quotes

"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action." Frank Tibolt

"No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see." Taoist proverb

"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather." John Ruskin

"Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose" Tom Krause

"Why plan to fix it later, when you can get it right at the start?" Harley Brown

"Our bodies are molded rivers." Novalis

"In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil. And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we get such superb colour effects as from August to November." Rose G. Kingsley, The Autumn Garden, 1905

"The universe cannot be read until we have learnt the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and the letters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which means it is humanly impossible to comprehend a single word." Galileo Galilei. 1564-1642. Italian astronomer, mathematician, and physicist.

"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it." Theodore Roosevelt

"Art is not what you see, but what others make you see." Edgar Degas

"Every explicit duality is an implicit unity." Alan Watts

"The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression." Eugene Wigner

"We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?" Wendell Berry

“One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.”Baltazar Gracian 1601-1658, Spanish Jesuit philosopher and writer

"The supreme art of the teacher is to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." Albert Einstein

"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority."Ralph W. Sockman

"Imagination encircles the world." Albert Einstein

"If you devote your life to seeking revenge, first dig two graves." Confucius, philosopher and teacher (c. 551-478 BCE)

"The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'" Maria Montessori, educator (1870-1952)

"The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change." Maya Angelou