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"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller "When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another." - Helen Keller "The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different - to realize whatever unique potential of a body, mind and spirit he or she possesses." - John Fishcer "At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me." - Barnaby C. Keeney "Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient." - Eugene S. Wilson "We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least." - David P. Gardner "Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure." - William Saroyan "The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children." - Louis Johannot "Mistakes are the portal of discovery." - James Joyce "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." - Carl Jung "Few have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work
to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts
will be written the history of this generation. It is from numberless diverse
acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man
stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes
out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and, crossing
each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those
ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression
and resistance." - Robert F. Kennedy
-------- "The Ripple Effect" - John Heider, "The Tao of Leadership": Do you want to be a positive influence in the world? First, get your own life in order. Ground yourself in the single principle so that your behavior is wholesome and effective. If you do that, you will earn respect and be a powerful influence. Your behavior influences others through a ripple effect. A ripple effect works because everyone influences everyone else. Powerful people are powerful influences. If your life works, you influence your family. If your family works, your family influences the community. If your community works, your community influences the nation. If your nation works, your nation influences the world. If your world works, the ripple effect spreads throughout the cosmos. Remember that your influence begins with you and ripples outward. So be sure that your influence is both potent and wholesome. How do I know that this works? All growth spreads outward from a fertile and potent nucleus. You are a nucleus. --------------- Northeastern Illinois University
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