“Cuando se cierra una puerta, se abre otra.”<\/span><\/em> “There is a better way for everything. Find it.” “I praise loudly, I blame softly.” “If people speak ill of you, live so that no one will believe them.” “Thank not those faithful who praise all your words and actions, but those who kindly reprove your faults.” “Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.” “Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.” \u201cLa excelencia es un arte que se adquiere con entrenamiento y habituaci\u00f3n. No actuamos correctamente porque tengamos virtud o excelencia, sino que tenemos esas cualidades porque hemos actuado correctamente. Somos lo que hacemos repetidamente. La excelencia, entonces, no es un acto, sino un h\u00e1bito.\u201d<\/span><\/em> \u201cThere\u2019s no disloyalty in honesty.\u201d “May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.” \u201cThose who would bring great things to pass must rise early. Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty.\u201d Albert Einstein’s view on atheism: “Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.” “Better to be despised for anxious apprehensions, than to be ruined by too confident a security.” “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.” “Debt is the worst poverty.” “The only people who never fail are those who never try.” “Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.” “Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.” “If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.” “He that is taught by himself has a fool for a master.” “If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.” “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” \u201cAl final, no recordaremos las palabras de nuestros enemigos, sino el silencio de nuestros amigos.\u201d<\/span><\/em> “The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” “We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.” “We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.” “To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.” “For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g. men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.” “Anhelo realizar una tarea grande y noble; pero mi principal deber es cumplir las peque\u00f1as tareas como si fueran grandes y nobles.”<\/span><\/em> “The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.” “Perish discretion when it interferes with duty.” “The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.” “There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.” “Poverty is hard, but debt is horrible.” “It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.” \u201cWe never know the worth of water till the well is dry.\u201d “The first and best victory is to conquer self; to be conquered by self is of all things most shameful and vile.” “He who finds pleasure in vice and pain in virtue, is still novice in both.” “I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.” “It’s no good saying one thing and thinking another.” “It is wrong to sorrow without ceasing.” “There is not any advantage to be won from grim lamentation.” “No one chases evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.” “The greatest remedy for anger is delay.” “Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and, most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” “Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.” “Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” \u201cForgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude.\u201d \u201cCe n\u2019est pas assez d\u2019avoir l\u2019esprit bon, mais le principal est de l\u2019appliquer bien.\u201d<\/em><\/span> “It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.” “The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.” “Too many cooks may spoil the broth, but it only takes one to burn it.” “We can have more or less success in our lives, but in the end, it all comes down to who we are as people. I don\u2019t like false pretenses. I choose to be open and treat everyone equally. It takes so little to be kind.” “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” \u201cI\u2019ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.\u201d “Las personas inteligentes son capaces de simplificar lo complejo; los tontos, en cambio, suelen complicar lo sencillo.”<\/span><\/em> “Taming the Bureaucrat” \u201cNothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.\u201d “We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.” \u201cLying lips are abomination to the Lord: but they that deal truly are his delight\u201d (Proverbs 12:22).<\/p>\n \u201dThough no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.\u201d \u201cSuccess is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.\u201d \u201cAll things are difficult before they are easy.\u201d “In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.” \u201cThe first test of a truly great man is his humility. I do not mean, by humility, doubt of his own power\u2026.[But really] great men have a curious feeling that greatness is not in them, but through them\u2026And they see something Divine in every other man\u2026, and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful.\u201d “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.” “In a global economy, knowledge may be a company’s greatest competitive advantage.” “It doesn\u2019t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.” “El fascismo se cura leyendo y el racismo se cura viajando.”<\/em><\/span> \u201cThe noblest revenge is to forgive.\u201d “Developing accountability and practice of reporting will advance ownership more than almost anything.\u201d “By failing to prepare, you prepare to fail.” “To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.” “The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” “We must be careful not to believe things simply because we want them to be true. No one can fool you as easily as you can fool yourself.” \u201cPeople are generally self-limiting. You just gotta believe in yourself, and try. You gotta try. People can do way more than they think.\u201d \u201cEverybody can be great, because anybody can serve. You do not have to have a college degree to serve.\u00a0You do not have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.\u201d \u201cLeadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do.\u201d \u201cIf you don\u2019t like something, change it. If you can\u2019t change it, change your attitude.\u201d \u201cDarkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.\u201d \u201cIf we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.\u201d \u201cA fool’s paradise is a wise man’s hell.\u201d “There are a few things that money and fame cannot buy, and education is one of them<\/span>\u201c<\/p>\n “Parents rejoice when children thrive.\u201d \u201cEl que en casarse acierta en nada yerra.\u201d “Libre, y para m\u00ed sagrado, es el derecho de pensar. La educaci\u00f3n es fundamental para la felicidad social; es el principio en el que descansan la libertad y el engrandecimiento de los pueblos.\u201d<\/em><\/span> \u201cA life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” \u00a0\u201cEducation\u00a0is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.\u201d \u201cSome have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.\u201d \u201cEntre los individuos, como entre las Naciones, el respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz.”<\/span><\/em> \u201cSuccess is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.\u201d \u201cVanity is the greatest seducer of reason: when you are most convinced your work is important, that is when you are most under its spell.” \u201cMaster the topic, the message, and the delivery.\u201d \u201cAn investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.\u201d \u201cThe main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.\u201d \u201cTravel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.\u201d \u201cOur lives begin to end when we become silent about things that matter.\u201d \u201cA stumble may prevent a fall.\u201d \u201cWe cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community…\u00a0<\/span>Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.” \u201cIndividuals who celebrate others’ victories are winners themselves.<\/span>\u201d “If you quit once, it becomes a habit. Never quit!” “It’s hard to beat someone who never quits.” \u201cYou can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.\u201d “Once fanaticism has infected the brain, the malady is all but incurable.” “Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.” \u201dA true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.\u201c \u201cIgnorance leads to fear, fear leads to hatred, and hatred leads to violence. This is the equation.\u201d<\/span> \u201cI fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.\u201d<\/span> \u201cThe best boss I worked for didn’t work the longest or the hardest. He didn’t know all the answers. But he cared the most. He wanted us to always keep learning and growing. He removed obstacles blocking our paths and made sure we always felt supported.\u201d<\/span> \u201cWhat is my country? Is it the soil, the ethnic ancestry, or the money? No. It’s our people. You and I are America. And so are the people who don’t agree with me, look like me, think like me, or vote like me. To love our country means we must be good to one another, even when we disagree. No, especially when we disagree. Anything less is un-American.<\/span>\u201d<\/span> Presentations, Interviews, Panels, etc.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ever since I was a young boy, I have enjoyed reading. 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“Where one door shuts, another opens.”
<\/span>\u2014Alexander Graham Bell, a Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor, scientist, and engineer. He’s best known for inventing the telephone in 1876, which revolutionized communication and laid the groundwork for modern telecommunications<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n
\u2014Thomas Edison<\/p>\n
\u2014Catherine II (the Great) of Russia<\/p>\n
\u2014Plato, a philosopher and mathematician in Classical Greece, and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world<\/p>\n
\u2014Plato<\/p>\n
\u2014Lucius Annaeus Seneca, a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work, humorist of the Silver Age of Latin literature<\/p>\n
\u2014John Herschel, an English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor, and experimental photographer, who also did valuable botanical work<\/p>\n
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.\u201d
\u2014Aristotle, a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy within the Lyceum and the wider Aristotelian tradition. Note:<\/strong> Scholars point out that this quote is actually a modern paraphrase<\/em> of ideas from his Nicomachean Ethics<\/em><\/p>\n
\u2014Mike Murphy, a Republican political consultant, entertainment industry writer, and producer<\/p>\n
\u2014Dwight D. Eisenhower, an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961<\/p>\n
\u2014Matthew Henry, a Welsh-born or British Non-Conformist minister and author<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not an atheist and I don\u2019t think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangements of the books, but doesn\u2019t know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus<\/p>\n
\u2014Edmund Burke, Irish orator, philosopher, & politician<\/p>\n
\u2014Sir Winston Churchill, during his first speech as prime minister to the House of Commons<\/p>\n
\u2014Thomas Fuller, an English churchman and historian<\/p>\n
\u2014Ilka Chase, an American actress, radio host, and novelist<\/p>\n
\u2014Dalai Lama, a title given by the Tibetan people to the foremost spiritual leader of the Gelug or “Yellow Hat” school of Tibetan Buddhism. The current and 14th Dalai Lama is Tenzin Gyatso<\/p>\n
\u2014Jonathan Kozol, a Rhodes Scholar, former fourth-grade teacher, and a passionate advocate for child-centered learning. He remains one of the most widely read and highly honored education writers in the nation<\/p>\n
\u2014Oriental Proverb<\/p>\n
\u2014Ben Jonson, an English playwright and poet. Jonson’s artistry exerted a lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy<\/p>\n
\u2014Henry Ford<\/p>\n
\u2014Andr\u00e9 Paul Guillaume Gide, a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947<\/p>\n
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.\u201d
\u2014Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., an American Baptist minister and activist, was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. This particular quotation is drawn from the \u201cSteeler Lecture,\u201d one of five lectures that Dr. King delivered in November 1967 at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama<\/p>\n
\u2014Hubert H. Humphrey Jr., an American pharmacist and politician who served as the 38th vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969<\/p>\n
\u2014Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, an American poet and educator<\/p>\n
\u2014Helen Keller, an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer<\/p>\n
\u2014Plutarch, a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi<\/p>\n
\u2014Aristotle, a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy within the Lyceum and the wider Aristotelian tradition<\/p>\n
“I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.”
\u2014Helen Keller<\/p>\n
\u2014American Proverb<\/p>\n
\u2014Hannah More, an English religious writer, philanthropist, poet, and playwright<\/p>\n
\u2014Henry Becque, a French dramatist<\/p>\n
\u2014Thomas Henry Huxley, an English biologist and anthropologist specializing in comparative anatomy<\/p>\n
\u2014Charles H. Spurgeon, a world-renowned preacher coming from a Reformed Baptist tradition. He was called the “Prince of Preachers”<\/p>\n
\u2014Benjamin Franklin<\/p>\n
\u2014Thomas Fuller, an English churchman and historian<\/p>\n
\u2014Plato, a Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He founded the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning on the European continent<\/p>\n
\u2014Chinese Proverb<\/p>\n
\u2014Sir Winston Churchill<\/p>\n
\u2014Dame Catherine Ann Cookson, a British writer who is in the top 20 of the most widely read British novelists, while retaining a relatively low profile in the world of celebrity writers<\/p>\n
\u2014Homer, a Greek poet who was the legendary author to whom the authorship of the Iliad and the Odyssey is attributed. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time<\/p>\n
\u2014Homer<\/p>\n
\u2014Mary Wollstonecraft, a British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women’s rights<\/p>\n
\u2014Lucius Anneaus Seneca<\/p>\n
\u2014Fran\u00e7ois Auguste Ren\u00e9 Rodin, a French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture<\/p>\n
\u2014Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known as Pel\u00e9, was Regarded as one of the greatest players of all time and labeled “the greatest” by FIFA<\/p>\n
\u2014Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban PC, an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. He was also known as Lord Verulam<\/p>\n
\u2014Kahlil Gibran<\/p>\n
\u2014Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.<\/p>\n
“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”
\u2014Ren\u00e9 Descartes<\/p>\n
\u2014John Maynard Keynes<\/p>\n
\u2014James Russell Lowell<\/p>\n
\u2014Julia Child<\/p>\n
\u2014Novak Djokovic, one of the best tennis players in history<\/p>\n
\u2014Winston Churchill<\/p>\n
\u2014Maya Angelou<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.\u201d
\u2014Gerald W. Grumet<\/p>\n
Gerald W. Grumet, M.D. is a psychiatrist in Rochester, NY who found himself increasingly ensnarled in paperwork as the era of Managed Care began to take hold in the 1980’s. Minor bookkeeping chores which had previously taken minutes began to consume hours. While most physicians use professional billing clerks to interact with health insurers, Grumet put himself on the front lines, doing his own clerical chores in search for answers. His research led him to conclude that the central problem of bureaucracy is the rigid or obsessional personalities that form the functional core of advanced societies.<\/p>\n
\u2014Calvin Coolidge<\/p>\n
\u2014Edward R. Murrow<\/p>\n
\u2014Carl Bard<\/p>\n
\u2014Winston Churchill<\/p>\n
\u2014Thomas Fuller<\/p>\n
\u2014Desiderius Erasmus<\/p>\n
\u2014John Ruskin, English Author<\/p>\n
\u2014Marcus Tullius Cicero<\/p>\n
\u2014Larry Prusak and Thomas Davenport, “Working Knowledge”<\/p>\n
\u2014Steve Jobs<\/p>\n
“Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling.”
\u2014Miguel de Unamuno<\/p>\n
\u2014Thomas Fuller<\/p>\n
\u2014Scott Pulsipher, President of Western Governors University, the preeminent Competency-Based Education institution<\/p>\n
\u2014Benjamin Franklin, an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary<\/p>\n
\u2014Thomas Paine, an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary<\/p>\n
\u2014Albert Einstein<\/p>\n
\u2014Richard Feynman, an American theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 jointly with Julian Schwinger and Shin’ichir\u014d Tomonaga<\/p>\n
\u2014Elon Musk<\/p>\n
\u2014Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.<\/p>\n
\u2014Frances Hesselbein<\/p>\n
\u2014Maya Angelou<\/p>\n
\u2014Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.<\/p>\n
\u2014Winston Churchill<\/p>\n
\u2014Thomas Fuller<\/p>\n
\u2014Gene Hayes<\/p>\n
\u2014Refr\u00e1n espa\u00f1ol<\/p>\n
“Free, and sacred to me, is the right to think. Education is essential for social happiness; It is the principle on which freedom and the aggrandizement of peoples rest.\u201d
\u2014Benito Ju\u00e1rez<\/p>\n
\u2014Jackie Robinson<\/p>\n
\u2014Nelson Mandela<\/p>\n
\u2014Thomas Fuller<\/p>\n
\u201cAmong individuals, as among nations, respect for the rights of others is peace.\u201d
\u2014Benito Ju\u00e1rez<\/p>\n
\u2014Bill Gates<\/p>\n
\u2014Marcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n
\u2014Steve Jobs<\/p>\n
\u2014Benjamin Franklin<\/p>\n
\u2014Stephen R. Covey<\/p>\n
\u2014Mark Twain<\/p>\n
\u2014Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.<\/p>\n
\u2014Thomas Fuller<\/p>\n
<\/span>\u2014C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez<\/span><\/p>\n
\u2014Gene Hayes<\/p>\n
\u2014Michael Jordan<\/p>\n
\u2014Babe Ruth<\/p>\n
\u2014Robert A. Heinlein<\/p>\n
\u2014Voltaire<\/p>\n
\u2014Leo Tolstoy<\/p>\n
\u2014Douglas MacArthur<\/p>\n
\u2014Ibn Rushd (Averro\u00ebs)<\/span><\/p>\n
\u2014Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n
\u2014Annonymous<\/span><\/p>\n
\u2014Arthur C. Brooks<\/span><\/p>\nSelected Media<\/h3>\n
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