Marcia�s Favorite Quotations & Sites from 1997 & 1998
| Quotation of the Month | Site of the Month
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December 1998 | �Growth and joy are more about being perceptive than competitive, more about being guided than about being gifted. And we should worry more about not feeling than about not failing.� �Richard M. Eyre, Spiritual Serendipity: Cultivating and Celebrating the Art of the Unexpected | |||
November | Peter Drucker said that �Actions in the present are the only way to make a future.� We may not be able to predict the future, but we can help make it happen. To do so, we must have a rough idea in mind of what the future could be like, along with an understanding of the assumptions that underlie all the alternatives. �Vincent P. Barabba, GM. �Revisiting Plato�s Cave: Business Design in and Age of Uncertainty� in Blueprint to the Digital Estate: Creating wealth in the era of e-business | http://www.peoplesoft.com/tools_technolog y/innovative_tech/e_business.html | ||
October | �A master in the art of living draws no distinction between her work and her play, her labor and her leisure, her mind and her body, her education and her recreation. She hardly knows which is which. She simply pursues her vision of excellence whatever she is doing, and leaves others to determine whether she is working or playing. To herself, she always seems to be doing both.� �Barry Gibbons | |||
September | �Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in a square hole, the ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them, because they change things. They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, and are the ones who'll do it.� �Apple Computer 1997 | |||
August | �Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not understanding. Understanding is not wisdom.� �Stoll & Schubert | |||
July | �...the problem in 1998 is not getting more information, it�s dodging information and keeping some kind of space in your head.� �John Updike | |||
June | �Of one thing we can be sure. The quality of our life in the future will be determined by the quality of our thinking.� � Edward DeBono | |||
May | �If you have accurate, in-depth, comprehensive market research, you are in the market too late!� �Regis McKenna | |||
April | �You must be the change you wish to see in the world.� �Ghandi | |||
March | �Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of a lifelong attempt to acquire it.� �Albert Einstein | |||
February | Barbara Jordon said, �Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.� | |||
January �98 | Sonny Bono often joked, �Politics and entertainment are similar. Both have lyrics and both have a beat.� | |||
December | Bill Zander said, �Education is opening new categories and the student is different because the world occurs differently.� | |||
November | Alvin Toffler once said, �The illiterate of the year 2000 will not be the individual who cannot read and write, but the one who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.� | |||
October | In Illusions, Richard Bach wrote, �Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you You are all learners, doers, and teachers.� | |||
September | Drew Harris in InfoWorld 7.21.97 said, �Data, data everywhere, but not one drop that helps you think.� | |||
August | Plato said, �You learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a day of conversation� | |||
July | Edith Warton once said, �There are two ways of spreading the light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.� | |||
June | Chris Turner, Xerox Business Solutions (XBS) Learning Person (1997) said, �Learning is like anything else. The more we do it, the better and quicker people get. People make connections very fast. Learning enables the organization to have a fighting chance to keep up with change.� | |||
May | From the World Congress on Thinking (1997) | |||
April �97 | Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) said, �In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.� |
September 2000, Marcia L. Conner, [email protected]