Quotes I like..

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Permalink Reply by Jason Larison on August 5, 2007 at 11:53pm

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-Aristotle

“If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what then is an empty desk the sign of?”
-Albert Einstein

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Permalink Reply by Ginger Lewman on September 16, 2007 at 12:10am

This is butchered and I'm not sure who said it, but I sure like it:

"If you dislike change, you're going to like irrelvancy even less."

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Permalink Reply by George Somers on September 16, 2007 at 10:10am

Lt. Gen. James Helmly said. “That always sounds good until we have to inactivate units.... Change is unsettling, it’s hard and it’s scary — but if you dislike change, you are going to dislike irrelevance even more.’’
Source: http://www.dix.army.mil/PAO/post03/post051603/HelmlyForecasts.htm

Close, VERY close.

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Permalink Reply by Ginger Lewman on September 16, 2007 at 10:29am

VERY nice! I just am beside myself with how AWESOME this network is. Just post a misquote and in less than 10 hours, someone's clarified AND posted a citing link!
Thanks George!

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Permalink Reply by Simon Brown on September 16, 2007 at 1:18am

I saw a good one on a bloke's Tshirt the other day. I put it on my Skype display next to my name.
"Instant Human. Just add Coffee."

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Permalink Reply by Ginger Lewman on September 16, 2007 at 7:29am

I saw you had that and was cracking up! I was trying to figure out how I needed to adjust if for myself, since I don't drink much coffee... still haven't figured it out. I drink mostly water and that's so not funny.

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Permalink Reply by Britt Gow on June 1, 2008 at 1:38am

What about "70% water; 30% human"?

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Permalink Reply by Adrian Greig on September 16, 2007 at 5:00am

"It's not what the software does it's what the user does." http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/003940.html

and...

"In times of great change, the learners will inherit the earth while the learned will find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."
--Eric Hoffer

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Permalink Reply by Ginger Lewman on September 16, 2007 at 8:17am

oooh...another one I'm stealing from JohnPederson's Twits:

"Have we admired the problem long enough?"

I'm SO going to be using that in committee meetings and in SO many other areas. Let's MOVE FORWARD people!

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Permalink Reply by Chris Prout on September 20, 2007 at 6:50pm

We are all learners...
What have you learned today?
We are all teachers...
How have you helped someone learn today?
We are a community...
What have you shared today?

The first two are on a sign in my classroom. I first heard the " We are all learners, we are all teachers" quote at a presentation by Marc Prensky (I think). I added the questions to focus the thinking of myself, my students and those who enter my classroom. The third part dawned on me as I was writing this quote and will be added to my sign soon. What do you think?