“If you’re not prepared to make a mistake, you will never come up with anything original.” (16)
~Sir Ken Robinson
“If you’re not prepared to make a mistake, you will never come up with anything original.” (16)
~Sir Ken Robinson
Eventually everyone has to move beyond the wounds and the hurts they experienced as children and learn to parent their own children in a new and better way. The excuse that I didn't have good parents simply won't fly in the end.We need to stop the cycle. Beyond that we need to move to the…
“Times covetousness is forever. Time devours and devours—and gives back nothing. How terrible to face death without ever having claimed freedom, even in all its danger!” ~Frederick Nietzsche, in Irvin Yalom’s When Nietzsche Wept as quoted by Dan Allender in To Be Told Workbook.
Two golden rules of teaching:"If you have not read a book, always make it clear to the students you have not done so; and (tangentially related) if you do not know the answer to a question, admit you do not know the answer. The desire of the teacher to appear omniscient must be resisted at…
A great tragedy of our day is that we have no framework with which to process bad things. We do not process difficult things. We ignore and soothe them. Because we can’t process it, we become cynical and jaded. No longer is life a series of seasons where some are good and some are bad,…
"Do not waste time bothering whether you 'love' your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him." (46) ~C.S. Lewis I think this is true of every relationship…
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second. (17) – William James