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Apple Seeds – Quotes for Educators
By Barb Stutesman
Apple Seeds posted on the Teacher Chatboard during February 2011
02-01: The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education. ~ Paul E. Gray
02-02: The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears. ~ Bill Vaughn
02-03: Not everything needs to be fixed. ~ Randy Pausch
02-04: Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything. ~ Rev. Billy Graham
02-05: Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
02-06: Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. ~ Theodore Isaac Rubin
02-07: Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
02-08: A good teacher is one who says something that you won’t understand until ten years later. ~ Julius Lester
02-09: No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse. At the same time, it is often within your power to make them better. ~ Randy Pausch
02-10: Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you CAN do! ~ John Wooden
02-11: Discovery consists in seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. ~ Albert von Szent-Gyorgi
02-12: Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. ~ Abraham Lincoln
02-13: A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~ Chinese proverb
02-14: Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice. ~ Nora Roberts
02-15: Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often more accurate than you are willing to believe. ~ Claudia Black
02-16: Time must be explicitly managed, like money. ~ Randy Pausch
02-17: Insist on yourself; never imitate. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
02-18: If I am not I, who will be? ~ Henry David Thoreau
02-19: If you think you can or you think you can’t, you are right. ~ Henry Ford
02-20: Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared to believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. ~ John Barton
02-21: A person is happy so long as s/he chooses to be happy, and nothing can stop her/him. ~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn
02-22: It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. ~ George Washington
02-23: You can always change your plan, but only if you have one. ~ Randy Pausch
02-24: With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. ~ Keshavan Nair
02-25: To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything. ~ Bernadette Devlin
02-26: We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy is when people are afraid of the light. ~ Plato
02-27: The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but no vision. ~ Helen Keller
02-28: Dogs are the most amazing creatures. They give unconditional love. For me, they are the role models for being alive.~ Gilda Radner
