Monday, May 31, 2010


"Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with."
- Robert Frost

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."
- Robert Frost

Friday, May 28, 2010

"The irony of the Information Age is that it has given new respectability to uninformed opinion."

~ Veteran reporter John Lawton, speaking to the American Association of Broadcast Journalists in 1995
"You teach best what you most need to learn." 


Richard Bach
"Teaching is a difficult profession. Artful teaching has a short shelf life that is not always respected by unions or the granters of tenure. Former libertine artists can be persuaded, as teachers, to cling for dear life to security. I recommend teaching contracts of no more than five years. Much less if the flame is burning low. The widespread practice of impassive teaching quells student curiosity and hatches dullards. Teachers need to be learners."


Robert Genn

Thursday, May 27, 2010

"Genuine security arises from actual, first-hand knowledge that one is both capable and worthy of achieving happiness (through conscious, responsible action) and, once having attained it, that he deserves it."

-- Michael J. Hurd
"One must work and dare if one really wants to live." 
~ Vincent Van Gogh
"Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner, and for the right purpose.  Thus, to give money away is quite a simple task, but for the act to be virtuous, the donor must give to the right person, for the right purpose, in the right amount, in the right manner, and at the right time.

-- Aristotle

Sunday, May 16, 2010

"The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving."
-Albert Einstein
"Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?"

-Martin Luther King Jr.
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

-Theodore Roosevelt
"If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one."


-Mother Teresa

Saturday, May 15, 2010

"To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant, because you're always going agains the conformity of the group. 

Heroes are ordinary people whose social action is Extra-Ordinary who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism."

~ Philip Zimbardo

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

"Some people say that dreaming gets you nowhere in life. But I say you
can't get anywhere in life without dreaming."

-- Rose Zadra
“How odd it is that anyone should not see that all observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service” 


~ Charles Darwin

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader."


~Robert Frost
"For those who can cry, I say, be proud. Humanity is in your tears."
~ Robert Genn, Canadian Painter

Friday, May 07, 2010

"It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain himself. "

~ Epicurus

Thursday, May 06, 2010

Monday, May 03, 2010

"The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person."


~ Ralph Waldo Emerson