Posts tagged quotes

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Lao Tzu

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No significant learning occurs without a significant relationship.
Dr. James Comer

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A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius

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Know what is enough—abuse nothing. Know when to stop—harm nothing.
Lao Tzu, “Tao Te Ching”

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“Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.”

Robert Collier

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My only weapon is my pen. I’m a songwriter. I’m a poet.
Sly Stone…and I’d have to extend this self-definition to myself as well.

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He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.
Leonardo Da Vinci

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…when literacy is promoted as the solution to all economic, social and educational problems, it is easy to assume that inability to read and write creates those same economic, social, and educational problems…
Frank Smith from “Overselling Literacy (1989)

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Variation is a part of the human experience, and individual behavior is influenced by identities, contexts, and circumstances.
Stephen B. Kucer in “Dimensions of Literacy”

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If one learns from others but does not think, one will be bewildered. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one will be in peril.
Confucius