Teaching; Teams/Teamwork; Temptation; Thought/Thinking/Reason;  Time; Trust; Truth     Values; Vision/Mission/Purpose   TEACHING To know how to suggest is the art of teaching. ~Henri-Frederic Amiel A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. ~Thomas Carruthers You teach best what you most need to learn. ~Richard Bach The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ~William Arthur Ward Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. ~Ernest Hemingway I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ~Mark Twain Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn. ~William J. Durant The man who can make hard things easy is the educator. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. ~Mark Van Doren, poet The biggest enemy to learning is the talking teacher. ~John Holt It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well. ~Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Swiss philosopher An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. ~Carl Jung The teacher if he is indeed wise does not teach bid you to enter the house of wisdom but leads you to the threshold of your own mind. ~Kahlil Gilbran Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach. ~Albert Einstein Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. ~John Cotton Dana The most important part of teaching: to teach what it is to know. ~Simone Weil, French philosopher You cannot teach a man anything.; you can only help him to find it for himself. ~Galileo Galilei TEAMS/TEAMWORK Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. ~Henry Ford You have to do it by yourself, and you can’t do it alone. ~Martin Rutte You don’t have a team until everyone’s been heard. ~Arturo Toscanini We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately. ~Benjamin Franklin Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. ~Helen Keller The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out. ~James Baldwin The Lessons of the Geese Next fall, when you see geese heading south for the winter, flying along in “V” formation, you might consider what science has discovered about why they fly that way. As each bird flaps its wings, it creates an uplift for the bird immediately following. By flying in “V” formation, the whole flock adds at least 71 percent greater flying range than if each bird flew on its own. When a goose falls out of formation, it suddenly feels the drag and resistance of trying to go it alone—and quickly gets back into formation to take advantage of the lifting power of the bird in front. When the head goose gets tired, it rotates back in the formation and is replaced in the lead position by another goose. The geese honk from behind to encourage those up front to keep up their speed. Finally—and this is important—when a goose gets sick, or is wounded by gunshot, and falls out of formation, two other geese will follow it down to lend help and protection. They say with the fallen goose until it is able to fly or until it dies; and only then do they launch out on their own, or with another formation to catch up with their own group. Geese have much to teach humankind: People who share a common direction and sense of community can get where they’re going more quickly and easily, because they are travelling on the thrust of one another; It pays to stick together with others who are headed in the same direction we are; It makes sense to share the toughest jobs; Those who are breaking the trail need our encouragement; “Community” is built when we are willing to stand up for and protect each other in times of need. top of page TEMPTATION Don't worry about temptation - as you grow older, it starts avoiding you. ~Farmer's Almanac THOUGHT, THINKING, REASON Let us admit the case of the conservative; if we once start thinking, no one can guarantee where we shall come out; except that many ends, objects and institutions are doomed. Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril, and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place. ~John Dewey Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live) ~Marcus Tullius Cicero Few people think more than two or three times a year. I've made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. ~George Bernard Shaw The spirit of the age is filled with disdain for thinking. ~Albert Schweitzer The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. ~Paul Fix All that we are is the result of what we have thought. ~Buddha A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. ~William James Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think, and suspicious of men who try to. ~H. Mumford Jones Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think. ~Ambrose Bierce When the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to treat everything as if it were a nail. ~Abraham Maslow The obscure we see eventually. The completely apparent takes longer. ~E. R. Murrow Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think. ~Doug Horton The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions. ~Antony Jay Man's mind, stretched to a new idea, never goes back to its original dimension. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes It takes a very unusual mind to make an analysis of the obvious. ~Alfred North Whitehead He who will not reason is a bigot, he who cannot is a fool; he who dares not is a slave. ~William Drummond top of page TIME Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.~Benjamin Franklin The trouble with being punctual is that nobody is there to appreciate it. Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.~C. C. Colton You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.~Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once.~Unknown Time is... Too slow for those who Wait, Too swift for those who Fear, Too long for those who Grieve, Too short for those who Rejoice; But for those who Love, time is eternity. You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.~Charles Buxton Time exists so everything doesn't happen at once. Space exists so everything doesn't happen to you. ~Unknown top of page TRUST Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work. ~Warren Bennis One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. ~E.M. Forster Trust means, ' I know that you will not —deliberately or accidentally, consciously or unconsciously—take unfair advantage of me.' It means, 'I can put my situation at the moment, my status and self-esteem in the group, our relationship, my job, my career, even my life in your hands with complete confidence.' ~Douglas McGregor, in The Professional Manager The observance of hope is trust. ~James O'Toole Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together. The accumulation of trust is a measure of the legitimacy of leadership. It cannot be mandated or purchased; it must be earned. Trust is the basic ingredient of all organizations, the lubrication that maintains the organization. ~Warren Bennis & Burt Nanus, in Leaders: The Strategies for Taking Charge When a leader gives one ounce of trust to a group of people, one pound is returned. ~William Lundin & Kathleen Lundin, in The Healing Manager Leaders need to practice five critical behaviours to build trust through open communication: Be positive Seek others' ideas Listen Disclose Don't shoot the messanger. ~James Kouzes & Barry Posner, in Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It; Why People Demand It. The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them. ~Camillo Benso Conte Di Cavour Trust is a delicate property of human relationships. It is influenced far more by actions than by words. It takes a long time to build, but can be destroyed very quickly. Even a single action —perhaps misunderstood— can have powerful effects. ~Douglas McGregor I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. ~Henry David Thoreau The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him. ~Henry L. Stimson Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him. ~Booker T. Washington You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough. ~Frank Crane TRUTH You never find yourself until you face the truth. ~Pearl Bailey The greatest truths are the simplest. ~A.W. Hare People stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. ~Sir Winston Churchill) The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. ~Albert Einstein In this world of misery, disease, old age, and death, there is no other protection, refuge or help than our own practise of the truth. Others are powerless; as we sow we reap. ~Quoted in 'Jainism' The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. ~Niels Bohr It takes two to speak the truth,--one to speak, and another to hear. ~Henry David Thoreau A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. ~St. Augustine top of page VALUES A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business. ~Henry Ford Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well. ~Francois duc la Rochefoucauld The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice. ~Max Nordau Just because I was born doesn't give me the right to scorn and devalue you or let you try to diminish me. Instead, my rights are to make sure that I control myself and recognize your right to control yourself. ~Nellie Curtiss A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better. ~Benjamin Disraeli Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet. ~Unknown Everywhere in life the true question is, not what we have gained, but what we do. (Carlyle) The time is always right to do what is right. Martin Luther King Jr. I live for those who love me, for those who know me true; For the heaven that smiles above me, and awaits my spirit too; For the cause that lacks assistance, for the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, and the good that I can do. (George Linnaeus Banks) Safety doesn’t lie in the absence of danger or in our capacity to control the world at large, but rather in our ability to shape whatever happens to us. Dawna Markova The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke Experience is not what happens to you; it what you DO with what happens to you. (Aldous Huxley) I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. (Wolfgang Von Goethe) I have learned this at least by my experiments: that if you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams, and endeavour to live the life you have imagined, you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. (Henry David Thoreau) Let the beauty of what you love be what you do (Rumi) Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. (Henry David Thoreau) Show up in all ways. Pay attention to what has heart and meaning. Tell the truth without judgement or blame. Do not be attached to outcomes, but be open to outcomes. (Angeles Arrien, The Four-Fold Way) The wisest keeps something of the vision of a child. Though he may understand a thousand things that a child could not understand, he is always a beginner, close to the original meaning of life. (John Macy) Truth, self control, asceticism, generosity, non-injury, constancy in virtue - these are the means of success, not caste or family. Mahabharata (Hindu) It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done. Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. (Oswald Spengler) To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life. (Robert Louis Stevenson) To affect the quality of the day —that is the highest of the arts. (Henry David Thoreau) top of page VISION/MISSION/PURPOSE In all undertakings we must press on in mind to the successful result. We must see in mind the thing completed, the undertaking advancing and ever growing stronger. ~Prentice Mulford If you don't know where you are going, it doesn't matter what road you take. Lewis Carroll If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost —that is where they should be— now put foundations under thee. ~Henry David Thoreau The world steps aside to let any man pass if he knows where he is going. ~David S. Jordan Visualization is worth the other ten steps to success. Brian Tracy The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination. ~Robert Collier If you want to get away from poverty, you must keep your mind in a productive, creative condition. In order to do this you must think confident, cheerful, creative thoughts. The model must precede the statue. You must see a new world before you can live in it. ~O.S. Marden Successful people are clear about who they want to be. Begin thinking about yourself as you would like to be. ~Brian Tracy Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world. ~Joel Barker In order to succeed we must first believe that we can. Michael Korda If you set the right vision, you can steer the boat from the back. ~Unknown In every block of marble I see a statue, See it plainly as though it stood before me, Shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls Which imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to other eyes, as mine already see it. ~Michelangelo Buonarroti You'll see it when you believe it. Wayne Dyer The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. ~Ayn Rand The best in art and life comes from a center Something urgent and powerful – An ideal or emotion that insists on its being. From that insistence a shape emerges And creates its structure out of passion. If you begin with a structure You have to make up the passion. And that is very difficult. ~Roger Rosenblat (Essayist) top of page

 

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