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  • #1
    Paulo Coelho
    “It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #2
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #3
    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    George Eliot

  • #4
    Joseph Conrad
    “Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
    Joseph Conrad, Chance

  • #5
    Paulo Coelho
    “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #6
    C.S. Lewis
    “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #7
    Neil Gaiman
    “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #8
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  • #9
    At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.
    “At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.”
    Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

  • #10
    Albert Einstein
    “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #11
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #12
    Dr. Seuss
    “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
    Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

  • #13
    Albert Einstein
    “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #14
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #15
    Robert Frost
    “I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
    Robert Frost

  • #16
    Jim Henson
    “[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
    Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

  • #17
    Socrates
    “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
    Socrates

  • #18
    Stanley Kubrick
    “I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.”
    Stanley Kubrick

  • #19
    Aristotle
    “Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.”
    Aristotle

  • #20
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Learning never exhausts the mind.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #21
    J.A. Konrath
    “One of the greatest journeys in life is overcoming insecurity and learning to truly not give a shit.”
    J. A. Konrath

  • #22
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.”
    Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

  • #23
    Albert Einstein
    “It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #24
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #25
    Brigham Young
    “Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.”
    Brigham Young

  • #26
    Abigail Adams
    “Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”
    Abigail Adams

  • #27
    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

    [Undelivered remarks for Dallas Trade Mart, November 22 1963]
    John F. Kennedy

  • #28
    The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
    “The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”
    B.B. King

  • #29
    Dan    Brown
    “Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand.”
    Dan Brown

  • #30
    Spencer W. Kimball
    “We learn to do by doing.”
    Spencer W. Kimball



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