If I’d had known I was gonna live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.
Eubie Blake
People forget how fast you did a job—but they remember how well you did it.
Howard W. Newton
Whereas exercise was once an inevitable part of living, today we must consciously plan to get the exercise needed to maintain good health.
John Farquhar, 1987
There are really two kinds of cultural diversity: diversity across distance (anthropology) and diversity across time (history).
Mary Pipher
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, You aren’t.
Margaret Thatcher
Watch out when you stretch the truth; it could snap back at you.
A frog who is dropped in a beaker of water will jump out and save himself. But if he is in a beaker of water that is slowly heated, he will stay in and cook to death.
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Isn’t making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?
Men, I want you to fight vigorously and then run. And as I a little bit lame, I am going to start running now.
General George Stedman,
US Army, Civil War
When asked about the recent fire in his school a first grader replied, "I knew it was going to happen because we have been practicing for it all year."
FSU, graduate student came to me for help on her dissertation. She said her professor wanted her to run a "cornback’s alpha" on her measure.
NSU, a graduate student handed in a critique of an intelligence measure. She noted that in developing the measure the authors had surveyed six hundred examinees from several "geological" regions.
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Anyone can become angry—that is easy.
But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not easy.
Aristotle
More often than not, a happy person is not a person with a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
“Well said pooh,” what I like best –“ and then he had to stop and think. Because although eating honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what it was called.
A.A. Milne, from
The House at Pooh Corner
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A teacher affects eternity no one can tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity
Good lectures are simple. It is amazing how little conceptual ground can be covered in one hour. Only three or four central points can be covered thoroughly, in part because most points should be illustrated with a vivid example. Although examples are time-consuming and may seem conceptually redundant, they are essential. Good examples captivate students imaginations, activate their memories, and help them make the transition from abstraction to what they already know. More important, examples give students time to process and integrate what has been said. In lectures, as in readings, it is better to set a realistic limit on what you want to get across and then teach those points thoroughly
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