I am a valuable worthwhile human being.

If you suddenly discovered you only had s ix months to live, what would you do? -Wayne Dyer It ain't who you are, it's what you are. -Earl Blanchard The economic fundamental is labor. Labor is the human element which makes the fr uitful seasons of the earth useful to men. It is men's labor that makes the harv est what it is. That is the economic fundamental; every one of us is working wit h material which we did not and could not create, but which was presented to us by Nature. -Henry Ford The primary functions are agriculture, manufacture, and transportation. Communit y life is impossible without them. They hold the world together. Raising things, making things, and earning things are as primitive as human need and yet as mod ern as anything can be. -Henry Ford That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. -Abraham Lincoln Precocious powers of observation and retention. -Niel Baldwin, Edison Biographe r A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. -George Santayana The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercis e of his mind. -Jacques Barzun The essence of a higher education is the search for ideas. -Plato Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire. -William Butler Yea ts The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of go vernment in the next. -Abraham Lincoln Our students are lugging home heavy texts full of disconnected facts that neithe r educate nor motivate them. -George Nelson In the teaching of history, we find a certain apathy as history has been replace d by courses in social studies and these diminish the role of historic figures s uch as George Washington. Courses concentrate on great movements and social forc es, not the role individuals play in making history or causing certain events. . . Personalities and heroic actions no longer are taught as part of history. -D onald J. Senese What is necessary is an understanding of how this child feels and thinks, how he interprets his situation, and not what his parents think. -Alfred Adler My most important job is to raise saints, not scholars. I feel that the scholarl y thing happens along the way. -Pattie Kelley-Huff I most sincerely wish that some more liberal plan might be laid and executed for the benefit of the rising generation, and that our new Constitution may be dist inguished for encouraging learning and virtue. -Abigail Adams The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. -A ristotle Education is the best provision for the journey to old age. -Aristotle The ideal school situation is one in which the spirit of inquiry and investigati on is constantly encouraged and in which children are developing ideals of servi ce by virtue of their activity. -George Drayton Strayer and Naomi Norsworthy In this state, there is nothing more important than providing our children with a strong and sure educational foundation. Education is poverty's mortal enemy. I t is the number one ticket out of poverty. Education opens the door to better jo bs and is the foundation for successful economic development. -Kathleen Blanco It would be nice to win the national championship every year. But what really ma tters is that the kids compete hard and succeed off the field as well. -Skip Be rtman An emotion can neither be hindered or removed except by a contrary and stronger emotion. -Spinoza Who, offered magic insists on logic? -Richard Norton Smith Make no mistake about it. Emotion runs the show in sport. Some emotions are empo wering and free your talent and skill; other emotions are disempowering and effe ctively lock your potential out. Empowering emotions are those associated with c hallenge, drive, confidence, determination, positive fight, energy, spirit, pers istence and fun. Disempowering emotions are those associated with feelings of fa

tigue, helplessness, insecurity, low energy, weakness, fear and confusion. -Jam es E. Loehr When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of l ogic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudi ces and motivated by pride and vanity. -Dale Carnegie The emotions, as a rule, are in excess and detain the mind in the contemplation of one object so that it cannot think of others. -Spinoza You have to take emotions out of the equation. Know what your downside is. When you've reached it, get out of the house, work out, exercise your mind and muscle s. -Greg Wascher The connection between thoughts and emotions is very real. -James E. Loehr, Ed. D. Is it possible to create your own emotions? How? Does auto-suggestion accomplish this? Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal t hat is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been. -William Hazlitt I believe the theme of 'Of Human Bondage' is that emotions rule the intellect an d that all of us are victums of our heart. -Judy Delton The itellect is always fooled by the heart. -La Rochefoucauld Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he fe els, what he tells himself about what he has seen. -Pablo Picasso If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. -Edward Hopper An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be. -Albert Camus Seeling's believing, but feeling's the truth. -Thomas Fuller At the deepest level all decisions are emotional. -Guerilla Selling Attitudes are more important than facts. -Dr. Karl Menninger Empathy is "crawling into the hide of the other." -Gerry Spence You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. -Harper Lee Every day I tried to get into the skin of every person in the place. -Jack Welc h Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom under encouragement. -Donald A. La ird