Past Deep Thoughts
"If you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original."
-Sir Ken Robinson
Do Schools Kill Creativity
"Excellence is what silences the critics."
- A member of the North Penn Community
"Minimalism is the enemy of excellence and the father of mediocrity."
- Matthew Kelly
"We're the team to beat."
-Jimmy Rollins
”Keep your head down and don't try to kill it."
- My Dad's advice to me for my first golf lesson
”It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts…it is to teach them to think.”
-Robert M. Hutchins
"The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth."
- Erasmus
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."
-Submitted by Stephen Patota
"Today is the first day of the rest of your life."
- Mr. Brady (My 6th grade teacher)
What is a mathematician's favorite dessert?
-Submitted by Meg Lewinski
"Normal people do something until they get it right, but professionals do it until they can't get it wrong."
- Submitted by Ray Galgon
A Lifetime in 27 Minutes.
Sarah Lynn Emerson
"Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated."
- Coretta Scott King
RIP January 31, 2006
"Why is it we have the time to do a job over but not correctly the first time?"
-Bumper Sticker
The Smile of Bubbakhar
"Life's a garden. Dig it!!"
-Contributed by Ryan Aubertin
"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing."
-Edmund Burke
-contributed by Dan Leonard
"It's true hard work never killed
anybody, but I figure, why take the chance."
-Ronald Reagan
- contributed by Christopher Rice
"You can learn a lot from a kid's face. Especially from the mouth area!"
-Jack Handey
-contributed by Pat Bonner
"It's the hard that makes it great. If it were easy, everybody would do it."
- Tom Hanks in "A League of Their Own"
"If you plan to do what you have always done, plan to get what you have always gotten."
-Anonymous
"There are three elements to a good life:
Learning, Earning, and Yearning"
- Eric Sheppard
"We must learn the thing we cannot do by doing it."
-Aristotle
"If you think you can or can't, you're right"
-Henry Ford
"The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth."
- Erasmus
"I can't means I won't."
- Mrs. Ball
"The nature of mind is like water. When left undisturbed it becomes clear."
Sherpa Proverb
"The challanges you face are not as important as the challenges you face up to."
- Ziggy by way of Stephen Alonso
"Aspire to inspire before you expire."
-George McCauley
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
-Mahatma Gandhi
"Your learning is your responsibility."
- Anonymous
“The problem with most incentive structures is not getting people to do the right thing. It’s getting people to know the right thing to do.”
-Thomas Schelling, economic theorist
"Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination."
- Albert Einstein
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
- Albert Einstein
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
- Albert Einstein
"Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you wanted....If you don’t achieve your dreams you can still get a lot by trying for it.
- Dr. Randy Pausch, Professor from Carnegie Mellon
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