Category Archives: Thought For the Day

Thought For the Day: Leave Your Mark and Risk Disturbing the World

“The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived.” – Ann Patchett, writer (b. 2 Dec 1963)       … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: Mistakes Come As Lessons In Trying New Things

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein      

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Thought For the Day: Art Is To Be Loved Not Always Understood

“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.” – Claude Monet, painter (14 Nov 1840-1926)        

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Thought For the Day: Focus On Remedies Not Faults

“Focus on remedies not faults.” – Jack Nicklaus      

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Thought For the Day: The Hardest Thing To Understand About the Universe Is We Might Come To Understand It

“The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.” – Albert Einstein      

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Thought For the Day: Education Is the Passing of A Society’s Soul From Generation To Generation

“What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Whatever the soul is like, it will have to be passed on … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: Faith Is Holding On Tight When the Going Gets Windy

“Faith is holding on tight when the going gets windy.” – Charles Schulz      

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Thought For the Day: Excellence Requires Competition

“Excellence demands competition. Without a race there can be no champion, no records broken, no excellence — in education or in any other walk of life.” – Ronald Reagan    

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Thought For the Day: Worldly Knowledge Is Learned From the World And Not In A Closet

“The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.” – Philip Dormer Stanhope (1694-1773)      

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Thought For the Day: The Deterioration of Any Government Begins With the Decay of Its Founding Principles

“The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.” – Charles de Montesquieu (1689-1755) If you have not yet read Spirit of Laws, I wish to highly recommend it.  An English translation … Continue reading

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