I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could. I can make a C+ feel like a Congressional medal of honor and an A- feel like a slap in the face. How dare you waste my time with anything less than your very best. - Taylor Mali You want to know what I make? I [...]
Every mans life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain. – Marcus Aurelius Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom [...]
To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort. – Gene Kranz You can not operate in this room unless you believe that you are Superman, and whatever happens, you’re capable of solving the problem. – Gene Kranz What [...]
And when that bad news washes over you, and when that pain sponges and soaks in, I just really hope you feel like you’ve always got two choices. One, you can swirl and twirl and gloom and doom forever, or two, you can grieve and then face the future with newly sober eyes. Having a [...]
For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. – John F. Kennedy Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there [...]
More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather. – James Earl Jones One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t utter. - James Earl Jones What was his unique style or personality that set him [...]
Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning. – Mohandas Gandi The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness [...]
Be aware of “yes” men. Generally, they are losers. Surround yourself with winners. Never forget – people win. – Bear Bryant There’s a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success. – Bear Bryant What was his unique style or personality that set him apart from everyone else? * Man of Action * [...]
What I’ve come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion, everyday acts of compassion. –Chris Abani I was a wimp. I cried for a very long time. And afterwards, he didn’t say a word, he just [...]
One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life. – Julius Erving aka Dr. J In a lot of areas of my life, particularly in my teenage years, I began to think [...]
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover – Mark Twain It ain’t what you don’t know that gets [...]
The disease has been devastating for so many. Raising false hope would add insult to injury. – David Ho I think genuine scientific disagreement is healthy. That’s how we move science forward. And, yes there are certain people who would disagree with me about how, say, the lymphocytes are specifically destroyed by HIV, so the [...]
So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it’s a positive one. – Sidney Poitier But [...]
My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost. – Richard Branson A generation ago, the image was that you had to trample everyone else [...]
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward! – Thomas Edison Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these [...]
