03/31/10

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own. -Nikos Kazantzakis

03/30/10

The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. -George Lois

03/29/10

Storying. . . very quickly becomes the means whereby we enter into a shared world, which is continually broadened and enriched by the exchange of stories with others. In this sense, the reality of each one of us inhabits is to a very great extent a distillation of the stories that we have shared. -Gordon Wells

03/26/10

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

03/24/10

Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. -Marcus Aurelius

03/23/10

He who laughs most, learns best. -John Cleese

03/17/10

Pedantry and mastery are opposite attitudes toward rules. To apply a rule to the letter, rigidly, unquestioningly, in cases where it fits and in cases where it does not fit, is pedantry... To apply a rule with natural ease, with judgment, noticing the cases where it fits, and without ever letting the words of the rule obscure the purpose of the action or the opportunities of the situation, is mastery. -George Pólya

03/16/10

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man. -George Bernard Shaw

03/12/10

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy... neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. -John W. Gardner

03/11/10

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols. -Tom Peters

03/09/10

Dreams sometimes come true. But not without something just like work. -Sylvia Ashton-Warner

03/08/10

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. -Franklin D. Roosevelt

03/04/10

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. -Viktor E. Frankl

03/03/10

The story--from Rumplestiltskin to War and Peace--is one of the basic tools invented by the human mind for the purpose of understanding. There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories. -Ursula K. LeGuin

03/02/10

We are our stories. -Daniel H. Pink