"One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it - you have no certainty until you try." Sophocles
"The mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled." Plutarch
"I had rather face a punk with a gun than an auditor with a pencil." Jack Mills, WSJ 7-21-97
"If you slack off even a little bit, someone will take your place." Hideo Nomo
"Somewhere someone is studying and practicing and preparing. One day you will meet him in competition and, unless you are also prepared, he will win." Author unknown.
"Labor conquers all things." Homer
"If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse .... if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that." Goethe
"Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own peraonal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs." Albert Einstein
"Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have." Author unknown
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit." Aristotle
"If it's illegal or stupid, don't do it." Robert Bird
"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator." Sir Francis Becon
"Creativity springs from having a different attitude toward the world. It accepts nothing as a given and everything as subject to improvement." Derm Barrett
"There are three types of people in this world. Those who can count, and those who can't." Anonymous
"Learning is mankind's greatest pleasure." Plato
"No man can step in the same river twice." Heraclitus
"While the inferior man seeks to put the blame on other persons, bewailing his fate, the superior man seeks the error within himself." I-Ching
"I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand." Author unknown.
"Good judgment comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgment." Author unknown