Forward progress?

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

~ Buckminster Fuller

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

~ George Burns

Begin with the End in Mind

I write about people who sometime in their life have a vision or dream of something that should be accomplished and they go to work. They are beaten over the head, knocked down, vilified, and for years they get nowhere. But every time they're knocked down they stand up. You cannot destroy these people. And at the end of their lives they've accomplished some modest part of what they set out to do.

~ Irving Stone, American writer and biographer

Manipulating for College Student Diversity

Show me a college where most of the learning results from exposure to other students, and I’ll show you an institution that isn’t worth the tuition it charges.

~ Roger Clegg in
Chronicle of Higher Education

Ben, on education

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Definitions: Creativity, Art, Success, Happiness

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

~ Scott Adams

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

~Dale Carnegie

Trekkies and Wisdom

We're just very proud to honor Dad with this star. A lot of Star Trek fans helped us out with this.

--Chris Doohan, whose father, James Doohan--Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery Scott on the original 60's series--received a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame. The event was expected to be the final public appearance for the 84-year-old actor, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

--Theodore Roosevelt

How to Measure What is Worthwhile

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
~ Thomas Edison

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
~ Vincent Van Gogh

Talent

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.

~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

~ Publius Syrus

(editor's note: if you get from the second one that it's foolish to be silent, you should read it again... -K)

Messing Things Up

Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools.

~ Gene Brown

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment.

~ Theodore H. White

Wrong Way to be Right

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

~ Edward de Bono

Attitudes

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
~ Marcus Aurelius

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
~ Thomas Alva Edison

Friendship

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

~ Susan Ertz

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

~ Arthur Brisbane

What is... And is Not

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

~ A.A. Milne

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

~ Eleanor Chaffee

Not Just Your Best

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

~ Winston Churchill

Stupidity

If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

~ Will Rogers

What Kind of Object...

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: Those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost.

~ Russell Baker

New Illiteracy

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

~ Alvin Toffler

So what did they say?

"To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains."

--Mary Pettibone Poole

Einstein Counting

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

--Albert Einstein

Common sense

"Common sense is not so common."

- Voltaire