Apple Seeds...
by Barb Erickson
Every morning Barb/MI posts an inspiring or thought-provoking quotation we refer to as an "Apple Seed" on the main chatboard http://teachers.net/chatboard. The "Apple Seeds" she posted during the month of June are compiled here.
June 2003
Su, 06-01:
Where are you going? What are you doing to get there?
~ Unknown
Mo, 06-02:
If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow.
~ Ovid
Tu, 06-03:
Happy are those whose life is today.
~ Ayi Kwei Armah
We, 06-04:
Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities -- that's training or instruction -- but is rather a making visible of what is hidden as a seed.
~ Thomas Moore
Th, 06-05:
Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.
~ Jean Toomer
Fr, 06-06:
In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message . . . the drawing out, and not the pumping in.
~ Ashley Montague
Sa, 06-07:
All growth is a leap in the dark.
~ Henry Miller
Su, 06-08:
Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.
~ Lorraine Hansberry
Mo, 06-09:
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
~ James Joyce
Tu, 06-10:
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never fires, and a touch that never hurts.
~ Charles Dickens
We, 06-11:
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg -- not by smashing it.
~ Ellen Glasgow
Th, 06-12:
Adversity causes some people to break, others to break records.
~ William A. Ward
Fr, 06-13:
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
~ Charlie Finley
Sa, 06-14:
You have no control over what the other person does. You only have control over what you do.
~ A. J. Kitt
Su, 06-15:
We keep going back, stronger, not weaker, because we will not allow rejection to beat us down. It will only strengthen our resolve. To be successful there is no other way.
~ Earl S. Graves
Mo, 06-16:
Memory is the cabinet of imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and the council chamber of thought.
~ St. Basil
Tu, 06-17:
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We, 06-18:
Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality.
~ Belva Davis
Th, 06-19:
The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
Fr, 06-20:
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
~ Moliere
Sa, 06-21:
We are what we repeatedly do.
~ Aristotle
Su, 06-22:
Afflictions are the steps to heaven.
~ Elizabeth Seton
Mo, 06-23:
Ideas shape the course of history.
~ John Keynes
Tu, 06-24:
Exceed expectations. We are not driven to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.
~ Bishop Gore
We, 06-25:
The soul that has no established aim loses itself.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Th, 06-26:
We are all wanderers on this earth. Our hearts are full of wonder and our souls are deep within dreams.
~ Gypsy saying
Fr, 06-27:
Action must be taken at once; there is no time to be lost.
~ Miguel Hildalgo
Sa, 06-28:
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
~ Basil King
Su, 06-29:
It takes all sorts to make a world.
~ English proverb
Mo, 06-30:
The eleventh commandment:Don't let them scare you.
~ Unknown
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