"Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself"

-- Rick Pitino

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“It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage of art is not that which seeks for the pleasures of sentiment in a vague ideality, nor for beauty of form in a marble image, but that which educates your children into living heroes, and binds down the flights and the fondnesses of the heart into practical duty and faithful devotion.”
“Anyone who tells you money can't buy happiness never had any.”
“In a thousand years, archeologists will dig up tanning beds and think we fried people as punishment.”

Source : Twitter post from May 14, 2011
“Learning is a consequence of thinking.”

Source : David Perkins (2008). “Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds”, p.185, Simon and Schuster
“What was more humiliating, I wondered: having to beg for someone's cold chicken bones or being offered them?”
“Scientific research involves going beyond the well-trodden and well-tested ideas and theories that form the core of scientific knowledge. During the time scientists are working things out, some results will be right, and others will be wrong. Over time, the right results will emerge.”

Source : "CERN or Einstein? Interpreting the Findings" by Lisa Randall, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2011.
“I feel hurt or attacked, jealousy or fear, what works for me is thinking of life as an adventure. This way, I remember that all these feelings or situations are part of a greater whole and that they need to be there to make life exactly what it is.”
“Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil.”

Source : "Editor in the spotlight" by William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2007.

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