“If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress. ” ~~ Barack Obama
Filed Under: Achievement, Barack Obama, Determination, Goals, Success
“I’m going to insist that we’ve got decent funding, enough teachers, and computers in the classroom, but unless you turn off the television set and get over a certain anti-intellectualism that I think pervades some low-income communities, our children are not going to achieve.” ~~ Barack Obama
“Chance favors the prepared mind” ~~ Louis Pasteur
“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.” ~~ Louis Pasteur
“The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty — it is the effectiveness of the teacher.” ~~ Harry K. Wong
“We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.” ~~ Rudyard Kipling
“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s a day you’ve had everything to do and you’ve done it.” ~~ Margaret Thatcher
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people.” ~~ Steve Jobs
