Motivational Quotes For Everyone, Including Teachers,Students,Employers and Employees Everyone needs some inspiration sometimes! Here are some quotes that you may enjoy, or find useful in your work, play, or everyday life. 1.Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. Wendell Johnson 2.Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.Andre Gide 3.Never, never, never give up. Winston Churchill 4.You miss 100% of the shots you dont take. Wayne Gretzky 5.Even Einstein asked questions. Author unknown 6.Success comes before work only in the dictionary. Vince Lombardi 7.If WE intend to live on this planet, WE TRULY NEED TO know how it works. Thomas McGuire 8.Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas Edison 9.Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is just opinion. Attributed to Democritus 10.Losers quit when theyre tired, winners quit when theve won. Author unknown 11.Try not. Do or do not. There is no try. Attributed to Yoda 12.Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there. Mark Twain 13.Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence Carl Sagan 14.Gaze Upward, Look Inward, Reach Outward, Press Forward. Thomas S Monson 15.Outside of a dog, a book is mans best friend. Inside of a dog, its too dark to read. Groucho Marx 16.A calm sea does not make a skilled sailor. Author unknown 17.When the time to perform arrives, the time to prepare has passed. Author unknown 18.Chance favors the prepared mind. Pasteur 19.It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask. Voltaire 20.The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Martin Luther King, Jr. 21.You wouldnt send text messages or talk with your friends on facebook during a sports practice.... so why do it during your science practice? (homework!) Author unknown 22.Be in the moment! Focus on what youre doing, when youre doing it! Author unknown 23.I can explain it to you, but I cant understand it for you. Author unknown 24.Only when something becomes a problem for me as one of my goal orientated actions, do I pause in full stride, as it were, in order to learn the competencies that I lack. Klaus Holzkamp 25.If you dont like something, Change it. If you cant change it, Change your attitude. Dont Complain. Maya Angelou 26.Truth against the world - and right, harms no man Author unknown 27.For when I find truth, I become a better me... Author unknown 28.The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged in the way its animals are treated. Ghandi 29.Those who can, teach. Those who cannot, pass laws about teaching. Author unknown 30.If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to a single sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone. John McPhee 31.You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. Woodrow Wilson 32.The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. William Bragg 33.I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. Nikola Tesla 34.The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but Thats funny.... Isaac Asimov 35.I love fools experiments - I am always making them.Charles Darwin 36.Things should be made as simple as possible -- but no simpler. Albert Einstein 37.Education is the ability to perceive the hidden connections between phenomena. Václav Havel 38.You cant fix by analysis what you bungled by design. Light RJ, Singer JD, Willett JB 39.When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. John Muir 40.The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness. Robert Ornstein 41.I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated. Poul Anderson 42.Nearly all of our disasters come from a few fools having the courage of their convictions. Coventry Patmore 43.The conservationist¹s most important task, if we are to save the Earth, is to educate. Sir Peter Scott 44.It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, Go away, Im looking for the truth, and so it goes away. Puzzling. Robert Pirsig 45.Science is made up of facts like a house is made of bricks, but a pile of facts does not make science nor a pile of bricks a house. Henri Poincare 46.If you cannot solve the proposed problem try to solve first some related problem. George Polya 47.Only ignorance! Only ignorance! How can you talk about only ignorance? Dont you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness? And which does the most mischief heaven only knows. If people can say, `Oh! I did not know, I did not mean any harm, they think it is all right... Anna Sewell 48.It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. Upton Sinclair 49.The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. Alvin Toffler 50.Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. Mark Twain 51....human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe H.G. Wells 52.It is in the unquestioned acceptance of things as they are now that keeps people from being creative; it is an attitude of mind rather than a lack of ability to create. Author unknown 53.Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. R. Buckminster Fuller 54.The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. Henry Miller 55.It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Charles Darwin 56.Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept anothers dogmatism. Ralph Waldo Emerson 57.All of us could take a lesson from the weather; it pays no attention to criticism. Author unknown 58.There are no passengers on spaceship Earth. We are all crew. Marshall McLuhan 59.A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure. Author unknown 60.In the end, We will conserve only what we love, We will love only what we understand, We will understand only what we are taught. Baba Dioum 61.Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science. Albert Einstein 62.Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored. Aldous Huxley 63.Science is basically a matter of coming to grips with the real world. In accomplishing this, its only rival has been evolution. Author unknown 64.Give me a lever long enough, and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. Archimedes 65.A good scientist (or student) knows the right answers. A great scientist (or student) knows the right questions. Author unknown 66.The answer is never the answer. Whats really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, youll always be seeking. Ive never seen anybody really find the answer -- they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer. Ken Kesey 67.Id rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph. Ken Kesey 68.Humans live on earth, subject to natures consent, revocable at anytime, without notice.Author unknown 69.In the confrontation between the river and the rock, the river always wins...not by strength, but by perseverance. Louis Agassiz 70.Good science is done by being curious in general, by asking questions all around, by acknowledging the likelihood of being wrong and taking this in good humor for granted, by having a deep fondness for nature, and by being made jumpy and nervous by ignorance. Lewis Thomas 71.The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. Author unknown 72.If you think you are indispensable, put your finger in a bowl of water and watch the hole that remains when you remove it. Author unknown 73.Losers quit when theyre tired. Winners quit when theyve won. Author unknown 74.The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Martin Luther King, Jr. 75.Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. Edwin Powell Hubble 76.Research is what Im doing when I dont know what Im doing. Wernher Von Braun 77.The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. William Lawrence Bragg 78.Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them. Abraham Flexner 79.Science is simply common sense at its best. Thomas Huxley 80.We shall never cease from exploring, and when we return to the place from which we started, we shall know it for the first time. T.S. Eliot 81.Science is a simple as finding patterns in the world around you, nothing more nothing less. Author unknown 82.There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. John F. Kennedy 83.To see the Earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in the eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the Earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers. Archibald MacLeish 84.Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. Francis Bacon 85.We stand on the wrong side of the tapestry - a confusion of colors, knots, and loose ends. But, be assured, on the other side there is a pattern. Author unknown 86.We dont inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. David Brower 87.Earth does not belong to man - man belongs to the Earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it; whatever he does to the web he does to himself. Chief Seattle 88.Be very, very careful what you put into that head of yours, because you will never, ever get it out. Thomas Cardinal Wolsey 89.Success comes before work only in the dictionary. Author unknown 90.We travel together, passengers on a little space ship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, committed for our safety to its security and peace, preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and I will say, the love we give our fragile craft. We cannot maintain it half fortunate, half miserable; half confident, half despairing, half slave to the ancient enemies of mankind, half free in a liberation of resources undreamed of until this day. No craft, no crew, can travel safely with such vast contradictions. On their resolution depends the survival of us all. Adlai Stevenson 91.The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. Chinese proverb 92.The impossible missions are the only ones to succeed. Jacques Cousteau 93.We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. This is a clear prescription for disaster. Carl Sagan 94.Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle. Author unknown 95.You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give. E.O. Wilson 96.It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle 97.We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. E O Wilson 98.It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.Charles Darwin 99.Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King, Jr. 100.The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. Franklin Delanore Roosevelt 101.We still talk in terms of conquest. We still havent become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe. Rachel Carson 102.We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere. Bill Nye
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