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B Paciotti's favorite quotes:
The best of all things is to learn. Money may be lost or stolen,
strength and health may fail; but what you have committed to your mind is yours
forever. Louis L'Amour in "The Walking Drum"
(This is my all-time best quote--It has been displayed,
first in my classroom and now in my school library, for over 13 years.
You may go to France, but you will never become a Frenchman. You may go to
Greece, but you will never become a Greek. You may go to China, but you will
never become a Chinese, to Japan and never become a Japanese. But anyone can
come to America and become an American. That is the greatness of this country we
call the United States of America. Angie Papadakis (from
Reader's Digest)
(This is my second all-time best quote. Think about
this: when other countries' are on the news, they show their pride with
their rulers and/or their military personnel and equipment marching by; in this
country what you see in front of the White House & Capitol Building are crowds
of people protesting. It is freedom that makes people want to come here to
become Americans, and we are richer for it.)
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt
A government that is big enough to give everything to you, is also big enough to take everything from you. Gerald Ford
If a public man tries to get your vote by saying that he will do something wrong in your interest, you can be absolutely certain that if ever it becomes worth his while he will do something wrong against your interest. Theodore Roosevelt, delivered at the Sorbonne, Paris April 23, 1910
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. Buckminster Fuller
Lacking solid evidence of their own, those with their backs to the wall often argue that if skeptics cannot prove that something is not the case, this somehow counts as evidence that it is true. Barry L. Beyerstein
The 6 most important words are "I admit I made a mistake." The 5 most important words are "You did a good job." The 4 most important words are "What is your opinion?" The 3 most important words are "If you please." The 2 most important words are "Thank you." The least important word is "I." David Weiss"
Efficiency is concerned with doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things. Peter F Drucker
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. Walter Cronkite
If students do not learn the way we teach them, we must teach them the way that they will learn. Dr Frank Taylor, educator
We have succeeded in teaching our students how to be taught and what we need to do is to teach them how to learn. Anonymous educator from England, in Alan November's "Empowering Students with Technology"
KIds have a long attention span, but a low tolerance for boredom. (Note on my wall)
If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. (Another note on my wall)
Miscellaneous quips:
I've had a career, companions, cars, kids, and I'd gladly trade them all for one
nice cat!
I feel like such a failure! I've been shopping for over twenty years, and I
still don't have anything to wear!
The only problem with being a woman my age is dating men my age!
(I'm still happily married after 31
years, but I do love this quip!!)
Dinner will be ready when you hear the smoke alarm go off.
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should just relax and
get used to the idea.
It's easy to smile when your ship comes in, and your friends all love you a lot.
But the man who is brave is the man who can smile, when his shorts creep up in a
knot.
Teacher - (n.) an intelligent person who should know better than to spend the
day stuck in a large building with screaming kids.
Poignant view of days gone by...
A man called the Social Security office where I work and requested an estimate of his benefits upon retirement. After I gave him the information, he inquired about his wife's benefits. I asked if she had ever worked. "She has worked all her life making me happy," he replied. That was nice, I commented, but had she ever worked under Social Security? "No," he said. "We made an agreement when we got married. I would make the living and she would make the living worthwhile."
Contributed to Readers Digest by Laura LaClair
J.B.Yeats:
A man and woman should choose each other for life. A long life is
barely enough for a man and woman to understand each other; and to understand is
to love. The man who understands one woman is qualified
to understand pretty well everything.
My quintessential story on giving customers what they want:
A leading architect once built a cluster of office buildings set in a
central green. The landscape crew asked him where he wanted the sidewalks
between the buildings. His reply: "Just plant grass between the
buildings." By late summer the new lawn was laced with pathways of trodden
grass. The paths followed the most efficient line between the points of
connection, turned in easy curves rather than at right angles and were sized
according to traffic flow. In the fall the architect simply paved in the
pathways. Not only did the paths have a design beauty, but they responded
directly to user needs. Christopher Williams in Origins of Form
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