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Get the Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jim Rohn,
www.jimrohn.com"While you are in school, make sure you get the information. What you think about it, that’s up to you. What you are going to do with it that will soon be up to you. But while you are there, make sure you get it. In fact, my advice is—Don’t leave school without it!"
On Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dr. Roger Rowe
"Education is to be aware of the uniqueness of each individual and to treat that uniqueness with loving concern. To provide each student with the opportunities appropriate to his or her abilities and interests. To encourage each individual to develop an ‘I Will, I Can’ attitude. To help kids go a step above and beyond what they themselves, or others, might expect of them."
To Find Meaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alfred Kazin
Literary critic Alfred Kazin describes that narcissism has become the official national ideology. "Our hope is in a recovery of a sense of the sacred community where people find meaning in more than ‘doing their own thing.’"
3 Ways to Study Scripture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fr. Brian Cavanaugh, TOR
- gathering of facts & data; of people, places and events…head knowledge.
Informational:
- : enkindling of inner fire to be led by God’s Word…heart knowledge.
Inspirational
- : Word becomes deeply rooted within and bears abundant fruit through words and deeds…spirit knowledge.
Incarnational
Pinch of Praise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . William Arthur Ward
"A pinch of praise is worth a pound of scorn. A dash of encouragement is more helpful than a dipper of pessimism. A cup of kindness is better than a cupboard of criticism."
Ask the Question . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vin Di Bona,
The Aladdin Factor, p. 217"Most other people don’t know any more than I do, but they are afraid to ask because they think they’ll look stupid: I was not afraid to say, ‘You know what, I don’t understand.’"
A Sense of Liberation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Archbishop Oscar Romero,
CATHOLIC DIGEST, July, 1993, p. 75"We cannot do everything, and there is a sense in realizing that. This enables us to do something, and to do it very well. It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way. We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the Master Builder and the worker."
Knowing When . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Disraeli
"Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage."
To be Successful . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Earl Nightingale,
INSIGHT, # 52, p. 24"Any human being on earth can be successful if one will decide, once and for all, what it is one wants to accomplish—and really define it, write it out right down to the last comma and period—and then go after it, relentlessly, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year until it is accomplished."
Quality of Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M. Scott Peck, A World Waiting To Be Born, p. 276
"Specifically…community requires communication—and not the mere exchange of words, but high-quality communication. The quality of group communication is so poor in our typical…organizations that I designate them as pseudo-communities or pretend communities. For the most part, keeping their interaction both light and polite, their members are only pretending to communicate. A genuine community, on the other hand, is a group whose members have made a commitment to communicate with one another on an ever more deep and authentic level. There are very few true communities."
On Spiritual Joy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Celano, Second Life of St. Francis
"St. Francis was sure that spiritual joy is the safest remedy against the thousand snares and wiles of the enemy. He used to say, ‘The devil is most happy when he can snatch from a servant of God true joy of the spirit. He carries dust with him to throw into the smallest chinks of conscience and thus soil one’s mental candor and purity of life. But if joy of the spirit fills the heart, the serpent shoots his deadly venom in vain.’"
A Great Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Reggie Jackson
"I’ll tell you what makes a great coach: a great coach has a knack for making athletes think they are better than they think they are. He forces you to have a good opinion of yourself. A coach lets you know he believes in you. A coach makes you get more out of yourself. And once you learn how good you really are, you never settle for anything less than your very best."
Wisdom Seeds
"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would have preferred to talk."
Doug Larson
"A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave five minutes longer."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sense of Wonder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Paul Woolard,
SOUNDINGS, Sept. 1990, p. 23"Keep your sense of wonder. I suggest that you maintain that sense of wonder and that feeling of discovery, it is the road to success. That is what fires the imagination. That is what powers your perseverance and inspires the creativity that the world lacks."
Enhance Your Self-Esteem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zig Ziglar,
INSIGHT, # 70, p. 32"Motivation and positive thinking won’t work for the individual who does not believe that he or she is capable of doing anything. If one doesn’t see oneself as a winner he or she cannot perform as a winner."
Adolescence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Colleen L. Reece,
Youth Update, Jan. ‘89"Adolescence is a time when that longing to stand up and take control of your life is struggling to be born, and not to be denied."
Why Give a Speech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Craig Sweet, E
MPHASIS, Nov./Dec. 1992It’s been said that when Dwight (Ike) Eisenhower was president of the United States he never liked to give a speech unless it had a purpose. Speaking just to speak was not what Ike was interested in. His White House speech writer would say that after the drafts were prepared he would go in to meet with the president and go over the speech.
While it is a popular image of President Eisenhower that he was genial…Ike was a pointed questioner and knew exactly what he wanted to say. He would always say at some point in these meetings with his speech writer, "Well, Arthur, what’s the Q.E.D.?" Which stand for the Latin quod erat demonstrandum—meaning "That which was to be demonstrated or proved." Ike would tell his speech writer, "Why give a speech, if you don’t want the audience to take away a specific message?"
A Place For You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Is There Any Word From God? Voicings Publ.
In his book , A Place For You, the Swiss psychologist Paul Tournier, tells of a young student with whom he had formed a deep friendship. "One day, he was…telling me of his difficulties," Tournier writes, "of the anxiety that never left him, and which at times turned to panic and flight. He was trying to look objectively at what was going on inside himself and to understand it. Then, as if summing up his thoughts, he looked up at me and said, ‘Basically, I’m always looking for a place—somewhere to be,’"
That student constantly was trying to attach himself to a group or a community of some kind. Occasionally he would have the impression that at last he was in, part of the crowd, but such feelings quickly disappeared…He had looked…in search of inspiration but saw only a commitment to empty convention and staus quo.
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