“Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.”
― Harry S. Truman
Leadership
October 22, 2015 by
Gratitude
October 21, 2015 by
“I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.”
Toni Morrison
Teaching
October 19, 2015 by
“When you study great teachers… you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.”
William Glasser
Humor
October 18, 2015 by
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
Jim Henson
Education
October 17, 2015 by
“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys – to woo women – and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.”
N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society
Leadership
October 15, 2015 by
“Both positive and negative thinking are contagious.”
Stephen Richards, The Secret of Getting Started: Strategies to Triumph over Procrastination
Confidence
October 14, 2015 by
“It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didnt.”
Martin Van Buren
Character
October 13, 2015 by
“Don’t blame others. it won’t make you a better person.”
Lolly Daskal, The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness
“Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.”
― Napoleon Hill