Words
Food for thought, whether you agree or not...
There is no such thing as a monolingual scholar.
Those for whom words have lost their value are likely to find that ideas have also lost their value."
-Edwin Newman Strictly Speaking
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't
go away. -Philip K. Dick
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow
mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these
accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and
things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one corner of the
earth all one's life.
-Mark Twain
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. -Marcel Proust
By not judging, we release the past and let go of our fears of the future. In so doing we come to see that everyone is our teacher and that every circumstance is an opportunity for growth in happiness, peace, and love.
-Gerald G. Jampolsky
He who lets the small things bind him leaves the great undone behind him. -Scandinavian proverb
When you cease to dream you cease to live. -Malcolm S. Forbes
The tragedy of life is not death, but what dies inside us while we live... -Norman Cousins
The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him...the unreasonable man adapts the surrounding conditions to himself...all progress depends on the reasonable man. -George Bernard Shaw
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it...
-Somerset Maugham
You never really lose until you quit trying. -Mike Ditka
In the mountains of truth you never climb in vain. -Nietzsche
Do not equate money with success. There are many successful moneymakers who are miserable failures as human beings. What counts is how a person achieves it. -Lloyd Shearer
No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe be the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, becasue I am invovled in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. -John Donne
What is man without the beasts? If all beasts were gone men would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts soon happens to man - all things are connected. -Chief Seattle
There is nothing permanent except change. -Heraclitas
Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. -Helen Keller
Risk
To laugh is to risk appearing the fool
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental
To reach out for another is to risk involvement
To expose feelings is to risk exposing our true self
To place your ideas, your dreams before the crowd is to risk loss
To love is to risk not being loved in return
To live is to risk dying
To hope is to risk despair
To try at all is to risk failure
But to risk we must, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing,
The man, the woman, who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing,
Is Nothing.
-Unknown
Creativity:
ability to use information in a new, original and meaningful way
Creativity is...
...being willing to take chances
...not accepting limitations
...trying to do the impossible
...appreciating art and music
...being capable of using the materials around you to make unique things
...questioning social norms and assumptions
...being willing to take an unpopular stand
...being inquisitive
...expertise
...imaginative thinking skills
...an adventuresome personality
...intrinsic motivation
Intelligence:
the ability to know
Why do intelligent people fail?
Lack of motivation.
Lack of impulse control.
Lack of perseverance.
Use wrong abilities.
Inability to translate thought into action.
Lack of product orientation.
Inability to complete tasks.
Failure to initiate.
Fear of failure.
Procrastination.
Misattribution of blame.
Excessive self-pity.
Excessive dependency.
Wallowing in personal difficulties.
Distractibility and lack of concentration.
Spreading oneself too thin or too thick.
Inability to delay gratification.
Inability to see the forest through the trees.
Lack of balance between critical, analytical thinking and creative, synthetic thinking.
Too little or too much self-confidence.
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