another, and yet another. (n truth, one ste at a time is not toodifficult . . . . ( know that small attemts, reeated, will comlete anyundertaking."1g Mandino, 3uthor

"&y erseverance the snail reached the ark."harles H. #urgeon

"#triving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where youhaven't lanted."7avid &ly

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.hinese roverb

"1bstacles don't have to sto you. (f you run into a wall, don't turn around andgive u. 2igure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."Michael +ordan

"&eing defeated is often a temorary condition. /iving u is what makes itermanent."Marlene #avant

"( think there are two keys to being creatively roductive. 1ne is not beingdaunted by one's fear of failure. The second is sheer erseverance."

Marylaire *ing

2all seven times, stand u eight.+aanese !roverb

"!erseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hardwork you already did."5ewt /ingrich


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"9itality shows in not only the ability to ersist but the ability to start over."2. #cott 2itgerald

"0hen you have a great and difficult task, something erhas almostimossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly thework will finish itself."

(sak 7inesen Eseudonym for *aren &li)enF, 7anish 0riter

"#trength does not come from winning. our struggles develo your strengths.0hen you go through hardshis and decide not to surrender, that is strength."3rnold #chwarenegger, 3ctor

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets ainful is the manwho will win."oger &annister

"To give yourself the best ossible chance of laying to your otential, youmust reare for every eventuality. That means ractice."#teve &allesteros, !rofessional /olfer

Let us then be u and doing,0ith a heart for any fate;#till achieving, still ursuing,Learn to labor and to wait. Henry 0adsworth Longfellow

"(f something is boring after two minutes, try itfor four. (f still boring, then eight. Then si)teen. Then thirtytwo. 4ventuallyone discovers that it is not boring at all."+ohn age

"7iligence is the mother of good luck."&en6amin 2ranklin

"The greatest results in life are usually attained by simle means and the

e)ercise of ordinary 8ualities. These may for the most art be summed u inthese two=commonsense and erseverance."1wen 2eltham, 0riter

"haracter consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."+ames 3. Michener

"5othing in the world can take the lace of ersistence and determination."alvin oolidge


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"0hen the world says, '/ive u,' Hoe whisers, 'Try it one more time.'"3nonymous

"The difference between erseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from astrong will, and the other from a strong won't."

Henry 0ard &eecher

"Hard work sotlights the character of eole: some turn u their sleeves,some turn u their noses, and some don't turn u at all."#am 4wing

"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solelyin my tenacity."Louis !asteur

"That which we ersist in doing becomes easier to do. 5ot that the nature ofthe thing has changed but the ower to do it has changed."alh 0aldo 4merson, 3uthor

"2ailure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."Truman aote

"!ersistence is what makes the imossible ossible, the ossible likely, and thelikely definite."obert Half, 4)ecutive

"4nergy and ersistence con8uer all things."&en6amin 2ranklin

"2ailure is usually the line of least ersistence."0ilfred &eaver

"ou don't win an 1lymic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training."#eth /odin

"( found that ( could find the energy...that ( could find the determination to

kee on going. ( learned that your mind can amae your body, if you 6ust keetelling yourself, ( can do it...( can do it...( can do itI"+on 4rickson, scientist and author

"4ffort only fully releases its reward after a erson refuses to 8uit."5aoleon Hill


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"The great thing, and the hard thing, is to stick to things when you haveoutlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sortof mastery."+anet 4rskine #tuart

"!erseverance alone does not assure success. 5o amount of stalking will lead

to game in a field that has none."( hing

"0hen we accet tough 6obs as a challenge to our ability and wade into themwith 6oy and enthusiasm, miracles can haen."3rland /ilbert, writer

"(t does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not sto."onfucius

"!eole of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success becausethey don't know when to 8uit."/eorge Herbert 3llen


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"(t is easier to suress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it."&en6amin 2ranklin

"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right lacebut to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the temting moment."

7orothy 5evill

"The immature mind hos from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks tofollow through."Harry 3. 1verstreet

"/reat things are not done by imulse, but by a series of small things broughttogether."9incent 9an /ogh

"#eak when you're angry=and you'll make the best seech you'll ever regret."Laurence !eter

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started isbreaking your comle) overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, andthen starting on the first one."Mark Twain

"3ction without study is fatal. #tudy without action is futile."Mary &eard

"Think twice before you seak=and you'll find everyone talking about somethingelse."2rancis odman

"5o good work is ever done while the heart is hot and an)ious and fretted."1live #chriner

"(ts better to slee on things beforehand than to lie awake about themafterward."&althasar /raciare

"...goal directed selfimosed delay of gratification is erhas the essence ofemotional selfregulation: the ability to deny imulse in the service of a goal,whether it be building a business, solving an algebraic e8uation, or ursuing the#tanley cu."7aniel /oleman

"Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, sto thinking andgo in."


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3ndrew +ackson

"Look twice before you lea."harlotte &ronte

"( can give you a si) word formula for success: Think things through=then followthrough."

4ddie ickenbacker

"The sign of intelligent eole is their ability to control emotions by thealication of reason."Marya Mannes

"/reat things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed."9incent van /ogh

"1ne of the sources of ride in being a human being is the ability to bear resent

frustrations in the interests of longer uroses."Helen Merrell Lynd

"5o man can think clearly when his fists are clenched."/eorge +ean 5athan

"Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and lanning."0inston hurchill

"aution is the eldest child of wisdom."9ictor Hugo

"(mulse without reason is not enough, and reason without imulse is a oormakeshift."0illiam +ames

"3 man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis."alh 0. #ockman

"our life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously andunconsciously. (f you can control the rocess of choosing, you can take control ofall asects of your life. ou can find the freedom that comes from being in chargeof yourself."obert 2. &ennett, D.#. #enator

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but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the temting moment."7orothy 5evill

3 handful of atience is worth more than a bushel of brains.7utch !roverb

&efore you start u a ladder, count the rungs.iddish roverb

"The wise man thinks once before he seaks twice."obert &enchley

(f you are atient in one moment of anger, you will avoid one hundred days ofsorrow.hinese roverb

"( count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who con8uers hisenemies; the hardest victory is the victory over self."3ristotle

"The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thoughtof yet."3nn Landers

"5ever be afraid to sit awhile and think."Lorraine Hansberry

"3 man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor andthere is an invisible labor."9ictor Hugo

"1ne cool 6udgment is worth a doen hasty councils. The thing to do is to sulylight and not heat."0oodrow 0ilson

"How oor are they that have not atienceI0hat wound did ever heal but by degrees-"

#hakeseare EOthelloF

"/enius is nothing but a great atitude for atience."/eorges Louis Leclerc


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"4verything comes gradually and at its aointed hour."1vid

"Learn the art of atience. 3ly disciline to your thoughts when they becomean)ious over the outcome of a goal. (matience breeds an)iety, fear,discouragement and failure. !atience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a

rational outlook, which eventually leads to success."&rian 3dams

"3ll things ass ... !atience attains all it strives for."#t. Theresa of 3vila

He who hurries can not walk with dignity.hinese !roverb

"The cyclone derives its owers from a calm center. #o does a erson."

5orman 9incent !eale

"( count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who con8uers hisenemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self."3ristotle

"0hen angry, count ten, before you seak; if very angry, an hundred."Thomas +efferson

"( sto and taste my words before ( let them ass my teeth."3nonymous

"The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watchsomeone else do it wrong, without comment."Theodore H. 0hite , reorter and author

"emember not only to say the right thing in the right lace, but far moredifficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the temting moment."&en6amin 2ranklin

"&efore seaking, consider the interretation of your words as well as their

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"(f you 6udge eole, you have no time to love them."Mother Teresa

"The way of being with another erson which is termed emathic meanstemorarily living in their life, moving about in it delicately without making

6udgments.... To be with another in this way means that for the time being youlay aside the views and values you hold for yourself in order to enter the other'sworld without re6udice...a comle), demanding, strong, yet subtle and gentleway of being."arl ogers

"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right lacebut to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the temting moment."7orothy 5evill

"(t is the rovince of knowledge to seak and it is the rivilege of wisdom tolisten."1liver 0endell Holmes, #r.

"(f you want to be listened to, you should ut in time listening."Marge !iercy

He who guards his mouth kees his life, but he who oens wide his lis comesto ruin.!roverbs >@:@

"7ialogue is about eole=listening to them, emathiing with them, andhumbling ourselves for a moment that we might understand a different view."Science & Spirit: Connecting Science, Religion and Life, +anuary2ebruary %AA>,. .

"3 uni8ue relationshi develos among team members who enter into dialogueregularly. They develo a dee trust that cannot hel but carry over todiscussions. They develo a richer understanding of the uni8ueness of eacherson's oint of view."!eter #enge

"eal dialogue is where two or more eole become willing to susend theircertainty in each other's resence."7avid &ohm

"Think twice before you seak=and you'll find everyone talking aboutsomething else."2rancis odman


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"Try to see it my way, only time will tell if ( am right or ( am wrong. 0hile yousee it your way, there's a chance that we might fall aart before too long. 0ecan work it out. 0e can work it out."+ohn Lennon and !aul Mcartney

"The simle act of aying attention can take you a long way."*eanu eeves

"7ialogue's sole urose is to create something that has not reviously beenthought by any individual rior to the dialogue. (t's urose is not to shareinformation but to create information...."Michael McMaster

"(f there is any secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other erson'soint of view and see things from his angle as well as from your own."Henry 2ord

"5othing increases the resect and gratitude of one man for another more thanwhen he is heard e)actly and with interest.". Dmbach

Listening is the beginning of understanding.... 0isdom is the reward for alifetime of listening. Let the wise listen and add to their learning and let thediscerning get guidance.!roverbs >:C

"3 good listener is not only oular everywhere, but after a while he gets toknow something."

0ilson Miner

"7id you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is notobsessed with being right-"0ayne 0. 7yer

"The only service a friend can really render is to kee u your courage byholding u to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."/eorge &ernard #haw

"( like to listen. ( have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most eolenever listen."4rnest Hemingway

"Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third."Marge !iercy


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"7ialogue is a sace where we may see the assumtions which lay beneath thesurface of our thoughts, assumtions which drive us, assumtions around whichwe build organiations, create economies, form nations and religions. Theseassumtions become habitual, mental habits that drive us, confuse us andrevent our resonding intelligently to the challenges we face every day."7avid &ohm

"#ilent and listen are selled with the same lettersI"Dnknown

"riticiing others is a dangerous thing, not so much because you may makemistakes about them, but because you may be revealing the truth aboutyourself."Harold Medina

"Listening is as imortant as talking. (f you're a good listener, eole often

comliment you for being a good conversationalist."+esse 9entura

"*now how to listen, and you will rofit even from those who talk badly."!lutarch

"(f you're forming a rebuttal, you're not really listening."+ane *livans, &ank 1ne (nvestment /rou

"(f you send more time asking aroriate 8uestions rather than givinganswers or oinions, your listening skills will increase."

&rian *oslow

"Two monologues do not make a dialogue."+eff 7aly

"Most conversations are simly monologues delivered in the resence of awitness."Margaret Millar

"0hen one's own roblems are unsolvable and all best efforts are frustrated, itis lifesaving to listen to other eole's roblems."#uanne Massie

"There are very few eole who don't become more interesting when they stotalking."Mary Lowry


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"1ne of the best ways to ersuade others is with your ears=by listening tothem."7ean usk, D.#. #ecretary of #tate

"&ecome the world's most thoughtful friend."H. +ackson &rown, +r., 3uthor

"(f you can learn a simle trick, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds offolks. ou never really understand a erson until you consider things from hisoint of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."Harer Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

"4ducation is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temeror your selfconfidence."obert 2rost

"Think in terms of what's good for the other erson and success will seek youout."Mary *ay 3sh, 4ntrereneur

"Hearing is a assive activity=you're allowing sound waves to enetrate yourear. (n listening, you actively determine meaning to what is heard=you listenwith your eyes and ears. ou're in control when a customer is talking about hisroblem, and out of control when you're talking about yourself."arolyn iddle, #ales !erson

"To listen fully means to ay close attention to what is being said beneath the

words. ou listen not only to the 'music,' but to the essence of the ersonseaking. ou listen not only for what someone knows, but for what he or sheis. 4ars oerate at the seed of sound, which is far slower than the seed oflight the eyes take in. /enerative listening is the art of develoing deeersilences in yourself, so you can slow our mind's hearing to your ears' naturalseed, and hear beneath the words to their meaning."!eter #enge

Listen or thy tongue will kee thee deaf.3merican (ndian !roverb

"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right 8uestions."+ohn 3. #imone, +r.

"Ten eole who seak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent."5aoleon


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"Most conversations are simly monologues delivered in the resence ofwitnesses."Margaret Millar

"5ature has given men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice asmuch as we seak."

4ictetus

"&eing listened to is so close to being loved that most eole cannot tell thedifference." 7avid 1)berg

"3 good listener tries to understand what the other erson is saying. (n the endhe may disagree sharly, but because he disagrees, he wants to know e)actlywhat it is he is disagreeing with."*enneth 3. 0ells

"There is no greater loan than a symathetic ear."2rank Tyger

"0elltimed silence hath more elo8uence than seech."Martin 2ra8uhar Tuer

"4ven a fool is thought wise if he kees silent, and discerning if he holds histongue."3nonymous

The wise man has long ears and a short tongue.

/erman !roverb

"Listen and hear not only what you thought you wanted to hear. Listen and hearwhat you have to learn."alh #. Marston, +r.

Listen or your tongue will kee you deaf.5ative 3merican !roverb

"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery."

7r. +oyce &rothers

"ou cannot know who is going to bring you your future. ou cannot 8ualifythem in advance by looking at degrees, or e)erience, or gender or race. oucan only listenI"+oel &arker, Ftre !dge

"5o one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll seewhy."


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Mignon McLaughlin

"The first duty of love is to listen."!aul Tillich, theologian

"Listen that you may live."

(saiah

"(t is the rovince of knowledge to seak and it is the rivilege of wisdom tolisten."1liver 0endall Holmes

"ourage is what it takes to stand u and seak. ourage is also what it takesto sit down and listen."0inston hurchill

"Listening is a hug you give with your mind."&arbara 5i)on

"The silence of rayer is the silence of listening."4liabeth 1onnor, 4lderly Housing !rogram

"The more faithfully you listen to the voice within you, the better you will hearwhat is sounding outside. 1nly he who listens can seak."7ag Hammarskold

"!eole dont listen to understand. They listen to rely. The collective

monologue is everyone talking and no one listening."#tehen ovey

Try to listen carefully that you might not have to seak.Guaker saying

"0hen you are deely contemlative, you listen more carefully and understandthings which cannot be articulated."7avid 3. ooer

"ou talk when you cease to be at eace with your thoughts."*ahlil /ibran

"The reason why so few eole are agreeable in conversation is that each isthinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying,and we never listen when we are eager to seak."La ochefoucauld

"4very moment ( send training myself to inner listening is like digging a well,


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deeer and deeer, toward the source of relenishment that never goes dry."+oanne &lum, !h.7.

"(n music we gain a sense of rhythm through the absence of sound. 3 similarrocess occurs in communication between two eole."#heldon oth

"He who seaks does not know, he who knows does not seak."3nonymous

"( sto and taste my words before ( let them ass my teeth."3nonymous

"0e need silence to be able to touch souls."Mother Theresa

"Listen as though your life deended on it. (t does."The 3rt of !ilgrimage

"Listening=the language of love for everyone."3nonymous

"/ood comany and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue."(aak 0alton

"There's a guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear theright words."

alh 0aldo 4merson

"( like to listen. ( have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most eolenever listen."4rnest Hemingway

"(t is understanding that gives us an ability to have eace. 0hen weunderstand the other fellow's viewoint, and he understands ours, then we cansit down and work out the differences."Harry # Truman

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"( can't understand why eole are frightened by new ideas. ('m frightened ofold ones."+ohn age

(t's an ill lan that cannot be changed.

Latin roverb

"+ust when ( think ( have learned the way to live, life changes."Hugh !rather

"5othing is more dangerous than an idea when it's the only one you've got."3lain E4mile 3ugust hartierF

"(t's a mighty oor mind that can only think of one way to sell a word."3ndrew +ackson

"4ducation's urose is to relace an emty mind with an oen one."Malcolm 2orbes

"Life is not a static thing. The only eole who do not change their minds areincometents in asylums, and those in cemeteries."4verett Mc*inley 7irksen

"7o not go where the ath may lead, go instead where there is no ath andleave a trail."alh 0aldo 4merson

"They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to changethem yourself."3ndy 0arhol

"1nly fools and dead men don't change their minds. 2ools won't and dead mencan't."+ohn H. !atterson

"Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body."

3ldous Hu)ley

" Dnless you change how you are, you'll always have what you've got."+im ohn, #eaker and 3uthor

"hange your thoughts and you change your world."5orman 9incent !eale

"ontinuing to cling to the atterns you know inhibits your ability to discover


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what you don't know."4ric 3llenbaugh

"7iscovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking whatnobody has thought."3lbert von #ent/yorgyi

"hange is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the hoeni)."hristina &aldwin

"The dust of e)loded beliefs may make a fine sunset."/eoffrey Madan

"There is nothing so confining as the risons of our own ercetions."0illiam #hakeseare, King Lear

"5o roblem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. 0e

must learn to see the world anew."3lbert 4instein

"Team members need to be able to susend disbelief, think the unthinkable, andlet intuition and remonitions flow freely. Therefore, a necessary skill in teammembers is tolerance for ambiguity."*ees van der Hei6den

"The only thing that makes life ossible is ermanent, intolerable uncertainty,not knowing what comes ne)t."Drsula *. Leguin

"( desire that there be as many different ersons in the world as ossible; (would have each one be very careful to find out and reserve his own way."Henry 7avid Thoreau

"hange is fun and e)citing and, like a haircut, looks funny at first; but once youget used to it, it's great."3nne &lair

"5ew frameworks are like climbing a mountain=the larger view encomasses

rather than re6ects the earlier, more restricted view."3lbert 4instein

"7on't be afraid to give u the good to go for the great."*enny ogers

"(f you find a good solution and become attached to it the solution may becomeyour ne)t roblem."


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7r. obert 3nthony

"4veryone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself."Leo Tolstoy

"2aced with the choice between changing one's mind, and roving that there isno need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the roof."

+ohn *enneth /albraith

"7id you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is notobsessed with being right-"0ayne 0. 7yer

"1ur destination is never a lace but rather a new way of looking at things."Henry Miller

"1nce eole learn something, they're reluctant to let it go."

obert 4aston

"(f you never change your mind, why have one-"4dward de&ono

"1nly in growth, reform and change...arado)ically enough...is true security tobe found."3nne Morrow Lindbergh

"(t is what we think we know already that often revents us from learning."laude &ernard

"Maturity of mind is the caacity to endure uncertainty."+ohn 2inley

"(t is not the strongest of the secies that survive, nor the most intelligent, butthe one most resonsive to change."harles 7arwin

"0hen you're through changing, you're through."&ruce &arton

"3 erson can grow only as much as his horion allows."+ohn !owell

"0hat we truly and earnestly asire to be, that in some sense we are. The mereasiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realies itself."3nna +ameson

"Have confidence in your decisions. Make them e)editiously, and stay with


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them as long as you believe you are correct no matter what others say.However, when you conclude you were in error, do not hesitate to announce theerror ublicly and change course."4dward +. *och

#often the rigidities within yourself and the universe will give you strength and

vigor.3rabic !roverb

"ou are the one who can stretch your own horion."4dgar 2. Magnin

"My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes ( made while learning tosee things from the lant's oint of view."H. 2red 3le

"The test of a firstrate intelligence is the ability to hold two oosed ideas in themind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."2. #cott 2itgerald

"1f all forms of mental activity, the most difficult to induce even in the minds ofthe young, who may be resumed not to have lost their fle)ibility, is the art ofhandling the same bundle of data as before, but lacing them in a new systemof relations with one another by giving them a different framework, all of whichvirtually means utting on a different kind of thinkingca for the moment. (t iseasy to teach anybody a new fact...but it needs light from heaven above toenable a teacher to break the old framework in which the student is accustomed

to seeing."3rthur *oestler

"Life at any time can become difficult; life at any time can become easy. (t alldeends uon how one ad6usts oneself to life."Morar6i 7esai

"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alteryourself to meet them."!hyllis &ottome

"0hen one door is shut, another one oens."Miguel de ervantes

"They must often change, who would be constant in hainess or wisdom."onfucius

"(t's never too late=in fiction or in life=to revise."5ancy Thayer


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"0e know that uncertainty creates an)iety and sometimes deserate attemtsto find something to believe in. Dncertainty engenders real oortunity as wellas misleading choices, great leaders as well as false messiahs, and new ways ofunderstanding the world alongside hollow ma)ims and decetive romises.Dnderstandably, we seek guides and guideosts to ease the an)iety of the

6ourney. &ut we also need to deend on our own insights and imagination tocultivate, from our own e)erience, a way to move forward."3lan &riskin

"hange cannot be avoided. hange rovides the oortunity for innovation. (tgives you the chance to demonstrate your creativity."*eshavan 5air, 3uthor and !rofessor

"My oinion is a view ( hold until...well, until ( find something that changes it."Luigi !irandello

"(t is not necessary to change. #urvival is not mandatory."0. 4dwards 7eming

"The art of life lies in constant read6ustment to our surroundings."1kakura *akuo

"(t is well for eole who think to change their minds occasionally in order tokee them clean."Luther &urbank

"#tubbornness does have its helful features. ou always know what you aregoing to be thinking tomorrow."/len &eaman

"&ecause things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are."&ertold &recht

"(f you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the wayyou think about it"Mary 4ngelbreit

"ou had better be ready to change your mind when needed."Henry &. 0ilson

"(f you're in a bad situation, don't worry; it'll change. (f you're in a goodsituation, don't worry; it'll change."+ohn 3. #imone, #r.


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"( shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and ( shall adot newviews so fast as they shall aear to be new views."3braham Lincoln

"5o one can make you change.

5o one can sto you from changing.5o one really knows how you must change.5ot even you.5ot until you start."7r. 7avid 9iscott, 3uthor and !sychologist

"1ur only security is our ability to change."+ohn Lilly

3 wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.

#anish !roverb

"The foolish and the dead alone never change their oinion."+ames ussell Lowell

"( bend but do not break."+ean de la 2ountaine

"2le)ibility and adatability do not haen 6ust by reacting fast to newinformation. They arise from mental and emotional balance, the lack ofattachment to secific outcomes, and utting care for self and others as a rime

oerating rincile. 2le)ible attitudes build fle)ible hysiology. 2le)iblehysiology means more resilience in times of challenge or strain. #taying oen=emotionally=insures internal fle)ibility."7oc hildre and &ruce ryer from Chaos to Coherence

"(t is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factorin society today 5o sensible decision can be made any longer without taking intoaccount not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be."(saac 3simov

"5othing is so firmly believed as what we least know."Michel 4y8uem de Montaigne, 2rench 3uthor

"Think in terms of what's good for the other erson and success will seek youout."Mary *ay 3sh, 4ntrereneur


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"3ny lan is bad which is not suscetible to change."&artolommeo de #an oncordio, !ainter and 0riter

"He who re6ects change is the architect of decay. The only human institutionwhich re6ects rogress is the cemetery."Harold 0ilson

"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make of it."Marcus 3urelius 3ntoninus

"3 truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can e8ually embrace greatthings and small."#amuel +ohnson

"(f you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. (s that goodnews-"

obert 3nthony, 3uthor

"( dwell in ossibility."4mily 7ickinson

"#o often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting themalter us, which is what they are meant to do."Mother Maribel

"4mbrace change. (t's going to haen whether you like it or not."1dette !ollar, seaker and author

"(f you are too attached to your own thinking and how everything is done now,then nothing will change for the better."+ohn . Ma)well


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"( thank the Lord for the brain He ut in my head. 1ccasionally, ( love to 6uststand to one side and watch how it works."ichard &olles

"To be able to be caught u into the world of thought; that is being educated."

4dith Hamilton

"To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficultachievement."&ertrand ussell

"(f you think you can, you can. 3nd if you think you can't, you're right."Mary *ay 3sh

"( cannot teach anybody anything, ( can only make them think."

#ocrates

"5othing is more difficult, and therefore more recious, than to be able todecide."5aoleon

"To know that you do not know is the best. To retend to know when you do notknow is disease."Lao Tsu

"Learn to deend uon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way

of thinking."/renville *leiser

"4verything we do consciously remains for us."/urd6ieff and 1usinsky

"0hen the mind is thinking it is talking to itself"!lato

The whole, though it be long, stands almost comlete and finished in my mind sothat ( can survey it at a glance. 5or do ( hear in my imagination the artssuccessively, but ( hear them, as it were, all at once. 0hat delight this is ( cannottellI0olfgang 3madeus Moart


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"Human thought is a rocess by which human ends are ultimately answered."7aniel 0ebster

"*ee in mind always the resent your are constructing. (t should be the futureyou want."3lice 0alker

"(f the head is ready, the body will follow."3le)ander !oov

"Most eole would sooner die than think; in fact they do so."&ertrand ussell

"The only lace where your dream becomes imossible is in your own thinking."obert H. #chuller

"( really lack the words to comliment myself today."3lberto Tomba

"0atch your thoughts, they become words.0atch your words; they become actions.0atch your actions; they become habits.0atch your habits; they become character.0atch your character; it becomes your destiny."2rank 1utlaw

"reativity, my students learn, is as natural a function of the mind as breathing

or digestion are natural functions of the body."+ohn *ao

"( believe everybody is creative, and everybody is talented. ( 6ust don't think thateverybody is discilined. ( think that's a rare commodity."3l Hirschfield

"(f ( look confused it's because ('m thinking."#amuel /oldwyn

"4ach day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discilineand order are relieved with some lay and some ure foolishness."May #arton

"The temle of our urest thoughts is silence."#arah +. Hale


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"( cannot always control what goes on outside. &ut ( can always control whatgoes on inside."0ayne 7yer

"(f you had a friend who talked to you, like you sometimes talk to yourself, wouldyou continue to hang around with that erson-"

ob &remer

"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."4dmund &urke

"1nce we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm."/eorg . Lichtenberg

"This moment deserves your full attention, for it will not ass your way again."7an Millman

"1timism is an intellectual choice."7iana #chneider

"He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened."LaoTu

"3 erson can grow only as much as his horion allows."+ohn !owell

"0hen every hysical and mental resource is focused, one's ower to solve a

roblem multilies tremendously."5orman 9incent !eale

"To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what givesmeaning to your life."!aula &rownlee

"1nly the human brain can deliberately change ercetions, change atterns,invent concets and tolerate ambiguity."4dward de &ono

"(f your struggle with the conflicting arts of yourself is conscious, you are ableto choose consciously the resonse that will create the karma that you desire.ou will be able to bring to bear uon your decision an awareness of what liesbehind each choice, and the conse8uences of each choice, and chooseaccordingly. 0hen you enter into your decisionmaking dynamic consciously, youinsert your will consciously into the creative cycle through which your soul


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evolves, and you enter consciously into your own evolution."/ary Nukav

"1nce in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself."3udrey /iorgi

"The brain's caacity and desire to make or elicit atterns of meaning is one ofthe keys of brainbased learning. 0e never really understand something until wecan create a model or metahor derived from our uni8ue ersonal world.Learning and memory are influenced by the sets, intentions and lans generatedin the neocorte) of the brain as well as by the information received from theimmediate environment and from internal states, drives, and muscularresonses. The reality we erceive, feel, see and hear is influenced by theconstructive rocesses of the brain as well as by the cues that iminge uon it."Merlin . 0ittrock

"The field of consciousness is tiny. (t accets only one roblem at a time."3ntoine de #aint4)u


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+ames ussell Lowell

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. 0ehave created society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."3lbert 4instein

"7own time is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance,kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on the stoo and staring at thetedious blue of the summer sky. ( don't believe you can write oetry, or comosemusic, or become an actor without downtime, and lenty of it, a hiatus thatasses for boredom but is really the 8uiet moving of the wheels inside that fuelcreativity."3nna Guindlen, !uliter !rie winning writer

"They can because they think they can."9irgil

"(f you don't daydream and kind of lan things out in your imagination you neverget there. ou have to start somelace."obert 7uvall, actor

"(f you do not ask yourself what it is you know, you will go on listening to othersand change will not come because you will not hear your own truth."#aint &artholomew


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Measure a thousand times and cut once.Turkish !roverb

"/ood is not good, where better is e)ected."Thomas 2uller

"5ever mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record fromday to day, and you are a success."0illiam +. H. &oetcker

"0henever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching."Thomas +efferson

"( have offended /od and mankind because my work didn't reach the 8uality itshould have."

Michelangelo

"1nly the mediocre are always at their best."+ean /iraudou)

"1n course doesn't mean erfect. 1n course means that even when things don'tgo erfectly=you are still going in the right direction."harles /arfield

"4very day you miss laying or racticing is one day longer it takes to be good."&en Hogan, /olfer

"The ability to simlify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessarymay seak."Hans Hoffman

"3ny activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doingit better."+ohn Ddike

"3 little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of e)lanation."

H. H. Munro E#akiF

"( don't want to get into anything that would only behalfway. (f we're going tocommit to it, then we're going to commit to it all the way."3l Dnser, +r., acecar driver

"3ccuracy of observation is the e8uivalent of accuracy of thinking."0allace #tevens


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"(f you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you havedone as well as or better than anyone else."0illiam 2eather

"(t is necessary to try to surass oneself always; this occuation ought to last aslong as life."Gueen hristina, of #weden

"3 man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing anothermistake."onfucius

"(f you aren't going all the way; why go at all-"+oe 5amath

"The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that heknows where he is going."

5aoleon Hill

"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurementsanew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their oldmeasurements and e)ected them to fit me."/eorge &ernard #haw

"7on't be afraid to give u the good to go for the great."*enny ogers

"0e aim above the mark to hit the mark."

alh 0aldo 4merson

"(t's never crowded along the e)tra mile."7r. 0ayne 7yer

"Life is often comared to a marathon, but ( think it is more like being a srinter;long stretches of hard work unctuated by brief moments in which we are giventhe oortunity to erform at our best."Michael +ohnson, E%AA and $AA meter world record holderF

"The 8uality of an individual is reflected in the standards they set for themselves."ay *roc

"The rincile is cometing against yourself. (t's about selfimrovement, aboutbeing better than you were the day before."#teve oung, 2ootball !layer

"3 roblem is your chance to do your best."7uke 4llington


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"3chievement is largely the roduct of steadily raising one's level of asiration."+ack 5icklaus

"('ve always tried to go a ste ast wherever other eole e)ected me to endu."

&everly #ills

"The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right anddoing a thing e)actly right."4dward #immons

"There is a assion for erfection which you rarely see fully develoed but . . . insuccessful lives it is never wholly lacking."&liss armen

"#kill and confidence are an uncon8uered army."/eorge Hebert

"1ther eole may not have had high e)ectations for me . . . but ( had highe)ectations for myself."#hannon Miller, 1lymic /ymnast

"He who stos being better stos being good."1liver romwell

"ou go back to the gym and you 6ust do it again and again until you get it right."

3rnold #chwarenegger

"0e have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human resonsibility."3lbert 4instein, !hysicist

"Guality means doing it right when no one is looking."Henry 2ord

"(f you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that fliesfeels the attraction of earth."

Henry 0adsworth Longfellow

"#triving for e)cellence motivates you; striving for erfection is demoraliing."Harriet &raiker

"3ny man can make mistakes, but only an idiot ersists in his error."icero


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"Have no fear of erfection=you'll never reach it."#alvador 7ali

"&e true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. (f you do your best, youcannot do more."

+ean !aul ichter, /erman 5ovelist

"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."#teve !refontaine

"(t takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to e)lain why you did itwrong."Henry 0adsworth Longfellow

"There is only one real failure in life that is ossible, and that is, not to be true to

the best one knows."+ohn 2arrar

"The noblest search is the search for e)cellence."Lyndon &. +ohnson

"The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you canbecome."Harold Taylor

"ommit yourself to 8uality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to

something badly."Mark Mcormack

"3ccuracy of observation is the e8uivalent of accuracy of thinking."0allace #tevens

"The secret of 6oy in work is contained in one word=e)cellence. To know how todo something well is to en6oy it."!earl &uck

"4)cellence is in the details. /ive attention to the details and e)cellence willcome."!erry !a)ton

"My motto was to kee swinging. 0hether ( was in a slum or feeling badly orhaving trouble off the field, the only thing to do was to kee swinging."Hank 3aron

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( did ten times more work."/eorge &ernard #haw

"(f a man is called a streetsweeer, he should swee streets even as Michelangeloainted, or &eethoven comosed music, or #hakeseare wrote oetry. He shouldswee streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and 4arth will ause to say,

'Here lived a great streetsweeer who did his 6ob well.'"Martin Luther *ing, +r.

"Mistakes are a fact of life. (t is the resonse to error that counts."5ikki /iovanni, oet

"&eware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."/eorge &ernard #haw

"Hold yourself resonsible for a higher standard than anybody e)ects of you.

5ever e)cuse yourself."Henry 0ard &eecher

"The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you canbecome."Harold Taylor

"#imlify the task. ontinually look for faster, better, easier ways to get the 6obdone."&rian Tracy, seaker and author


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"ou can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. ou can tell whether a manis wise by his 8uestions."5aguib Mahfou E5obel !rie 0innerF

"+udge a man by his 8uestions rather than by his answers."

9oltaire

"5othing shaes our 6ourney through life so much as the 8uestions we ask."/reg Levoy

"The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he oses the right 8uestions."laude Levi#trauss, businessman

"(t is better to ask some of the 8uestions than to know all the answers."+ames Thurber

"Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than roblems tosolve."oger Lewin

"The best way to escae from a roblem is to solve it."3lan #aorta

"( think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow itwith the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity."4leanor oosevelt

"(ntellectuals solve roblems; geniuses revent them."3lbert 4instein

"&romidic though it may sound, some 8uestions don't have answers, which is aterribly difficult lesson to learn."*atherine /raham

"The imortant thing is to not sto 8uestioning."3lbert 4instein

"2ind a way to engage the heart in the roblem and you are likely to see the childrise naturally to his own otimal levels of uncertainty, risk and relevance."ichard +ones

"&e atient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the 8uestionsthemselves... 7o not now seek the answers which cannot be given you because


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"Guality 8uestions create a 8uality life. #uccessful eole ask better 8uestions,and as a result, they get better answers."3nthony obbins

"!erle)ity is the beginning of knowledge."

*ahlil /ibran

"Life is often comared to a marathon, but ( think itis more like being a srinter;long stretches of hard work unctuated by brief moments in which we are giventhe oortunity to erform at our best."Michael +ohnson, %AA and $AA meter world record holder

"uriosity is one of the ermanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind."#amuel +ohnson

"3 roblem is your chance to do your best."7uke 4llington

"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough roblem to deal with,but whether it is the same roblem you had last year."+ohn 2oster 7ulles

"0hen you are face to face with a difficulty, you are u against a discovery."Lord *elvin

"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."

+ean&atiste Moliere

"(t is better to know some of the 8uestions than all of the answers."+ames Thurber

"(t's not the answers that enlighten us, but the 8uestions."7escouvertes

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a foolforever.

hinese roverb

"(f we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new 8uestions."#uanne Langer

"!roblems are only oortunities in work clothes."Henry *aiser


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"( think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow itwith the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity."3nna 4leanor oosevelt

"(f you send more time asking aroriate 8uestions rather than giving answers

or oinions, your listening skills will increase."&rian *oslow

"uriosity is the wick in the candle of learning."0illiam 3rthur 0ard

"3 man may fulfill the ob6ect of his e)istence by asking a 8uestion he cannotanswer, and attemting a task he cannot achieve."1liver 0endell Holmes

"&e curious alwaysI 2or knowledge will not ac8uire you; you must ac8uire it."#udie &ack

"Millions saw the ale fall, but 5ewton asked why."&ernard &aruch

"uriosity is one of the ermanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind."#amuel +ohnson

"/ood 8uestions outrank easy answers."!aul 3. #amuelson

"!hilosohy may be defined as the art of asking the right 8uestionOawareness ofthe roblem outlives all solutions. The answers are 8uestions in disguise, everynew answer giving rise to new 8uestions."3braham +. Heschel

"4very roblem contains within itself the seeds of its own msolution."4dward #omers

He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning.

7anish !roverb

"0hen solving roblems, dig at the roots instead of 6ust hacking at the leaves."3nthony +. 7'3ngelo

"(t isn't that they can't see the solution. (t is that they can't see the roblem."/. *. hesterton


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"3 roblem well stated is a roblem half solved."harles *ettering

"The vast ma6ority of roblems, decisions and situations which confront us dailyare those which do not have 6ust one answer. #everal solutions are usually

ossible. Logic suggests that if one can mentally generate many ossiblesolutions, the more likely it is that an otimum solution will be reached. This acreative rocess=the formation of new and useful relationshis."ichard 4. Manelis

"Millions saw the ale fall, but 5ewton was the one who asked why."&ernard M. &aruch

"( think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow itwith the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity."

4leanor oosevelt

"#ometimes 8uestions are more imortant than answers."5ancy 0illard

"+udge a man by his 8uestions rather than his answers."9oltaire

3sk a 8uestion and you're a fool for three minutes; do not ask a 8uestion andyou're a fool for the rest of your life.hinese !roverb

"0hen solving roblems, dig at the roots instead of 6ust hacking at the leaves."3nthony +. 7'3ngelo

"The imortant thing is not to sto 8uestioning. uriosity has its own reasons fore)isting. 1ne cannot hel but be in awe when he contemlates the mysteries ofeternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. (t is enough if one tries tocomrehend a little of this mystery every day. 5ever lose a holy curiosity."4dmund &urke

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."4llen !arr

"(t is not only by the 8uestions we have answered that rogress may bemeasured, but also by those we are still asking."2reda 3dler

"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right 8uestions."+ohn 3. #imone, +r.


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"(f you don't ask, you don't get."Mahatma /andhi

"0hy and How are words so imortant that they cannot be too often used."5aoleon

"4ffective eole are not roblemminded; they're oortunityminded. They feedoortunities and starve roblems."#tehen ovey

"The one real ob6ect of education is to have a man in the condition of continuallyasking 8uestions."&isho Mandell reighton

"The world is but a school of in8uiry."

Michel 4y8uem de Montaigne, essayist

"He who has a why can bear almost any how."2riedrich 5ietsche, hilosoher

"3 rudent 8uestion is onehalf of wisdom."2rancis &acon

"Guestions focus our thinking. 3sk emowering 8uestions like: 0hat's good aboutthis- 0hat's not erfect about it yet- 0hat am ( going to do ne)t time- How can (do this and have fun doing it-"

harles onnolly, sychologist

"( have no secial gift. ( am only assionately curious."3lbert 4instein

"5othing shaes our 6ourney through life so much as the 8uestions we ask."/reg Levoy, author

"0hen ('m working on a roblem, ( never think about beauty. ( think only how tosolve the roblem. &ut when ( have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, (

know it is wrong."ichard &uckminster 2uller

"The roblem is not that there are roblems. The roblem is e)ecting otherwiseand thinking that having roblems is a roblem."Theodore ubin


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"The best way to escae from a roblem is to solve it."3lan #aorta

"The real roblem is what to do with the roblemsolver after the roblems aresolved."/ay Talese

"/ood 8uestions outrank easy answers."!aul 3. #amuelson, 5obel Laureate in 4conomics

"There is a time in the life of every roblem when it is big enough to see, yetsmall enough to solve."Mike Leavitt, former /overnor of Dtah


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"0e do not learn from our e)eriences; we learn by reflecting on our e)eriences."+ohn 7ewey

"The urose of a course on thinking is to enhance student's abilities to face newchallenges and to attack novel roblems confidently, rationally and roductively."

Marilyn +. 3dams

The work will teach you how to do it.4stonian roverb

"ou are today where your thoughts have brought you, you will be tomorrowwhere your thoughts take you."+ames 3llen, author

"0e often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and robably he

who never made a mistake never made a discovery."#amuel #miles

"0e learn the roe of life by untying its knots."+ean Toomer

"To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render itthe more fit for its rime function of looking forward."Margaret 2airless &arber

"(f you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big

accomlishment. That 8uality is imortant because it stays with you the rest ofyour life."hris 4vert

"Learning is the ability to make sense out of something you observe based on yourast e)erience and being able to take that observations and associate it withmeaning."uth and 3rt 0inter

"('ve never made a mistake. ('ve only learned from e)erience."

Thomas 3. 4dison

"/ood eole are good because they've come to wisdom through failure."0illiam #aroyan"!eole fall forward to success."Mary *ay 3sh

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"2acts do not cease to e)ist because they are ignored."3ldous Hu)ley

"The main fuel to seed the world's rogress is our stock of knowledge, and thebrake is our lack of imagination."+ulian #imon

"(f ( have learnt anything it is that life forms no logical atterns. (t is hahaardand full of beauties which ( try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether anyof them will ever return."Margot 2onteym

"(t is only after a fair ortion of one's life that one really knows what are the thingsthat matter, the things that will remain until the end."4sther Meynell

"Those who succeed and do not ush on to greater failure are the siritual middleclassers."4ugene 1'5eill

"1nce eole learn something, they're reluctant to let it go."obert 4aston

"The to of the hill is but the bottom of another mountain."3nkit +amwal

"3n e)ert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very

narrow field."5iels &ohr

"There are no mistakes. The events we bring uon ourselves, no matter howunleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steswe take, they're necessary to reach the laces we've chosen to go."ichard 7avid &ach

"5otice the difference between what haens when a man says to himself, '( havefailed three times,' and what haens when he says, '('m a failure.'"#. (. Hayakawa

"/od gave us memory so that we might have roses in 7ecember."(talo #vevo

"( got a fortune cookie that said, 'To remember is to understand.' ( have neverforgotten it. 3 good 6udge remembers what it was like to be a lawyer 3 good editor


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remembers being a writer. 3 good arent remembers what it was like to be achild."3nna Guindlen

"3s imortant as your ast is related to your current erformance, it is not nearlyas imortant as how you see your future."

7enis 0aitley

"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough roblem to deal with,but whether it is the same roblem you had last year."+ohn 2oster 7ulles

"#ome days you must learn a great deal. &ut you should also have days when youallow what is already in you to swell u and touch everything. (f you never let thathaen, then you 6ust accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside ofyou."

4. L. *onigsburg

"4verything we do seeds the future. 5o action is an emty one."+oan hittister

"3 life sent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than alife sent doing nothing."/eorge &ernard #haw

"(t is necessary for us to learn from others' mistakes. ou will not live long enoughto make them all yourself."

Hyman ickover

"Mistakes are art of the dues one ays for a full life."#ohia Loren

"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."&isho 0. . Magee

"There are no secrets to success. (t is the result of rearation, hard work,learning from failure."olin !owell

"+ust because something doesn't do what you lanned it to do doesn't mean it'suseless."Thomas 4dison

"ou will find as you look back uon your life that the moments when you have


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truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the sirit of love."Henry 7rummond

"our ast is not your otential. (n any hour you can choose to liberate the future."Marilyn 2erguson

"*nowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight."!lato

"5othing we learn in this world is ever wasted."4leanor oosevelt

"( have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, andkindness from the unkind; yet strange, ( am ungrateful to these teachers."*ahlil /ibran

"(t is from the fond memories of our ast that we gather courage to face thefuture."4liabeth 3ndrews

"The ast is a guideost, not a hitching ost."L. Thomas Holdcroft

"Look back to learn how to look forward."+oe /irard

"Life can be real rough . . . you can either learn from your

roblems, or kee reeating them over and over."Marie 1smond

"0hen ( want to understand what is haening today or try to decide what willhaen tomorrow, ( look back."1liver 0endell Holmes, +r.

"Life must be understood backwards. &ut it must be lived forward."

#oren *ierkegaard

"0hat ('ve been doing in ractice will carry over into the game."andall unningham, !rofessional 2ootball !layer

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"3 failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on thee)erience."4lbert Hubbard

"The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything=and it works."0illiam #trong

"0e can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the ath which hasled to the resent."3dlai 4. #tevenson

"5o amount of sohistication is going to allay the fact that all your knowledge isabout the ast and all your decisions are about the future."(an 4. 0ilson

"3ny man can make mistakes, but only an idiot ersists in his error."

icero

"0hat you know is 6ust a oint of dearture. #o let's moveI"*eoraetse *gositsile, #outh 3frican !oet

"The imrovement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase ofknowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others."+ohn Locke

"There is glory in a great mistake"5athalia rane, 0riter and !oet

"Life is divided into three terms=that which was, which is, and which will be. Letus learn from the ast to rofit by the resent, and from the resent to live betterin the future."0ordsworth

2ailures are but mileosts on the road to success.(talian !roverb

"3nyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

3lbert 4instein

"Mistakes are the ortals of discovery."+ames +oyce

4)erience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best.#anish !roverb

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hinese !roverb

"Think about the imact of today's decisions, for tomorrow is much longer thantoday."7on aiff, 4conomist

"4)erience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."1scar 0ilde

"Tomorrow is the most imortant thing in life. omes into us at midnight veryclean. (t's erfect when it arrives and it uts itself in our hands. (t hoes we'velearned something from yesterday."+ohn 0ayne

"( dont avoid ain by not remembering something; ( try to remember.... Memoryis emowering, and its what gives you your sense of continuity in the world."

Melinda 0. !oham

"5othing is a waste of time if you use the e)erience wisely."3uguste odin

"Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. ou won't have time to make themall yourself."3lfred #heinwold

"7o you know the difference between education and e)erience- 4ducation iswhen you read the fine rint; e)erience is what you get when you don't."

!ete #eeger

"4ducation is knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it'sknowing how to use the information you get."0illiam 2eather, 3uthor and !ublisher

"Dse the losses and failures of the ast as a reason for action, not inaction."harles +. /ivens, &usinessman and 3uthor

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."

+ohn !owell

"Mistakes are the usual bridge between ine)erience and wisdom."!hyllis Therou)

"Making mistakes simly means you are learning faster."0eston H. 3gor

"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough roblem to deal with,


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but whether it's the same roblem you had last year."+ohn 2oster 7ulles

"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."0inston hurchill

"Mistakes are a fact of life. (t is the resonse to error that counts."5ikki /iovanni, oet

"ou are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrowwhere your thoughts take you."+ames 3llen, author

"There is no such thing as a failed e)eriment, only e)eriments with une)ectedoutcomes."&uckminster 2uller

"3 man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself; indeed,he rogresses in all things by making a fool of himself."/eorge &ernard #haw, laywright

"0hat looks like a loss may be the very event which is subse8uently resonsiblefor heling to roduce the ma6or achievement of your life."#rully 7. &lotnick

"Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool, the essence ofhuman intelligence; to forge links; to go beyond the given; to see atterns,

relationshis, conte)t."Marilyn 2erguson

"( have always grown from my roblems and challenges, from the things that don'twork out, that's when ('ve really learned."arol &urnett, actress

"2ailure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."Truman aote

"Mistakes are ainful when they haen, but years later a collection of mistakes iswhat is called e)erience."7enis 0aitley, author and seaker


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"3 word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense"+ames Thurber

"4very word or concet, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range ofalicability."

0erner *arl Heisenberg

He who guards his mouth kees his life, but he who oens wide his lis comes toruin.!roverbs >@:@

"(t is the rovince of knowledge to seak and it is the rivilege of wisdom tolisten."1liver 0endell Holmes, #r.

"(t is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book."2riedrich 5ietsche

"(f you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clearidea."7avid &elasco

"The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. 3ll ( know is what ( havewords for."Ludwig 0ittgenstein

"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and lightning bug."Mark Twain

"0ithin the word we find two dimensions=reflection and action. (f one issacrificed even in art, the other immediately suffers. To seak a true word is totransform the world."!aulo 2reire

"( do not so easily think in words . . . after being hard at work having arrived atresults that are erfectly clear . . . . ( have to translate my thoughts in a languagethat does not run evenly with them."2rancis /alton

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5aoleon Hill

"(f we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it-"3lbert 4instein

"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought."

Henri &ergson

"3n ounce of alication is worth a ton of abstraction."&ooker T. 0ashington

"This reort, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read."0inston hurchill

"0e sometimes get all the information, but we refuse to get the message."ullen Hightower

"(t is good to rub and olish our brain against that of others."Michael 7e Montaigne

"There are eole who want to be everywhere at once . . . and they get nowhere"arl #andburg

"( really lack the words to comliment myself today."3lberto Tomba

"0atch your thoughts, they become words. 0atch your words; they become

actions. 0atch your actions; they become habits. 0atch your habits; they becomecharacter. 0atch your character; it becomes your destiny."2rank 1utlaw

"The temle of our urest thoughts is silence."#arah +. Hale

"1ur intention creates our reality."0ayne 7yer

"( cannot always control what goes on outside. &ut ( can always control what goeson inside."0ayne 7yer

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