The real preparation to education is the study of one’s self. The training of the teacher is something far more than learning ideas. It includes the training of character. It is a preparation of the spirit.
~Maria Montessori
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Quotes – Attitude and Opportunity
Only in America could you find a way to earn a healthy buck; And still keep your attitude on self-destruct.
~MF DOOM
Quotes – A Well-Ordered World
The ancients who wished to illustrate illustrious virtue throughout the Kingdom, first ordered well their own states. Wishing to order well their states, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things.
Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their hearts being rectified, their persons were cultivated. Their persons being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their families being regulated, their states were rightly governed. Their states being rightly governed, the whole kingdom was made tranquil and happy.
From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything besides.
~Confucius
Quotes – Busyness vs. Productivity
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
~Socrates
Quotes – The Meaning of Routine
Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.
~W. H. Auden
Quotes – Knowledge vs. Wisdom
To attain knowledge add things every day. To attain wisdom subtract things every day.
~Lao-tzu
Quotes – Single-mindedness
To follow, without halt, one aim: there is the secret to success.
~Anna Pavlova
Quotes – Working In Peace
Without great solitude no serious work is possible.
~Pablo Picasso
Quotes – Learned Helplessness
When we forget our ability to choose, we learn to be helpless.
~Greg McKeown
Quotes – Excelling In Trivialities
Anger, spite, malice, impatience, and a vehement desire of getting the better in a concern wherein it were more excusable to be ambitious of being overcome; for to be eminent, to excel above the common rate in frivolous things, nowise befits a man of honor. What I say in this example may be said in all others. Every particle, every employment of man manifests him equally with any other.
~Michel de Montaigne
