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Summer 2001

It’s learning that keeps us alive, curiosity that keeps us learning.

—Central Virginia Public Television

I wonder what my intuition will toss up to me like gifts from the sea.

—Dr. Jonas Salk

 

Clear Your Clutter With Feng Shui. Karen Kingston.

A Conspiracy of Paper. David Liss.

Turn in Off! How to unplug from the anytime, anywhere office without disconnecting your career. Gil Gordon.

Intuitive Healer. Marcia Emery.

Mistaken Identity. Lisa Scottoline.

www.turnitoff.com

 

Spring 2001

Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.

— Michael J. Gelb

Ayurvedic Secrets to Longevity and Total Health. Peter Enselmo

Full Circles, Overlapping Lives: Culture and Generation in Transition. Mary Catherine Bateson.

Virtual Teams. Jessica Lipnack. Visit the Virtual Teams website.

 Pastwatch: The Redeption of Christopher Columbus. Orson Scott Card.

 

www.elearningforum.org

Nov/Dec 2000

Education, whether for success or failure, is never finished. Building and sustaining the settings in which individuals can grow and unfold, not "kept in their place," but empowered to become all they can be, is not the only task of parents and teachers, but the basis of management and political leadership and simple friendship.

— Mary Catherine Bateson, Composing a Life, 1990

Read “Learning’s Reward” (Marcia’s interview with Mary Catherine Bateson in the Spring 2001 issue of LiNE Zine)

Peripheral Visions: Learning along the way. Mary Catherine Bateson.

Bird by Bird: Some instructions on writing and life Anne Lamott

Community Building on the Web
by Amy Jo Kim

Treasure Box
Orson Scott Card

Saving Faith. David Baldassi

www.elderhostel.org

Sept/Oct2 000

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.

— Carl Schurz 1829-1906

 

How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel Alain De Botten

Darkness at Noon by Albert Keistler

The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America by David Whyte

Adios Strunk and White by Gary & Clynis Hoffman

www.linezine.com

   Nov/Dec 1999

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. 

— Mahatma Gandhi

Spiritual Serendipity
by Richard Eyre  [re-read

Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson

Lifebalance by Richard Eyre

mylearningplace.com

Sept/Oct 1999

It is no failure to fall short of realizing all that we might dream. The failure is to fall short of dreaming all that we might realize.

— Dee Hock

Birth of Chaortic OrganizationBirth of the Chaordic Age by Dee Hock

Crossing the Chasm (updated)
Crossing the Chasm (updated)by Geoffrey Moore

www.chaordic.org

August 1999

The only successful way to predict the future is to invent it.

— Alan Kay

The Man Who Mistood HIs Wife for a Hat The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

 Inside the Tornado by Geoffrey Moore

The Circle of Innovation Circle of Innovation by Tom Peters

Summer SistersSummer Sisters by Judy Bloom

www.knav.com

July

we are each at the center of the universe. so is everyone else.

— e.e. cummings

Organizing Genius Organzing Genius
by Warren Bennis

Wizard of OzWonderful Wizard of Oz
by L Frank Baum

Smilla's Sense of SnowSmilla's Sense of Snow
by Peter Hoeg

www.erpsupersite.com

June

We think it’s about technology tools, but teachers are not sure what exactly to do with these tools. The tendency is to apply new tools to old tasks.

— Andy Moore, Knowledge Asset Media

 Son of the Circus
by John Irving

  Information Architectur for the World Wide Web by Louis Rosenfeld & Peter Morville

BorderlinersBorderliners by Peter Hoeg

 

www.disruptive.com

May

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

— Charles Dudley Warner

Cold MountainCold Mountain by Charles Frazier

The WinnerThe Winner
by David Baldacci

will-harris.com/yoga/

April

In the 21st century, the education and skills of the work force will be the dominant competitive weapon. — Lester Thurow

Magic Circle Magic Circle by Katherine Neville

DisruptionDisruption
by Jean-Maria Dru

www.contentious.com

March

In any community in transition, it is more important whom you know than what you know. That's the right definition of networking.

— Peter F. Drucker in Wired Magazine

Little Alters Everywhere
Little Alters Everywhere
by Rebecca Wells

Shall We Tell the President
Shall We Tell the President
by Jefferey Archer

Blueprint for a Digital Economy
Blueprint for a Digital Economy, edited by Don Tapscott and the ALliance for Computer Technology

womenCONNECT.com

February

There are three rules of work:

1. Out of clutter, find simplicity.

2. From discord, find harmony.

3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.                                     

— Albert Einstein

High Hearts
High Hearts
by
Rita Mae Brown


Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self
by Sarah Ban Breathnach

Airframe
Airframe
by Michael Crichton

www.workindex.com

January

The problem is not how to get new thoughts into your mind, but how to get the old ones out.

— Nancy Austin, co-author of A Passion for Excellence: The Leadership Difference

Dancing We Li Masters
The Dancing Wu Li Masters
by Gary Zukov


Dolley: A novel of Dolley Madison in Love & War by Rita Mae Brown

Knowledge Evolution
Knowledge Evolution
by Verna Allee

www.bootstap.org

 

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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

http://www.addapt.org

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_techno logy/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

http://www.thinksmart.com

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

http://www.healthyideas.com

August

“Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not understanding. Understanding is not wisdom.” —Stoll & Schubert

http://www.wired.com/wired/6.05/hillis.ht ml

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

http://www.randomhouse.com/seussville /

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

http://www.learnativity.com

May

“If you have accurate, in-depth, comprehensive market research, you are in the market too late!” —Regis McKenna

http://www.fastcompany.com/online/14/ humane.html

April

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” —Ghandi

http://www.cedma.org

March

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of a lifelong attempt to acquire it.” —Albert Einstein

http://x3.ieee.org/lc/

February

Barbara Jordon said, “Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.”

http://theminingcompany.com

January 1998

Sonny Bono often joked, “Politics and entertainment are similar. Both have lyrics and both have a beat.”

http://www.reuters.com

December

Bill Zander said, “Education is opening new categories and the student is different because the world occurs differently.”

http://learnet.gc.ca/eng/index.htm

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.”

http://www.fwl.org/edtech/blooms.html

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.” 

http://www.hardatwork.com

September

Drew Harris in InfoWorld 7.21.97 said, “Data, data everywhere, but not one drop that helps you think.”

http://www.sciam.com/0797issue/0797tr ends.html

August

Plato said, “You learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a day of conversation”

http://www.learn2.com

July

Edith Warton once said, “There are two ways of spreading the light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/

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.”

http://www.braintainment.com

May

From the World Congress on Thinking (1997)
“A person’s greatest privilege is to fulfill individual potential. A nation’s greatest resource is its collective intelligence. Global society’s greatest right is the opportunity to learn, change, and improve.”

http://www.ittrain.com

April 1997

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.”

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