"Loyalty affects you on a daily basis- with family, with friends, & in your profession. It's a matter of trust & respect. Loyalty is a selfless proposition. If people trust you, you're loyal, you can accomplish anything. " Yogi Berra (37)
"Loyalty affects you on a daily basis- with family, with friends, & in your profession. It's a matter of trust & respect. Loyalty is a selfless proposition. If people trust you, you're loyal, you can accomplish anything. " Yogi Berra (37)
"Great endeavors are usually fueled, at least in part, by an irrational passion. Let's not glorify irrationality, but let's recognize that if you look rationally at the odds of succeeding at anything worthwhile, you'll often end up with a rational decision to surrender. To go on anyway, you have to be a little crazy."
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. (24) ~Abraham Lincoln
Yesterday I wrote about the fact that we are telling a story with our life. We are producing a movie in real time. Sometimes that story is not so good. Sometimes we tell a bad story. We get caught in things that do not matter or plot lines that are toxic, corrosive and destructive. In…
Steve Jobs gave this quote in his address to graduating students at Stanford in 2005. I believe the implications of his words are profound and stand on their own. "When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most…
“If you’re not prepared to make a mistake, you will never come up with anything original.” (16) ~Sir Ken Robinson
If you follow me on twitter, you'll know that I sent out a tweet of Elizabeth King's article about teachers, accountability and outcomes. Her blog is provocatively named "Stay out of School" and then you are told that the blog isn't about "Schools." Seriously, thought it was a good enough read that I thought…