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Liberal Arts Education. . . . . . . . . . . . . Dr. Albert Einstein, Denis Brian, Einstein, a Life, p. 129
"A person doesn’t need to go to college to learn facts. He can get them from books. The value of a liberal arts college education is that it trains the mind to think."
On Reading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Charlie "Tremendous" Jones
"Five years from now you will be the same person as you are now except for two things, the books you read and the people you meet."
Our Greatest Danger. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the U.S.A.
"…When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
…There is no such thing as a no-man’s land between honesty and dishonesty. Our strength lies in spiritual concepts. It lies in public sensitiveness to evil.…
Our greatest danger is not from invasion by foreign armies. Our dangers are that we may commit suicide from within by complaisance with evil, or by public tolerance of scandalous behavior.…"
Every Success…. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anonymous, motivational-messages.com
"Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough."
Questions Enlighten Us . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Descouvertes de la Salle, Powerquotes: Vol. 4, # 128
"It’s not the answers that enlighten us, but the questions."
A Way of Prayer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Word Among Us, 8-85
"We will find true prayer when we awaken within us the desire to find God. Ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened to you. We get caught up in so many other desires that our longing for God is drowned out by them."
Dreams Must Be Vivid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jim Rohn, www.jimrohn.com
"Dreams are a projection of the kind of life you want to lead. Dreams can drive you. Dreams can make you skip over obstacles. When you allow your dreams to pull you, they unleash a creative force that can overpower any obstacle in your path. To unleash this power, though, your dreams must be well defined. A fuzzy future has little pulling power. Well-defined dreams are not fuzzy. Wishes are fuzzy. To really achieve your dreams, to really have your future plans pull you forward, your dreams must be vivid."
A Positive Difference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cal Ripken, Jr.
"If you are going to make a difference, you might as well make it a positive one."
For Visual Learners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Source Unknown
"85% of what we learn and remember comes to us through our senses;
11% comes to us through our ears;
3—4% comes to us through our other senses."
No-Nonsense Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Richard Sloma
"We live, at best, in a 95% world. We seek perfection, but it successfully eludes all of us. Far too often, we achieve results well short of even the 95% level potential available. But 95% is not really all that bad!
Above all lead! By example, show your people that you are not going to do a number on them if they only hit 95% on the first attempt. It is enough to sustain them while they pursue the last 5%, if that last 5% is really worth the effort. (But remember: it just might be better to get another 95% instead)."
On Civility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M. Scott Peck, A World Waiting To Be Born, p. 54
"The definition of civility implies that the higher authority, or God’s will—the ethical imperative—is frequently at odds with either the individual’s will or the organization’s goals or both. And so it is. We often must work out such conflicts in fear and trembling.…Civility is never painless.…Incivility comes easily. Nonetheless, relatively and understandably rare though it may be, civility is the path of growth, the road to personal and collective salvation and healing. Civility is hardly the only way to live, but it is the only way worthwhile."
Charity and Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . St. Francis de Sales
"To love our neighbor in charity is to love God in man."
The Moral Compass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . William Bennett
"Much of life is a moral and spiritual journey, and it makes no sense to send young people forth on such a journey having offered them only some timid, vacillating opinions about proper conduct. We must give our children better equipment than that. We must offer them unequivocal, reliable standards of right and wrong, noble and base, just and unjust. We must treat life as a moral endeavor."
Prayer for Today . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Source Unknown
"O God of Truth, deliver us.
From the cowardice that shrinks from new truths,
From the laziness that is content with half-truths,
From the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth,
O God of Truth, deliver us. Amen."
Searching for Wisdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FAITH TODAY, 5-16-85
Education and contemplation—working things out in one’s own mind, thinking things through without distractions—can foster wisdom. So can listening to the wisdom in adages and stories passed on from generation to generation."
A Sacred Pilgrimage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andy Fraenkel, "Stories of the Spirit,"
Natl. Storytelling Directory—1996, p. 118"Sacred stories are those of transformation, they are stories that draw us closer to what I call the Lord Within The Heart, and they help us to see our connection to all things. There’s a saying in the Jewish tradition that the shortest distance between man and God is through a story. So if storytelling is a journey, sacred storytelling is a pilgrimage—a pilgrimage to a place called Hope."
People Who Live . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Harry Marsh, Bits & Pieces, Vol. 20, # 10, p. 8
"Nature does not give to those who will not spend; her gifts are loaned to those who will use them. Empty your lungs and breathe. Run, climb, work, and laugh; the more you give out the more you shall receive. Participate. People do not really live for honors or for pay; their happiness is not in the taking and holding, but in the doing, the striving, the building, the serving."
Music & Team Building . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Source Unknown
A world famous violin virtuoso was on campus for an artist-in-residence program. One day, while at lunch, he discussed what he perceived to be a similarity between playing great music and team building.
Said the violinist, "I have splendid music, a splendid instrument and a splendid bow. Now, all I have to do is bring them together, just so, and get out of the way."
The Campaign Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nathan Miller (adapted), Booknotes: Life Stories, p. 157
"When you hear talk about how tough the campaign trail is, they must be talking about the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt.
"Campaigning in Milwaukee in 1912 for a third term…Roosevelt was shot by John Schrank, a somewhat deranged, anti-third term fanatic.
"As Roosevelt later said…he remembered what he’d once been told when he was in the army—to [try to] cough up blood to see if he’d been wounded internally. He didn’t cough up blood, so he knew that it was not a very serious wound.
"He immediately demanded to be taken to the hall where he was to give a speech and stood up for ninety minutes giving the speech while he had a bullet in his chest. Blood was pouring over the front of his shirt. Then he allowed himself to be taken to the hospital. He said it took more than that to kill a bull moose."That’s what gave a new name to that third party, to the Progressive Party, which became known as the Bull Moose party"
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