The following a thoughts and quotes I find enlightening and in some cases humorous:
- Work is the thing that happens between vacations. – Unknown
- Education is the process of going from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty. – Unknown
- Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who has said it, even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your reason and your own common sense. – Buddha
- Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. – Malcolm Forbes
- Failure is not an option; it’s just a nagging possibility that helps me stay focused! – Unknown
- “Begin at the beginning,” the King said gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” – Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
- A diploma is evidence of our competence. Sometimes it’s the only evidence. – Cullen Hightower
- Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. – William James
- The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living. – Charles F. Kettering
- I always try to tell them that it’s what you learn after you know it all that really counts. – Harry S Truman
- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. – George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
- When you can’t change the direction of the wind- adjust your sails. – H. Jackson Brown, Sr.
- You are the same today that you’ll be five years from now except for two things; the people you meet and the books you read. – Mac McMillan
- Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible. – Colin Powell
- Plans don’t accomplish work. Goal charts on wall don’t accomplish work … it is people who get things done. – Colin Powell
- Project Managers manage things and lead people. – JC Henderson
- Chance favors the prepared mind. – Louis Pasteur
